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On: 10/15/2010 08:27:29 In: Monetary Policy ALG Editor’s Note: In the following featured column from the Asia Times , economists Hossein Askari and Noureddine Krichene reveal the unintended consequences of the Federal Reserve’s easy money policy: Bernanke sets the world on fire By Hossein Askari and Noureddine Krichene United States Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke recently […]

On: 10/10/2010 21:56:58 In: Economy By Robert Romano It was not so long ago, in 2008, that the commodities bubble was rocking the American economy. Oil marched upward almost every day, peaking at close to $150 a barrel . Right before that, gold had proceeded to over $1,000 an ounce . The American people were getting killed at the pump, with gasoline peaking at over $4 a gallon . There was […]

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On: 10/26/2010 08:40:12 In: Uncategorized By David Bozeman Yes, that Warren Harding. November 2nd marks the birthday of the historians’ perennial choice for the worst president ever. Tea Partiers are embracing the folksy, budget-cutting Calvin Coolidge, who assumed office upon Harding’s death in 1923, but only […]

On: 10/20/2010 08:54:32 In: Fiscal Responsibility Video by Frank McCaffrey

On: 10/14/2010 09:09:11 In: Economy By Howard Rich No public official has been more integrally involved in the federal government’s “Great Intervention” than U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Over the course of three years (and two administrations), Bernanke has aggressively and successfully lobbied for trillions […]

On: 10/07/2010 18:17:41 In: Monetary Policy By Bill Wilson With sideways economic growth and persistently high unemployment, the Federal Reserve and other Keynesian economists have been obsessed with 1930’s-style “deflation.” Since the end of 2008, and in the wake of the financial crisis, the nation’s central bank has been […]

On: 10/04/2010 22:40:52 In: Uncategorized By Robert Romano Are U.S. taxpayers helping China to modernize its armed forces via interest payments owed on the national debt? Every year, the U.S. pays out substantial interest on its now $13.6 trillion national debt. In 2010, those interest payments totaled $203 billion based on the latest numbers , some $15 billion more […]