Category: US Politics
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Protecting Your Wealth from Your Government / Personal_Finance / US Politics
By: DailyWealth
At DailyWealth, our major focus is on helping you grow your wealth as quickly and safely as possible...
For ideas on how to protect your wealth once you have it, I don't know anyone better than asset-protection attorney Joel Nagel.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Why Are Corporations Funding the Tea Party? / Politics / US Politics
By: Shamus_Cooke
Rank and file Tea Partiers are, politically speaking, lost at sea in the dead of night, looking for the light of common principles. On land, those manning right-wing lighthouses are broadcasting ideas loaded with hidden motives into this ocean of conservative public opinion. What the Tea Party will become is presently unknown; but those with an agenda will do their best to steer lost boats at sea in their direction, with potentially dangerous consequences.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
The Potential Death of the American Dream, Protect Your Wealth From the Government / Politics / US Politics
By: DailyWealth
Dr. Steve Sjuggerud writes: When I was a kid, the world was my oyster...
Some days, my buddies and I would go exploring in the woods. Other days, we'd play wiffle ball in Wade Welch's yard... or we'd play "kill the man with the ball" in Mike Bruner's yard.
Monday, April 12, 2010
The Best and Brightest Protect Greenspan and Betray the American People / Politics / US Politics
By: Fred_Sheehan
Alan Greenspan's reputation has a whiff of terminal decline after his appearance on April 7, 2010, before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission (FCIC). Prudence is warranted though, before taking a short position on the former Federal Reserve chairman. The celebrated central banker has spent a lifetime pouring his deep reservoirs of energy and ambition into his own advancement, and now, his legacy.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
The Realities of the Neo-Cons’ Multi Trillion Dollar War / Politics / US Politics
By: Mike_Stathis
You may have heard about the turkey shoots by U.S. military and mercenary groups (Blackwater) in Iraq. The problem is, a good deal of the “turkeys” are innocent Iraqi civilians, some of which are women and children.
Sunday, April 11, 2010
It's Time To Give the Republicans Hell / Politics / US Politics
By: Gary_North
"If you are in the hip pocket of any political party, prepare to be sat on." ~ Gary North
Getting your political agenda enacted into law, enforced by the Executive branch, and upheld by the courts.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
What Happens When We Don't See the Tipping Points / Politics / US Politics
By: Submissions
Bernard Weiner writes: Often in our busy daily lives, we miss the significance of a piece of news. Sometimes it's not until years later that we realize how very important that news event was in shifting the paradigm.
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Congress Is a Criminal Syndicate / Politics / US Politics
By: LewRockwell
The director of Trends Research Institute, Gerald Celente, comments on Congress taking a 2-week break while 200,000 American people may lose their unemployment benefits.
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Government and Gasoline / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
As we head into the summer driving season and gasoline prices are again creeping up, the administration has announced plans to explore opening up more off-shore areas for exploration and drilling. On the one hand this can be lauded as a positive step. On the other hand, it is too little, much too late to have any meaningful or long-term effect on what Americans pay at the pump any time soon, if at all.
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Monday, April 05, 2010
The Real Economic Consequences of Obama's Bank Tax Plan / Politics / US Politics
By: Money_and_Markets
Monty Agarwal writes: President Obama plans to introduce a fee on the largest banks in the country — those with assets greater than $50 billion — in an effort to get back “every single dime” for the taxpayers. This levy will start June 30 and aims to collect $90 billion over a course of 10 years.
Monday, April 05, 2010
The Urge to Save Humanity is Almost Always a False Front For the Urge to Rule / Politics / US Politics
By: James_Quinn
“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.” H.L. Mencken
Monday, March 29, 2010
Healthcare and Economic Realities / Politics / US Politics
By: Dr_Ron_Paul
With passage of last week's bill, the American people are now the unhappy recipients of Washington's disastrous prescription for healthcare "reform." Congressional leaders relied on highly dubious budget predictions, faulty market assumptions, and outright fantasy to convince a slim majority that this major expansion of government somehow will reduce federal spending. This legislation is just the next step towards universal, single payer healthcare, which many see as a human right. Of course, this "right" must be produced by the labor of other people, meaning theft and coercion by government is necessary to produce and distribute it.
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Friday, March 26, 2010
U.S.A. Going Insane Over Healthcare Reform Bill Passage / Politics / US Politics
By: Pravda
In the aftermath of passage of a comprehensive new health care reform bill, a wave of threats and violence has swept across the country. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer reports that some of his Democratic colleagues are being threatened with violence when they go back to their districts. He suggested that Republicans should stand up and condemn the threats.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Macro Effects of Healthcare Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act / Politics / US Politics
By: Paul_L_Kasriel
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) is too complex a piece of legislation for me to provide anything more than a broad-brush analysis of its macro impact to the U.S economy. From my understanding of it, the PPACA primarily represents a redistribution of income from the young and healthy to the under-65 less healthy. This is the implication of mandatory enrollment in a health insurance plan. Young healthy individuals will be induced to enroll in a health insurance plan, which will enlarge the risk pool with less risky participants, thereby lowering the health insurance premiums for the riskier members.
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Thursday, March 25, 2010
Doug Casey, U.S. Can Never Win the “War on Terrorism”, Investment Implications / Politics / US Politics
By: Casey_Research
Almost exactly three years before the 9/11 attacks, Doug Casey had one of his famous Guru Moments, writing in the September 1998 edition of the International Speculator:
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Government Authorities are Looking Out for Themselves - As Should Everyone / Politics / US Politics
By: Fred_Sheehan
"China in Midst of 'Greatest Bubble in History'", Bloomberg told readers on March 17, 2010. That was the opinion of certain experts interviewed by the news service. One expert held the opposite view: "'People making comments about bubbles possibly don't have all the facts,' HSBC Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Michael Georghegan said in Shanghai today. Regulators are in control of the banking industry, and have the ability to curb lending as needed, he said."
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
U.S. Healthcare, More Slight of Hand From Oboudini / Politics / US Politics
By: Butler_Shaffer
The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself ~ James Wolcott
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Obamacare and the Death of Detroit, the First U.S. City To Face Extinction / Politics / US Politics
By: Gary_North
To understand what is going to happen to America's health care delivery system, we must first understand what has happened to Detroit.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Socialized Medicine, The Road to Wealth Destruction / Politics / US Politics
By: Mac_Slavo
A recent Wall Street Journal article by Brett Arends titled Is Socialized Medicine Bad for Your Wealth? examines the impact of socialized medicine on your wealth and argues that it may not be so bad after all.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Defeat in Victory, the Democrats' Health Care Bill / Politics / US Politics
By: Shamus_Cooke
What looks like a big victory for Obama and the Democrats may be their greatest undoing. It’s true that the passage of Obama’s health care bill represents a significant political victory for the Democrats. But sometimes a battle won could equal a lost war.
It’s telling that Obama had so much trouble in getting his own party to pass the bill on a simple majority basis: the bill was so blatantly watered down with the corporate hose that anyone with their name attached to it feared future electoral doom.
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