The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Best of Intentions, Good Individual Effort, February 20, 2010 Anne-Marie Slaughter Now that my own book INTELLIGENCE for EARTH: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainaabilty is at the printer am back into reading and really looking forward to catching up with the 25 books on my “to do” shelf. This one jumped to the top of …
First Base: The Eurozone worked very well to increase the economic welfare of its poorer members during the economic expansion of 2002-2008, but it is becoming increasingly clear that the interconnected character of the economies of Eurozone, together with the sacrifice of sovereign currencies in favor of the Euro managed by the European Central Bank, …
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Politicians love to talk about cutting taxes in order to stimulate the economy and create jobs, but do tax cuts really trigger economic growth? Let’s look at the federal government’s tax take. The attached chart portrays the portrays how each category of taxes changed as a percentage of the Federal Government’s total tax receipts since …
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Welcome to Qaedastan: Yemen’s coming explosion will make today’s problems seem tame. Yemen has so many dire problems that it’s easy to be overwhelmed. Al Qaeda is growing in prominence, a Shiite rebellion is expanding in the north, and the threat of secession is renewed in the south. There’s a brewing fight over what comes …
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TO SAVE HAITI, FIRE GEN. “BROWNIE” KEEN, START AIR DROPS, CANCEL THE DEBT, AND KICK OUT THE IMF By Webster G. Tarpley Washington, DC, January 17, 2010 — Just over five days or 120 hours after a major earthquake hit the area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, it is increasingly clear that the US approach to organizing …
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In the coming months, we are going to be inundated by the rhetoric surrounding an economic policy debate over the question of whether or not the Federal Government ought to begin to reduce the fiscal imbalances in its budget. The ideology of Joseph Schumpeter’s Creative Destruction will be pitted against ideology of John Maynard Keynes, …
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I doubt it, but hope springs eternal could this be a significant development? To date, Simon Johnson has been a very astute observer of the financial meltdown and has been crusading for breaking up the mega banks … Paul Volcker Picks Up A Bat Simon Johnson Baseline Scenario Dec 17, 2009 For most the past 12 …
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