Category: Economics

March 15, 2010

Nancy Pelosi Sums Up what is Wrong with the Democratic Led Congress and Barack Obama in One Sentence

Nancy Pelosi addressed the 2010 Legislative Conference for the National Association of Counties earlier this week. With her vacuous hyperbole, Pelosi confirmed, yet again, that she and Maxine Waters are cerebrally indistinguishable from cork. Being a fervid pursuant of the …

December 12, 2009

Duct Tape Economics

Filed under: Economics, Liberalism, Marxism & Communism - 12 Dec 2009

Remember last fall when you used some duct tape to “repair” the flashing on your chimney instead of calling a professional roofer. You don’t? How about noticing the stains on the ceiling and the water running down the wall above …

December 8, 2009

The Goldfinger Plot

Filed under: Economics, Featured Conservative - 08 Dec 2009

In arguably the greatest James Bond movie of all, “Goldfinger,” Auric Goldfinger, played marvelously by Gert Frobe, planned to increase the value of his gold by setting off a small dirty nuclear bomb inside Fort Knox, rendering the gold there …

December 5, 2009

Bunkum-Babbling Ben Bernanke

Filed under: Economics, Featured Conservative - 05 Dec 2009

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke is a devotee of Keynesian economics, which is to say that he is incapable of learning from experience. Either he can’t comprehend that the Fed’s excessive fiat money creation always precedes bubbles of economic …

December 2, 2009

The Turkey That Is Obamanomics

Thanksgiving day progressed in somewhat the usual manner, sleeping in; savoring our coffee; reading the news; putzing around on the computer; and at least one of us (me) working out in anticipation of moderating the inevitable consequences of splurging on …

November 24, 2009

Barney Frank’s Ship Continues to Sink into Oblivion

Just two months prior to the American economic meltdown, Congressman Barney Frank was still swearing the solvency of Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac to a Bush Administration that had requested more than 15 times an investigation into the financial standing …

November 23, 2009

Be a Squeaky Wheel

Remember those speeches President Obama made about the importance of getting things done quickly? No time to waste? We hesitate at our peril?

November 11, 2009

America Needs Industry, Obama Needs Therapy

More so than any other time in our history, Americans are beginning to believe there are no solutions to the many crises that we are experiencing.

November 6, 2009

Government As Narcotics Dealer

Filed under: Economics - 06 Nov 2009

Since the advent of the Federal Reserve System in 1913, monetary authorities have repeatedly upped the narcotic dosage as a remedy for the pains of easy money and credit addiction.

November 5, 2009

Obamacare is Bad Medicine

Filed under: Economics, Liberalism, Marxism & Communism - 05 Nov 2009

It’s so simple that a six year old should be able to understand it, you can’t spend over a trillion dollars and expect to lower your debt, a first grader can figure this simple principle out. If you spend a …

October 14, 2009

Bitten By Profligacy

Foreign central banks, suffering from the Treasury and Fed-engineered decline in the dollar’s value, are moving new currency reserve investments from the dollar into Euros and Yen.

October 11, 2009

A view of what has happened to the purchasing power of the dollar in our lifetime

Filed under: Economics - 11 Oct 2009

By: Ben Cerruti

I ran across this graph at http://www.campaignforliberty.com which I think every American should view. A picture is worth a thousand words and this one illustrates what the Federal Reserve System, aided and abetted by the Federal Government’s …

September 23, 2009

Keynesianism Loves the Total State

Filed under: Economics, Liberalism, Marxism & Communism - 23 Sep 2009

Keynesian macroeconomics, the mythology favored by liberal-progressives ranging from President Obama to New York Times propagandist Paul Krugman, is a rationalization for massive expansion of deficit spending and socialization of the entire economy.

September 10, 2009

Basic Economics We All Need To Understand

Filed under: Economics - 10 Sep 2009

By Ben Cerruti

Reading what follows may be of help if you are one who would like to have a better understanding of what the recent and future actions of our government may have on our economic future.

September 8, 2009

Labor Day: A Tribute To Highway Robbers

Filed under: Economics, Featured Conservative - 08 Sep 2009

Labor Unions are a throwback to the days of travel by horseback, when highwaymen fell upon lone travelers, beating them and robbing them of their possessions. Unions still have the ambivalent status of thugs, to their victims, and Robin …

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