The Classic Liberal Blog

Institutional Diversification: A Great Idea to Limit Risk

"Total amateur night mixed by insane econometricians."

The Disastrous Student Loan Mess

The Obamacare dominos fall: Franciscan University drops health insurance

Enemies of the People: This Group of Hawaiians Undermines Government Stimulus

Facebook Is Being Proven To Be Overhyped and Overpriced

The "Corzine-Dimon Syndrome"

Bank Run!

The curious calculus of the US employment numbers

"If you want to work you have to pay."

There will never be a free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

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Republican candidate Mitt Romney may be "a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard," because all evidence, both in word and deed, says Romney is beholden to the cult of Keynesian economics.

In a nutshell, Keynesian economic theory claims that a lack of consumer spending causes a downturn in the business cycle, which in turn causes people to lose their jobs and/or make less money and therefore spend less themselves, creating a vicious downward spiral of economic decline. The Keynesian prescription to remedy this downward spiral is to increase consumer spending ...

Fed Once-Secret Loan Crisis Data Compiled by Bloomberg Released to Public

What Jamie Dimon Doesn't Know Is Plain Scary

Medicare, Medicaid and USPS losses are orders of magnitude larger than JP Morgan Chase

A great example of the coming financial repression

200,000 Lose Unemployment Benefits This Week, Nearly Half From California

The Suspicious Growth of the Financial Industry

Bundesbank Confirms German Gold Held By FED, BOE and Banque De France

Moody's downgrades credit of 26 Italian banks

Sovereign Debt Risk Rises as Spain Bank Woes Heighten Euro Alarm

Greece Exit, Euro-Zone Collapse, Spain and Portugal Will Follow Within 6 Months

Ideas are very important to the shaping of

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Does The West Have A Future?

Fed Foe Ron Paul Breakfasts With Bernanke at Central Bank

Six Months Left… Can They Do It?

And the 'dumbest person of the week award' goes to…

Former Soviet Citizen Confronts OWS

Huge Majority of Americans Support Defense Cuts

Romney Takes Swipe at Ron Paul's Budget Blueprint

Dump the Statist Monkey Off Your Back

Government-Created Racism

Caught on Tape: Rampant Vote Fraud By Government Officials On House Floor

How long do politicians have to keep on promising heaven and delivering hell before people catch on, and stop getting swept away by rhetoric? -- Thomas Sowell

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It's Rule 5 Sunday!

"Not only do the 99% put up with the ruling 1%; they put them up on their lofty pedestals. The 99% give the 1% their power … If public opinion were ever to turn on any regime, its days would be numbered."
The 99 and the 1
[Free Market, January 2012]

"We are the 99%!" This slogan of the Occupy Wall Street protesters has been called the most memorable quote of the past year. Those who rally to its cry do so in opposition to the villainous 1%.

For a handful of the protesters, being a member of the 1% means being a ...

Our Fake Reality Show

HOT: JPMorgan Reportedly Suffered $2 Billion Gross Trading Loss on Synthetic Positions

"China City"

Getting the Government's Permission to Work

Scary Numbers and Data

Europe and (Predictably) Failed Fiscal Stimulus

John Stossel on liberty and private enterprise

"The cost of raising a child from birth to age 17 has surged 25 percent over the last 10 years"

The Golden Rule Reinterpreted

Why Civilized People Buy Gold

The problem with politics isn't the money, it's the power. So long as politicians have the power to grant favors, exemptions, and business protection, people will find some way to subvert them -- if not with money now,

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A shocking revelation about Mitt Romney has been uncovered by one of the regime's premiere house organs, something so shocking it's sure to disrupt the 2012 presidential race. The Washington Post has learned that Mitt Romney was a teenager!

The teenage Romney apparently enjoyed pulling pranks too, which included cutting a "presumed" gay student's hair. Oh, the humanity.

Mitt Romney's prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents

Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome campus … he spotted something he thought did not belong at a school … John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year

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Michele Bachmann [tax lawyer by trade] becomes a Swiss citizen

Keith Judd, Texas Inmate, Gets 40 Percent Of Votes Against Obama In West Virginia Democratic Primary

"Back-scratching, big-government, business-as-usual statists were among the hardest hit"

"The NRSC is a corrupt incumbent-protection racket … "

Leftist Race-baiters

ALEC's Fake "Free Market" Apologists on the Right

It's Dangerous When Democrats and Republicans Work Together (Crony Capitalism Rides Again!)

Why Do Republicans Ignore the Foreign Policy Records of Eisenhower and Nixon?

Mitt for Brains Begins Attacking Ron Paul for Cutting Government

Media Blackout Bingo

The State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based

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