The 09ers

Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Blake
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Posted on September 29th, 2008 by rromanchuk
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In 2005 Bernanke said

There’s No Housing Bubble to Go Bust

Posted on September 23rd, 2008 by rromanchuk
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Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.

Posted on September 22nd, 2008 by rromanchuk
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A few photos from our trip to Serendipity last week. More here. My boss Jim and my pal Carlyn also made the trip up with me and Ryan. We strolled through old Damascus and trekked down to Ryan’s hockey stick discovery monument in Serendipity. I wound up taking a spill when a tree root I [...]

Posted on September 20th, 2008 by Blake
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Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Blake
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As everyone sits around blabbing on and on about what caused this financial meltdown, who predicted it first, and which candidate uttered the buzz words first, I’d like to shift everyone’s attention to some people who deserve credit, deserve to be read, and deserve some attention.
Everyone needs to set aside some time today to read [...]

Posted on September 16th, 2008 by rromanchuk
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Answer me this. Who is the Federal Reserve? What do they do? The fact of the matter is, I know you don’t know.
Sure, you may have learned about the Fed and suggested they are the central bank who maintains the currency and prevents economic depressions. You may have even taken a money and banking [...]

Posted on September 16th, 2008 by rromanchuk
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Down we go.

Posted on September 15th, 2008 by admin
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… so reads the headline of the latest (ok, it’s a few days old now..) Robert Higgs article from The Independent Institute. A great excerpt:
The architecture of the Hotel of Impossible Promises is not arcane…[Politicians] are not striving to create economically viable institutions that serve the general public interest; they are feathering their [...]

Posted on September 15th, 2008 by Blake
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