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"Fiat Money In Death Throes
One of the best articles I've ever read. If the gold standard for currency is so bad then why are so many of the other world governments backing up their currency with gold? At the current rate of inflation, world devaluation of our fiat money (Money that the government declares to be legal tender although it cannot be converted into standard specie) our US$ will be cheaper to use than toilet paper. _______ FIAT MO...
Jun 19, 2009, 9:39 am - konane

"That worrying wall of debt
That worrying wall of debt By Vipal Monga Source TheDeal.com Published June 5, 2009 at 11:59 AM The leveraged loan market got accustomed to big numbers over the past decade. There's $3.6 trillion, the amount of leveraged loans made since 2000, according to Thomson Reuters' Loan Pricing Corp. There's 735-fold, the amount of growth between 2003 and 2007 in the volume of collateralized loan obligations -- the funds that helped fue...
Jun 17, 2009, 5:22 pm - konane

Easy Day or Lazy Day?
I've had enough lazy days lately, just trying to get motivated cleaning my house and all the busy work. Now that my last child has grauated high school, I can move on from the past and concentrate more on me. And one of the things I love to do is work with the numbers in the lotto. I like to work with the pick-5 game here in my state's game the MI 5/39 cause of the low odds. And I'm going to try and capture the Jackpot with the methods I've been studying using Gail Howards Soft...
Jun 8, 2009, 6:04 pm - L J1

Laos and Indonesia and East Asia...Please listen to me...
What is Indonesia, Laos, Phillipines, and South Korea Cambodia...You need to construct Lots of tall buildings as housing....You can't go building houses, you all have very small space....You need to find like a East Asian Lotto Stock Exchange or some kind of stock exchange that will pay lots of money and tax it 65%, then the revenue you use it to create projects in each of the East Asian Countries, maybe this is far into the future but stuff like a bridge that will connect you...
Mar 30, 2009, 4:07 am - pumpi76

Govt. Healthcare.
What is Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA Health System? Do young, healthy, people that don't need healthcare or want to pay for it, pay involuntarily? What about dental and eyecare? If the govt. gets involved anymore in the healthcare business it'll be a bottomless pit for money thrown away. The panacea of a nationalized electronic medical record (EMR) is a hoax to create further depedence on govt. and have the govt. making healthcare...
Feb 25, 2009, 8:20 am - jarasan

"UN Blowback: More Than 650 International Scientists Dissent Over Man-Made Global Warming Claims
Follow the MONEY trail to Global Carbon Tax collected by the UN , bank$ trading carbon credit$, industries $pawned from government mandate$ and more governmental constraints on our everyday lives. Plant trees. _____________...
Dec 10, 2008, 12:29 pm - konane

"Senator Stealth
Senator Stealth How to advance radical causes when no one s looking. By Stanley Kurtz Source National Review Online AUTHOR'S NOTE: When I wrote Senator Stealth, just over two months ago, it still seemed realistic to expect that its revelations might stimulate press follow-up. After all, the Wright affair had occasioned significant media interest. Since Senato...
Nov 2, 2008, 10:56 am - konane

Why More Drilling is Not the Answer
Submitted by Michael Moynihan on Thu, 06/19/2008 - 8:44am. Of the various false solutions being proposed to the current oil shockperhaps none is more disingenous than the idea that it can be solved bydrilling in the Alaskan wilderness and along the continental shelf.This is the idea that the right wing media, recently, John McCain andnow...
Jun 19, 2008, 4:45 pm - Tenaj

Work - And Some Thoughts About It...
Gruntwork part of Phase III virtually complete. I still have to perform display error checks on some of the existing files but that'll be easy enough. The data is sound. I'll be preparing the files for uploading over the weekend. .pdf files will have to wait - about two months before their completion - but the HTML files will be sent and posted. Actual generation of the .pdf files may bec...
May 16, 2008, 2:07 pm - johnph77

Ron Paul on Eliot Spitzer
Ron Paul on Eliot Spitzer: He acted badly but didn't deserve this: By John Bresnahan Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas), he of the quixotic GOP presidential campaign and unique policy positions, is never one to be shy about his opinions. Take the case of fallen New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D), whose political career fell apart this week after his liais...
Mar 17, 2008, 5:32 pm - time*treat