Saturday, October 11, 2008

Weekend links

Local currencies. An interesting article on local currencies that have been used in the past and their effects on the areas they were used.

The government is a big part of the market problem.

Investors' Real Fear: A Socialist Tsunami

On the Democratic show-trial being run in Alaska. As noted in the article: The Branchflower Report is a series of guess and insupportable conclusions drawn by exactly one guy, and it hasn't been approved or adopted or endorsed by so much as a single sub-committee of the Alaska Legislature, much less any kind of commission, court, jury, or other proper adjudicatory body.

How to ruin the economy.

Its what they do in Chicago... In summary: The list of things that are done in Chicago by politicians is virtually endless. What we can hope is that if the politician is elected, he is only a cynical manipulator of people’s hopes and fears and is not really a radical, America hating racist thug. ... A crook – that’s OK. After all, it’s the way things are done in Chicago.

SNL Skit, uneditied. Actually, I had expected not to like this. It is funny.

A letter from McCain and 20 other Senators in 2006 predicting the current financial meltdown if changes were not made to Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. The Democrats defeated the changes on the floor of the Senate and continued to use Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae as their personal slush fund. And as predicted, the problems developed.

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