Analysis Topic: Politics & Social Trends
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.Sunday, February 28, 2010
Ron Paul on the Real Culprit For the Financial Crisis / Politics / Fiat Currency
Ron Paul Blames the genesis of the Financial Collapse on when Nixon separated the Dollar from Gold that allowed Congress to run up unlimited deficits, the consequences of the lack of sound money led to the banking crash.
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Freedom and Truth, Leaps and Bounds / Politics / Mainstream Media
Libertarian, Anarcho-Capitalist, and Austrian economist’s, along with other freedom thinkers are aware of the state and their influence over the masses. The brainwashing that occurs every day is excessively sickening and the manner in which it’s done is even worse. Through the control of the mainstream media the state has for decade’s channeled false information from school history books, newspapers, journals, and television to lead us to believe into their scams. The only pollution in the air is that which comes from corrupt minds.
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Sunday, February 28, 2010
Reconcile This! / Politics / US Politics
Reconciliation is one of those words that sounds great when used in another country
Right-wing whites along with the rest of the world embraced South Africa’s peace and reconciliation process as a way to put apartheid crimes on the record without a punitive witch-hunt that would intensify racial and political tensions. Archbishop Desmond Tutu chaired a panel to hear evidence without the power to execute or imprison or execute wrongdoers.
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Friday, February 26, 2010
Obama Healthcare and Snow-cialism / Politics / US Politics
Vedran Vuk, Casey Research writes: There is a silver lining to every snowstorm - getting to know your neighbors both good and bad. With forty inches on my block this week, I've learned a lot about my neighbors and, strangely enough, socialism.
My corner of Baltimore seems like a good place to ride out a storm. After all, innumerable cars are plastered with Obama bumper stickers, and windows display signs like "Universal Healthcare Now." In essence, it's a very liberal neighborhood in an extremely liberal state. What better neighborhood to be in times of need, right?
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Friday, February 26, 2010
Economic and Social Crisis in America, Burglarious Stimulus / Politics / Economic Stimulus
Paul Volker has recently said, "Well, we’ve got a problem in governing in this country…, our inability to deal with very large evident problems is apparent."
Indeed we do, and the problem is not new. The problem became evident to many long before Mr. Volker's term as Chairman of the FED, and he, along with many others, are complicit in perpetuating it.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
China Wins the Battle of the Brains / Politics / Social Issues
Quick, name the top American colleges. Most Americans would tick off names like Harvard, Stanford, M.I.T., Rice, Vassar, Duke, University of California at Berkley, and our fantastic military academies.
How about foreign colleges? Oxford, Cambridge, McGill, The Sorbonne, University of Tokyo, University of Copenhagen, University of Zurich, Hebrew University of Israel, and Peking University are considered some of the best in the world.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Cut Government Spending by Cutting Public Sector Pay / Politics / Government Spending
Martin Hutchinson writes: It's fairly well known that the U.S. public sector is paid more than the private sector. What's less well known is that the gap between federal-employee pay and benefits and private-sector pay and benefits is increasing - by about 18% over the last decade.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Kurds Push for Oil Law with Baghdad Amid South’s Sudden Bright Future / Politics / Crude Oil
While the Iraqi government has made overtures to its Kurdish counterpart in the north to end an oil standoff, much remains in doubt without an actual law keeping the industry in check - rules which this time the Kurds are pressing for rather than Baghdad.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
The Bank of the Fed is Closed…Forever / Politics / Central Banks
In an effort to explain our escalating financial crisis, an American Nightmare (an Environmental Dream), the pundits are focusing their angst on the 44th POTUS, who might very well go down as the single most inept president in all of American history. (How to Squander the Presidency in One Year, David Michael Green)
Barack Obama is not inept, greedy or stupid and he isn’t one of “us”.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Britain May Provoke New Falklands War With Argentina / Politics / GeoPolitics
On February 22 two major developments occurred in the Americas south of the Rio Grande. The two-day Rio Group summit opened in Mexico and Great Britain started drilling for oil 60 miles north of the Falklands Islands, known as Las Malvinas to Argentina.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
The Criminal Economic Stimulus Package / Politics / Economic Stimulus
Wilt Alston writes: "It [the stimulus package] prevented things from getting much worse than they otherwise would have been. I think everyone would have to acknowledge that’s a good thing." ~ Nariman Behravesh, Global Insight’s Chief Economist
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Fed vs. Fed, Bankster Contradictions / Politics / Central Banks
Two events took place last week that would have been inconceivable a year ago. First, on February 20, Ron Paul won CPAC's straw poll for the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States in 2012. CPAC is the Conservative Political Action Conference. He routed Mitt Romney: 31% to 22%. Sarah Palin did far worse: 7%.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
21st Century U.S. Breakdown, Debt + Dollar + Delusion + Depletion = Decline / Politics / US Politics
“Wherever we’re headed, America is evolving in ways most of us don’t like or understand. Individually focused yet collectively adrift, we wonder if we’re heading toward a waterfall. Are we?”
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
I Am Worried about the Government Debt My Descendants Will Inherit / Politics / US Debt
This is a common concern I hear from seniors and even some enlightened baby boomers. (Yes, Virginia, there actually are some enlightened baby boomers!) Is this a legitimate concern? You betcha. The chart below shows actual per-capita gross federal debt through 2009 and the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) projected per-capita federal debt thereafter through 2020. In 2009, each of us was responsible for $38, 651 dollars of gross federal debt. By 2020, CBO projects each of us will be on the hook for $62, 808 of gross federal debt.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Is Ben Bernanke Smart Enough to Be a CEO? / Politics / Central Banks
By Vedran Vuk, Casey Research writes: Ben Bernanke has got to be laughing it up after being reappointed to another term as Federal Reserve chairman. What else could we expect from the ex-lawyers and lifetime Beltway bandits voting on global monetary policy?
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
A Parable About How One Nation Came to Financial Ruin / Politics / Global Financial System
While Warren Buffet gets all the press and is a media darling, his partner who works in shadows is a person I find much more interesting. Perhaps because Charlie Munger is one blunt son of a gun as we saw a year ago [May 3, 2009: Berkshire Hathaway's Charlie Munger Says 'Venal' Banks May Avoid Needed Reform]
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
US Super-rich Get Five Times More Income Than in 1995 / Politics / Social Issues
Andre Damon writes: The incomes of the very rich in the US grew phenomenally between 1992 and 2007, while their tax rates plummeted, according to recently uncovered IRS statistics.
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Monday, February 22, 2010
Solution to the Credit Crisis? The Campaign for State-owned Banks / Politics / Credit Crisis 2010
While bank bailouts fatten Wall Street, states continue to battle the credit crisis. In the search for innovative solutions, some political candidates are proposing that states generate their own credit by setting up their own banks.
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Sunday, February 21, 2010
Central Banks Are On the Defensive, Where's All the Gold? / Politics / Central Banks
All over the Western world, central banks are under pressure from their governments to inflate. Governments are not satisfied with short-term interest rates at historic lows, such as a federal funds rate of 0% to 0.25% in the United States. Politicians want rapid economic growth, and they are convinced that this is possible after a major recession only with more fiat money. In short, they have accurately understood the message of their college-level textbooks. This is what textbooks have been saying for over 50 years. This is the new, improved Keynesianism. Keynes focused on the need for large government deficits and increased government spending, not monetary inflation. The new Keynesianism wants large government deficits and lots of fiat money.
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Saturday, February 20, 2010
Miami's Municipal Woes (Again): Exiting Before the Tide Goes Out / Politics / US Debt
Miami's tradition of unruly official behavior is finally bringing painful consequences. After years of reckless financial management and a bribery scandal that produced federal charges against three top city officials, South Florida's largest city stands on the edge of bankruptcy."-Time, December 16, 1996, "Gloom Over Miami"
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