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Early support of the Fed´s QE programs, Andrew Huszar, has just come around and recognized what some of us have known for a long time. Quantitative easing has done nothing to help Main Street and has become "the greatest backdoor Wall Street bailout of all time.”

The Fed´s bond buying program was supposed to increase the availability of credit to ailing businesses and consumers, but as of last year mortgage lending ... (more)

Obamacare architect: Canceled policies about soaking healthy ‘genetic lottery winners’

The Daily Caller

Nov 14

MIT economics professor Jonathan Gruber explained Wednesday that the current health-care system is unfair, discriminatory and rewards “lottery winners” who do not have to pay more for health insurance because they are healthy.

“Let’s start with understanding that we are not talking about the vast majority of Americans,” Gruber explained on Chuck Todd’s “The Daily Rundown” on MSNBC. “This law is really leaving those with employe... (more)

WebMD's healthy deal with Obamacare: Kind words for law, millions from feds

Washington Times

Nov 14

The Economics of ObamaCare

Robert P. Murphy

Nov 14

Tina Turner formally 'relinquishes' U.S. citizenship (as opposed to renouncing, avoids exit tax)

Washington Post

Nov 14

Has the Fed Met Its Match?

Jeffrey Tucker

Nov 13

Now, this is sheer entertainment. The Chicago branch of the Federal Reserve has addressed the great monetary question of our day. A researcher has taken a detailed look at the prospects for market-based crypto-currency, with a special focus on Bitcoin. It concludes that Bitcoin is not a viable replacement for the dollar. The report includes some dark hints that shou... (more)

Wisconsin bill would legalize raw milk, with caveats

JSOnline

Nov 13

Troops ‘occupy’ retailers as Venezuela issues lower-price mandate

Raw Story

Nov 12

Free Money for Everyone

The Freeman

Nov 12

A Bitcoin for Your Thoughts

The Freeman

Nov 12

Can You Hear Me Now? We Have Too Much Health Insurance

The Independent Institute

Nov 12

Hearing aids have been expensive--until now.

An interesting story in the New York Times a little over a year ago related the journey of a woman who had broken the shell of one of her hearing aids. Shocked at the price of hearing aids from private audiologists--at least $2,000 for a set, and usually $3,000--she sought another solution. Learning that about 70 percent of this price i... (more)

Marc Faber Is Back: "It Will End Badly... We're In A Worse Position Than 2008"

ZeroHedge

Nov 12

"It will end badly," Marc Faber explains in this brief CNBC clip, "the question is whether we will have a minor economic crisis and then huge money printing or get into an inflationary spiral first." If you thought that "we had a credit crisis in 2008 because we had too much credit in the economy," then Faber notes "there is that much more credit as a percent of the economy now." Of course, as Bill Fleckenstein recently noted, as long as stocks are rising, investors remain b... (more)

Peter Schiff & Max Keiser talk of greatest Ponzi of our time

YouTube

Nov 12