March 25, 2013 in Preview 2, THE ECONOMY
Texas Tribune | The idea isn’t entirely new. Some Republican members worked on a gold bill last session that was never filed. And gold-standard-backing Ron Paul, the former Texas congressman, has raised repeated concerns about the safety of states’ gold supplies.
March 6, 2013 in Preview, THE ECONOMY
Worldcrunch | One example is the case of HSBC bank, where $290 million of Mexican drug cartel money was laundered in four years, using travelers cheques – in a plot so complicated that it could have been written by the Wachowski brothers.
February 26, 2013 in Preview, Preview 3, THE ECONOMY
The Washington Examiner | It’s hard to hear yourself think over all the caterwauling on Capitol Hill about the looming sequestration “crisis.” For opponents of the spending cuts — at $85 billion, 2.3 percent of the $3.6 trillion federal budget…
February 25, 2013 in Preview, THE ECONOMY
MyGovCost.org | At what point does the size of a country’s national debt begin to weigh down the growth potential of its economy?
February 20, 2013 in POLITRICKS, Preview
The Liberty Crier | Paradigms are mega-systems of thought that explain certain realms of reality so as to shift mankind toward new visions. For example, mercantilism, Lockean limited government, species evolution, Pasteurian medicine…
February 7, 2013 in Preview, THE ECONOMY
Zero Hedge | Up until now, Argentina’s descent into a hyperinflationary basket case, with a crashing currency and loss of outside funding was relatively moderate and controlled. All this is about to change. Today, in a futile attempt to halt inflation…
January 31, 2013 in Preview 2, THE ECONOMY
Huffington Post | Top executives at three major companies that received taxpayer-financed bailouts received excessively generous pay packages last year, in an apparent violation of Treasury guidelines aimed at restricting their compensation…
January 29, 2013 in MEDIA, Preview
YouTube | The Only Three Minutes of Davos Worth Listening To: Olafur Ragnar Grimsson Iceland president ‘Let banks go bankrupt’
January 24, 2013 in Preview, THE ECONOMY
Bloomberg | More than $114 billion exited the biggest U.S. banks this month, and nobody’s quite sure why. The Federal Reserve releases data on the assets and liabilities of commercial banks every Friday.
January 23, 2013 in Preview, THE ECONOMY
Forbes | No doubt, you’ve heard about the latest irresponsible fiscal/monetary proposal to be floated by members of Congress and the erstwhile economist, Paul Krugman, whose lunch was just eaten by Jon Stewart. It entails having the Treasury avoid the federal debt limit…
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