The productive elements of the US economy are caught between powerful financial interests, e.g., banks seeking speculative gains, political constituencies seeking entitlements and government entities at all levels whose budgets and deficits are too large compared to their revenues. All three factions...
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Ron Hera
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Mon, Jul 19 2010
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Filed under: Federal reserve, debt, GDP, Asia, Asian Tigers, China, central bank, Federal Budget, unemployment, Deindustrialization, Bailouts, Capitalism, Corporatism, Trade Deficit, Socialism, Totalitarianism, Offshoring, Outsourcing, Service Economy
This week we are celebrating the 20th Anniversary of one of the 20th Century's most shining moments - the Fall of the Berlin Wall. A barrier that represented far more than an edifice of concrete and steel. The Berlin Wall represented a rift across Europe and a major ideological divide between East...
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FutbolGuru
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Tue, Nov 10 2009
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Filed under: Lemmings, socialism, capitalism, Freedom, Republican, democrat, Ronald Reagan, Nancy Pelosi, Berlin Wall, Harry Reid, totalitarianism, Communist, Barack Obama, lemming, liberalty, opperssion