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I wonder whether Lewis Lehrman is for a free market gold standard or a pseudo government gold standard. He doesn't call for getting rid of the central bank, and how can you support private mints but force them to adjust their currencies to some artificial value set by the government? i.e. set the price of gold at 1500 dollars an oz (steve forbes
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The bible prohibits interest. Could we also claim that interest is the cause of all this debt and fake money being built up over the last 40 years leading to the final straw that broke the camels back in 2008. That being said, how would interest free banks work in a free banking system. And is rothbard right when he says that fractional reserves are
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There is an origanization called the society of competitive intelligence professionals. But according to wikipedia competitive intelligence is the "action of defining, gathering, analyzing, and distributing intelligence about products, customers, competitors and any aspect of the environment needed to support executives and managers in making strategic
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should corporate espionage be illegal? Is it necessarily such a bad thing if one was paid to find out information about their competitors as long as he doesn't do things like steal trade secrets, trade on prohibited non proprietary information etc. Since everyone competes in the marketplace, what is the problem with figuring out how a company is
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So I read the rebels document detailing how their government would function. It goes something like this. The state will do this; the state will do that; guarantee the "right" to medical care, education, and other state services. There is also some element of sharia (or mixing religon and government theocracy). But since democracy is basically
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Wasn't communism a preceding step before WWI? But the Bolsheviks already extended their clout far beyond russia. I also would have thought that since WWI created hyper inflation, that maybe something similar to Hitler would have come to power because the "allies" and "axies" both printed alot of money in order to fight each other
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Lets say that President Wilson never took us into WWI, or someone else was president and did the same. Because of the czar Nicholas in Russia, was it inevitable that the Bolsheviks would win versus the white army or was it that WWI was a sort of "straw that broke the camels back" and the shot that would follow? would WWII have happened if
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What you are saying makes a lot of sense but I honestly think that while the protest seems genuine, it really is a gathering of far left voters to try to support israel's far left political parties. The other problem is is that since socialism is so indocrinated in the country due to how the country was founded, I don't really feel any optimism
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Has anybody paid attention (meaning read the bill S 23) to this so called "patent reform" which would switch the system to a first to file system. What difference does it make? There is no way you can reform the patent system unless you dramatically reduce the time involved (i.e. copyright to 3-5 years say, and patents the same time). I ideally
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Marky, get your facts straight man. Where is your evidence that "they use more illegal weapons than the US"? And where did you get this from Al jazzera? Al Jazzera is one of the biggest propoganda outlets in the history of the world, and will do anything to stir up tensions. And last time I checked it was the arab autocrats that started the