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Major policy changes usually start out as trial balloons, ideas placed with sympathetic media outlets that float around and draw reactions from the affected parties. This gives policymakers a risk-free look at what would happen if they claim credit for a given idea. So the article that appears in today’s Wall Street Journal under the [...]

If Only

by John Rubino on January 20, 2010

A Wall Street Journal columnist named Thomas Frank just made a great suggestion: One Cross of Gold, Coming Up How the government could get even with right-wing cranks. These are polarized times, but one thing everyone agrees on is that it sure is great when government makes a profit. Supporters of President Obama like to [...]

Irony: Andrew Jackson On a Federal Reserve Note

by John Rubino on January 9, 2010

Karl Golovin, a retired customs agent and security director for Ron Paul’s presidential campaign, just forwarded a transcript of Andrew Jackson’s farewell address. It’s pretty amazing.  Here’s Karl’s intro, followed by an excerpt: “During his presidency, Andrew Jackson viewed as his crowning achievement that he “Killed the Bank,” the 2nd Bank of the U.S. Our [...]

 
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