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The Reagan Counterrevolution

Nov 07, 2008 at 00:00

In 1980, when the U.S. economy was last in serious trouble, Ronald Reagan offered the correct diagnoses that government was the problem and not the solution. His message resonated with…

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Hell, Meet Handbasket

Nov 07, 2008 at 00:00

Currently, we find ourselves in a mess that many are calling the most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression. If not worse. A mile-high mountain of paper profits has…

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Greenspan and the Gold Standard: Thinking Out Loud

Nov 07, 2008 at 00:00

I wish some Congressman would have had the courage to ask Greenspan why he abandoned his principles he so eloquently (and correctly) wrote about in 1966 before becoming a government…

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Stock Bull Being Born?

Nov 07, 2008 at 00:00

With the election of a new President, it was an important week for the financial markets. Whether you were part of the 53% of Americans who voted for Obama or…

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Merk Economic Calendar: Week Ahead in U.S. Financial Markets (November 10-14 2008)

Nov 07, 2008 at 00:00

The week ahead in financial markets will see a modest quantity of data that will hit the tapes largely on Thursday and Friday. The major market moving events will be…

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More Fois Gras, Mr. Goose?

Nov 07, 2008 at 00:00

I say, I say, I say - Did you hear about the joke of a central banker...?

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Warren Buffett Likes Warrants

Nov 07, 2008 at 00:00

The legendary Warren Buffet is doing a great favor for investors by bring the investment term warrants back into the limelight.

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Will Fortune Favour The Brave In This Climate?

Nov 07, 2008 at 00:00

FORTUNE is said to favour the brave, but is it bold or foolhardy to venture back yet into bombed-out equity and other financial markets? A panel of investment veterans assembled…

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The Incredible Growing Government

Nov 07, 2008 at 00:00

And now that the governments of America have literally become the economy (and paying themselves handsomely in the process!), there is no way that the government can be allowed to…

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Monetary Reform: Gold And Bills Of Exchange

Nov 07, 2008 at 00:00

The Great Depression of the 1930's was not due to the 'contractionist propensities' of the gold standard as alleged by John M. Keynes. Nor was it due to fractional reserve…