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[quote user="K.C. Farmer"] Remember the food pyramid the US Government was pushing? The current understanding of human metabolism and nutrition has proven the food pyramid not only to be unhealthy, but a recipe for obesity. Thank you FDA! Government intervention won't work. First, they use bad science or pseudoscience. Second, they are
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Oops. Sorry for the repeat. I did a quick search but missed the earlier thread.
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Anarchists should be reported, advises Westminster anti-terror police http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jul/31/westminster-police-anarchist-whistleblower-advice?INTCMP=SRCH Islamist terrorists also mentioned in briefing, as anarchists complain of being criminalised for their beliefs Robert Booth guardian.co.uk , Sunday 31 July 2011 19.14 BST Anarchists
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I can't take any credit for the question above, as it was from a post by Ironman at Political Calculations over at Seeking Alpha. He in turn had "stolen" the topic from Washington's Blog . But I thought it was an interesting and timely topic & thought I'd repost some of it here: Has the U.S. Become a Banana Republic? http:
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[quote user="John James"] [quote user="JeffB"]Thanks for that tip as well. It'll probably come in handy in the future.[/quote] No problem. Got one more for you...it'll help you with quoting .[/quote] Thanks! My problems with the quoting seem to be intermittent. I've had it work before, but last night I couldn't get
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[quote user="Modus Tollens"] ... Nominal spending remains depressed. We need more money.[/quote] I think Roger W. Garrison , Professor of Economics at Auburn University, has a great Power Point presentation on YouTube on "Capital Based Macroeconomics" that shows why we're in the economic dire straights we're in now: www.youtube
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[quote user="Caley McKibbin"] Some " squeeze" that is..[/quote] Thanks for that link! I had been looking for something that could generate the TMS. I thought I had seen some data on a website somewhere, but it hadn't been updated in a few years or so.
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[quote user="Rcder"] Theoretically the Federal Reserve could choose to stop expanding credit and let interest rates rise. They're a relatively independent government institution, so Bernanke and his ilk would be insulated from the mood swings of popular democracy.[/quote] I think your are right that the Fed could theoretically stop expanding
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As I understand it you are exactly right. It is illegal for the Fed to purchase treasuries directly . But I've seen at least one article on ZeroHedge that showed the Fed was purchasing many of them within 3 hours of issuance from dealers which could be shown by the (serial?) numbers. There have been similar articles on Seeking Alpha. Professor Antal
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[quote user="Neodoxy"] 2. How is "real inflation", as you say, different from that which the feds calculate?[/quote] I know that the site, Shadow Stats takes issue with a lot of government statistics. Here's a page that gives their reasons for disputing official U.S. inflation figures . There are certainly people who dispute