Category Archives: Economics

Banks Pressured To Buy Government Debt…Time Bomb?

In a move that is likely to blow up in their collective faces, financial regulators are putting pressure on banks to buy government bonds, i.e. toxic government debt. From Jeff Cox, Senior Writer @ CNBC… Banks Pressured To Buy Government … Continue reading

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Potential Good News For Obama In Indiana But Trouble In NC

This past Tuesday, Indiana Republicans decided that their longtime senator, Richard Lugar, need not return to Washington, D.C., after serving six terms. GOP voters chose another candidate, conservative Tea Party hopeful Richard Mourdock, to run against Democrat challenger Joe Donnelly … Continue reading

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Underground Real Estate Boom: Doomsday Shelters

“Since the beginning of recorded history, we have had about 18,000 wars and we’re still counting. So, the question is, has human nature changed?” From Andrew Horansky with KVUE News: Walton McCarthy, President of Radius Engineering International, Terrell, TX, employs … Continue reading

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Economic Myths, Fallacies & Stupidity

From Walter E. Williams @ Human Events: Economic Myths, Fallacies & Stupidity In the market, when a firm fails to please its customers and fails to earn a profit, it goes bankrupt, making those resources available to another that might … Continue reading

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World Collapse Explained In Three Minutes

From YouTube, via Campaign For Liberty: Video The world economic collapse explained in 3 minutes. This is hysterical…and sad.

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Social Security’s Nest Egg Is Officially Cracked

By Bob Adelmann @ The New American (originally published on 03-16-2010): In a misleading article by Associated Press writer Stephen Ohlemacher (covered in The Washington Examiner on March 15, 2010) that IOUs “stashed away” in an investment account in Parkersburg, … Continue reading

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