Helping the West commit suicide

| October 17, 2009

Reuters is the vehicle for pro-euthenasia propaganda from Britain, where doctor-assisted suicide is supposedly gaining in popularity. The article gets into the financial aspect of socialized medicine part way through: “It is good holistic palliative care, not medical killing which is the answer to the real distresses of so many people when contemplating natural death,” […]

How to interpret trends

| October 16, 2009

Economic observers are split into two camps, doomsday prophets and cheerful global recoverists. We expect an unpredictable middle path with surprises, some ugly. We are less certain about the economy than we are about the global socialist takeover, which appears inevitable. Orient your thinking toward both scenarios and weigh your options from your unique position. […]

Unemployment rising

| October 12, 2009

On the Wall Street TV shows the talking heads agree that “the worst is over” as stock markets recover from the global financial crash. Their conventional wisdom is, now is a good time to get back into the market. Housing prices may be nearing a bottom, and manufacturing and trade are picking up again. The […]

How the Fed controls economists

| September 22, 2009

From The Huffington Post, a nice long investigative piece on how the Federal Reserve controls the opinions of economists. The banking cartel funds academic research in economics and selects its chosen disciples to join its elite club. Dissenting voices are frozen out of academic tenure and research grants. No one would dare write anything criticizing […]

The cap and trade takeover

| September 20, 2009

As you know by now, global average temperatures are cooling, not warming. The warmists have changed their language, abandoning global warming and adopting climate change as justification for their schemes. Newsbusters reports on the cooling trend and the plan to sue Al Gore and other alarmists.

The Rhode Island meets reality model

| September 15, 2009

If you are interested in recent economic stories and statistics, Doug Noland has a long blog on recent economic news at PrudentBear. There are signs of recovery as well as worsening. Noland’s important point is that the Fed cannot withdraw from support for mortgage loans without endangering the mortgage market and any recovery in housing […]

Overpaid bureaucrats

| September 11, 2009

Chris Edwards reports from the Cato Institute that government workers are overpaid by nearly 100 percent. Edwards proposes a federal wage freeze. A great idea, but why stop there? How about a 50 percent pay cut, across the board, to bring government salaries in line with the private sector? We wonder why the Democrats haven’t […]