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Why I'm (Cautiously) Optimistic About the Future

The proposed health care looks an awful lot like directive 10-289. I would be more optimistic if our leaders would hurry up and stand there and quit "helping" us.

Paulson's Plan Fails to Understand the Problem; Madoff Is a Perfect Example

To be fair, why not have divided the 8 tril among every citizen over 18 as a"national" dividend. Why bother with banks and infrastructure smoke and mirrors. At least this way some of the confiscated capital would be correctly invested.

Fiat Money and a Profligate Congress: A Bad Combination

Money in the exclusive control of government will be debased in some way, always. Private money is the only sound money of a free society.

It's Time for the Fed to Get Serious - Barron's

Great comments and the Fed is not merely a powerful lobby but the engine for more federal government and the eventual international control of much of these US affairs. Selling the US constitution can hardly be called either bashful or virginal.


On Nov 30 10:32 AM Asbytec wrote:

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> debt. And those ways are inline with our constitution, with the government
> (congress) coining and setting the price of money.
>
> But, I just don't see that happening. If you think the lobby is powerful,
> wait till you try messing with the folks who run the banking system.
> What I do see happening is the tight regulation or elimination of
> legalized gambling and insurance functions that are not and never
> should be part of any banking system.