By Bill Wilson — Writing for the New York Times recently , Berkshire Hathaway chairman and chief executive Warren Buffett called for taxes to be increased on the so-called “super-rich,” suggesting that he and his elite billionaire and millionaire friends are itching to pay more. Buffett wrote, “Most wouldn’t mind being told to pay […]

By Bill Wilson — A bilateral agreement between Finland and Greece has promised to give the Nordic nation €500 million collateral for its portion of the bailout of Greece’s creditors. Considering the risks, the call for collateral is hardly surprising — Athens’ credit rating is a mere […]

By Bill Wilson — The Obama Administration has turned to billionaire Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive of financial giant Berkshire Hathaway, to make the case for raising taxes on the rich because, says Buffett, he can afford it.  On Aug. 22, the White House reportedly chatted […]

By Bill Wilson – Texas Governor Rick Perry shook the political and financial establishment to the core on Aug. 16 with his comments criticizing the potential politicization of the Federal Reserve and the nation’s monetary policy. He said, “Printing more money to play politics at this particular […]

By Bill Wilson – Only now, nearly four years into the economic maelstrom of the financial crisis, do we see the real cost: national independence and sovereignty. It isn’t our money the Masters of the Universe want. It’s not land or other hard assets they crave. It’s […]

By Bill Wilson – Establishment elites are thrilled at the picks made for members of the so-called “Super Committee.” With all 12 members now public, detailed analysis has confirmed that these are “serious” men and women who can be counted on to produce a “reasonable” product that […]

By Bill Wilson – In an unusual move, the Federal Reserve on Aug. 9 announced that it intended to keep the Federal Funds Rate — the rate at which the Fed and banks lend to each other — at near-zero “at least through mid-2013”. The near-zero interest rates were instituted in Dec. 2008 as an emergency and, we thought, temporary measure to counteract […]

By Bill Wilson – Barack Obama is trying to reassure markets that somehow, his super-committee is going to seriously address the nation’s growing debt problem.  And he’s calling for more tax increases on job creators, and yet more deficit-spending that will fail to get the economy going […]

By Bill Wilson – On Wednesday, MSNBC’s Martin Bashir launched the most transparently biased and abusive segments yet against Tea Party activists. Not content to simply repeat the slurs of the usual suspects of the legacy media, Bashir out-did himself by trotting out one of the most […]

By Bill Wilson – Tolkien called it the “day the strength of men failed” when the people of Middle Earth failed to destroy the One Ring.  So it was with the votes to increase in the debt ceiling, as the American people have received little in exchange […]