I've been hearing some direct talking points from Ron Paul these days, rather than just hearing them through others (i.e., debates and interviews, instead of just the high level "he's libertarian" analysis ( Read more... )

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This is something I've been saying for how long now? And I based it both on principle and on facts.

We need to make things. Without making, you merely export all of your resources and end up as slaves to the people who are making things. Read: us being slaves to China and India. India ends up being slaves to anyone who ( Read more... )

A lot of people have been posting about bailout issues. Hell, it is essentially the most important thing happening in our world today ( Read more... )

I've talked about hemmoraging value before. I've talked about certain types of protectionism before. I haven't talked about the concept of paying taxes voluntarily as being patiotic. I won't go into that specific concept at the moment.

What I will talk about is this storyLong and short? 34.1% worldwide tax rate last year for an American ( Read more... )

I will be accused by certain colleagues in my various endeavors as betraying ideals. I will be accused of losing sight of fear of socialism. I have been. I will be accused by persons who believe in the hand up of being cold. I have been. I will be accused of fierce independence. But I do not fit in any box ( Read more... )

I now recreate the welfare state. Watch me ( Read more... )

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=081015152055.72llwkbo&show_article=1Read more... )

A dear friend e-mailed me a link to a Wall Street Journal opinion piece entitled A Capitalist Manifesto. It makes some good points. Over all, I feel like some uber-capitalists are not placing the emphasis in the right places. They are right about the role of government and that the current situation is not solved by keeping big banks from ( Read more... )

I wish I could post along with this information about persuasion thery, but no time: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=the-certainty-biasRead more... )

I've been keeping quiet over this whole economy thing. Mostly because I get that this is a liquidity issue, and that the securities that are "troubled" are so because of a failure of the secondary market, not because of the underlying security. In other words, the problem is that short term costs make it so that people would normally borrow money ( Read more... )