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Donald:  How To Succeed as President 

12 Nov

What the hell do you have to lose?  Replace American’s failed welfare-warfare state with liberty and free enterprise.  The American people will thank you and people around the world will thank you.  

[Originally published July 17, 2016.)

Source: 7 Things Trump Must Do

 

Is Trump Going to be The Patsy?

11 Nov

“2017 is going to be a bumpy ride, and Trump will make a great scapegoat for what the elite have in store.”

Source: “He Won Because The Elites WANT HIM There, The Global Economy WILL Collapse”

 
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Posted in Business cycle, Central banks, Crony capitalism, Donald Trump, Federal Reserve, U.S. Dollar, Warfare state, Welfare state

 

Trump Needs to Read This Essay

10 Nov

Must reading for members of Congress, too.

“According to some commentators the US federal budget deficit still remains a major economic problem notwithstanding that it draws less attention than in the past.”

Source: How Government Budget Deficits Make Us Poorer

 

Inflation is here

30 Oct

“Over the last 20 years, the things that are the most important to us, such as healthcare, education, food, and shelter, have skyrocketing prices.”

Source: Prices Are Skyrocketing, But Only For Things You Really Need

 
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Posted in Economy, Federal Reserve, Inflation, Welfare state

 

The Federal Reserve’s assault on the bottom 95% of Americans

30 Oct

“Central banks seeking to boost inflation are waging financial war on the bottom 95% of households.”

Source: The Disaster Of Inflation… For The Bottom 95%

 
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Posted in Business cycle, Crony capitalism, Economy, Federal Reserve, Inflation, Money

 

Robert Wenzel dissects the ATT/Time Warner deal

25 Oct

Is this the top of the stock market?  

 
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Posted in Business cycle, Debt, Economy, Federal Reserve

 

Prices ready to take-off?

24 Oct

“Those who are capable of tyranny are capable of perjury to sustain it.” ― Lysander Spooner We all know the BLS artificially suppresses the CPI through bullshit substitution adjustments, quality adjustments, and various other incomprehensible hedonic adjustments made by government apparatchiks at the behest of their politician bosses. Some obscure theoretical academic  calculation called owners…”

Source: INFLATION ABOUT TO EXPLODE HIGHER

 
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Posted in Economy, Federal Reserve, Inflation

 

 Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon

20 Oct

“Say what you want about Donald J. Trump, but he is correct about one thing: the Federal Reserve has, with near certainty, been holding interest rates down for political purposes — namely, to aid Hillary Clinton in getting elected president of the United States.”

Source: The Federal Reserve Is Hillary Clinton’s Secret Weapon

 
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Posted in Banks, Economy, Federal Reserve, Hillary Clinton

 

Trump’s Missed Opportunities… Hillary’s left-wing agenda and warmongering

20 Oct

Since it’s midterm time let me give each candidate a letter grade for last night’s debate performance. Donald gets a B- and Hillary gets her usual F, for her collectivist ideology, trickle-down economics, and continued warmongering.

Donald missed several opportunities to hit a grand slam for the night, which would’ve turned his performance into an A+. Let me explain.

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Bull or bear market ahead?

17 Oct

“Last Monday, I discussed why you should be worried about corrections due to the damage inflicted upon your investment capital and the time required to “get back…”

Source: Past Is Prologue: New Secular Bull Or A Repeat Of The 70’s | RIA

 
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Posted in Business cycle, Debt, Economy, Federal Reserve, Interest rates, Stock market

 

Stockman’s new book, Trumped, reviewed by Justin Raimondo

17 Oct

I have started reading David Stockman’s new book last week.  It is everything Raimondo says it is.  Read it.  

“I have to admit to being alternately puzzled and depressed that I seemed to be the only libertarian with a major public platform to take a nuanced view of Donald Trump. After all, many of his foreign policy positions echo the libertarian critique of our interventionist foreign policy – and his enemies are, in large …”

Source: Trumped! – Antiwar.com Original by — Antiwar.com

 

The importance of free-market interest rates

15 Oct

“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” Thomas Sowell

Source: Interest Rates and the Marshmallow Test | Mises Wire

 
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Posted in Banks, Business cycle, Central banks, Economy, Federal Reserve, Free markets, Interest rates

 

The three bubbles

13 Oct

“The chaos that will arise as trillions of dollars, yen, yuan and euros, etc. try to crowd through the fire exits as the asset bubbles pop will be monumental, and the spikes in small asset class prices as the hot money floods in will be equally monumental.”

Source: Where Will The Money Go When All Three Market Bubbles Pop?

 
 

The anti-people central bankers

13 Oct

“The media has again begun focusing on the fact that most Americans surveyed have less than $1,000 in their savings accounts.”

Source: Thanks to Central Banks, Saving Rates Are Declining Worldwide | Mises Wire

 
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Posted in Banks, Business cycle, Central banks, Federal Reserve, Free markets, Interest rates

 

Maybe Fed officials were talking about the election off the record to each other at the water cooler.

13 Oct

“The November election apparently was not a discussion topic during the central bank’s September meeting.”

Source: Sorry, Donald Trump, but the Fed isn’t talking politics

 
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Posted in Federal Reserve, Interest rates, Presidential campaign