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Why Buy Gold?

Sure, I could justify my recommendation to buy physical gold with all kinds of jargon and thought experiments. But I will spare you. The real reason I think everyone should get his or her little pot of gold (just in time for St. Patty’s Day) is this: You have to ask yourself, “Does Ben Bernanke […]

Holy Tax Increase, Batman!

This ABC News story (HT2EPJ) gives the breakdown of the $989 billion in new taxes under Obama’s budget forecast for 2010-2019. (Keep in mind folks that the federal government’s fiscal year starts on October 1. So that’s why the upcoming ten-year forecast starts in “2010.” Right now we are in the middle of Fiscal Year […]

The Bailout Mascot

Mitche Hunt emailed me a description of the bailout mascot, and Google pulled up this page at the top. I think that’s the original source but not sure… Anyway: The United States government today announced that it is changing its national symbol to a CONDOM because it more accurately reflects the governments political stance. A […]

Very Funny Commenter Points Out Matrix Bloopers

This guy really cracks me up. If you watch it, then come back and watch it again in a day, he is even funnier. Do you think that is really his accent, or is it an American doing a Borat/Siskel/Saget merge? What’s great is now that people have seen how easily you can bring traffic […]

Mankiw Nails the China Bashing

Back when Treasury Secretary Geithner was telling China to stop “manipulating” its currency, I was puzzled: Didn’t that mean he wanted them to stop buying US Treasurys, and hence push up US interest rates and consumer prices? (Robert Wenzel over at EPJ was saying this too, I believe, but I don’t have the link handy.) […]

What If Obama Is Sincerely Wrong?

To those readers who want to nurse their hatred of politicians, I want to raise the possibility that Barack Obama actually believes his stimulus plan is a good idea. Don’t get me wrong, he knows full well all the political back deals and payoffs it contains. But I am entertaining the possibility that he actually […]

Bob Higgs No Fan of the Government

Straight-shootin Bob Higgs learns us all a lesson about fiscal responsibility at LRC today. But before I give you Higgs’ funny conclusion, you need to know what he is responding to. At first I was going to just paraphrase, but folks, you really have to read this New York Times article describing the government’s latest […]

Toward an Understanding of the Old Testament God

I try to make a religiously themed post every Sunday, but my other work took over my weekend. (I shudder to think what that says about my priorities, I know.) For today’s post I want to move toward an understanding–i.e., I am not claiming I actually have it yet–of how the God of the Old […]