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Showing posts with label banking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label banking. Show all posts
Friday, February 12, 2016

De Tocqueville on Progressivism and Presidential Power

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I have been rereading Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America ; the translation is by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop.  It i...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

Ownership of the Federal Reserve Bank

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An anonymous poster asked me about the ownership of the Federal Reserve Bank and without doing a lot of research I found an interesting pos...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Sweden Is A Backward, Authoritarian Land

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Someone brought up Sweden recently. The socialist American media is biased in its reporting on Sweden so it is difficult to find factual inf...
Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Decentralization, Banking and the Two Party System

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The American party system has changed four times, and three of the changes were linked to money and banking. Moreover, three of the changes ...
Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Henry Clay and the Panic of 1819

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Henry Clay was the founder of the Whig Party and Abraham Lincoln's mentor. The Whig Party was antecedent to today's Republican Party...
Friday, January 23, 2009

The Banking System Has Caused Economic Slowdown

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The consensus argument (which is often wrong) is that the banking system has caused the current economic malaise. In general, recessions and...
Saturday, September 27, 2008

The Bailout Debate: Disgraceful Failure of American Democracy

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The following questions should be addressed before there is further talk of a bailout for banks and insurance companies. 1. What was the rol...
Monday, August 25, 2008

Barack Obama and the Inflation Lobby

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There is a considerable degree of media deception about the causes of the recent run up in oil and commodities prices and decline of the dol...
Monday, October 22, 2007

Howard S. Katz's "The Guy Who Pays Is You"

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Howard S. Katz has an excellent blog this week at http://thegoldbugnet.blogspot.com . Katz argues that the banks' plan to bail out the s...