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Actually there is a strong link between deficits and inflation. But relatively few understand it. That's why deficits, rather than tax increases, are a far more popular way among politicians to pay for our continuous wars and outrageous "defense" spending than increasing taxes, which everyone...

Have you ever heard of the roaring 20s or the market Crash in the Fall of twenty nine. What do you suppose happened to incomes and revenues going into 1929 and in 1930. Are you going to attribute the fall of revenue in the 30s to the Mellon Tax cuts? Oh, I see that was the recession's effect...

I doubt if this incident will have any effect on the typical Trump voter. Trumps entire business career, and now his campaign, is based on the knowledge that a large proportion of the population is gullible to a presentation of lies, exaggerations, falsehoods and misrepresentations, so long as...

I agree that CNN and all the other popular "news" media that depend on advertising revenue take inconsequential events, blow them up, and harp on them, over and over when there is so much of greater consequence they should be giving coverage too. This incident was worth a brief mention but...

In the absence of competition, ruled out by regulatory capture and exigency, the price of medical care is not very elastic. In the U.S. one pays both medicare and private insurance premiums their entire adult lives -- assuming they purchase medicare supplementary insurance after age 65. In...

I am not necessarily referring to the crusades here. Have you ever heard of the inquisition, the Salem witch trials, and other examples too numerous to mention.

How many times do we have to explain to you that revenues go up when the government increases spending at times other than when the economy is in a recession? And how many times do we have to explain to you that you can not determine the effect of changes in tax rates on revenue by looking only...

Milton Friedman was a smart, self-confident, and convincing advocate for the concepts that form the basis of supply-side economics. Friedman's ideas*, mainly through his students, have hugely influenced American Economic Policy for over three decades. His "supply-sider" students from the...

It pleases me to know that you found Soros' Atlantic article sufficiently thought provoking that you were induced to read at least some of it, even if you were not able to grasp fully the implications of its content. That's at least a good start. Especially for you.

Let us not forget that the Christian Church was a terrorist organization at times in its past. The reformation took about three centuries starting in the 1300s. Islam is a few centuries behind. They will catch up, and it may only take a century this time because of modern communications. One...

OK, so how do you propose to go about converting from "multi culti" to "melting pot". The devil would seem to be in the details. Once you figure out how to pull that off, you can start working on converting from ignorant to educated, poor to rich, sick to healthy, etc. Plenty of challenges...

The long article I posted a link to, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1997/02/the-capitalist-threat/376773/ , I personally believe is one of the most insightful statements dealing with political philosophy penned in the 20th Century, and penned by someone with broad personal...

Soros leans toward classical libertarian ideology, as distinct from neoliberal, or anarcho capitalist ideology. His foundation supports groups by giving them financial support and then stepping back and letting them make the decisions. He does not interfere with their operation and...

If we reverse the kind of thinking you surely employed to come up with the above and think instead of how best to protect our President, we need look no further then Foresight's suggestion that Trump find someone of similar intellect as his running mate. Thus a clever way of discouraging those...

Those damn liberals. Constantly trying to trick us by not speaking evil.

And just when I was thinking this Trump campaign can't get any more amusing than it already is!

It's about time someone addressed the pressing need we've had to protect ourselves from being forced to participate in gay weddings. Indiana residents, at least, can rest easy knowing that at long last they can stop worrying about forced, gay wedding participation. But what about the rest of...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gore_Vidal Ricter made reference to the Vidal-Buckley feud. In the above wiki article there is a highly entertaining description of it. Also for those whose curiosity is piqued by the Gore Video on the American Presidents I can recommend "Imperial America" as...

There is correlation but no convincing evidence of cause and effect. Globalization is only one factor.

I don't know anything about any of that. And nothing I posted would suggest, I hope, that Jesse Helms, may his vile remains rot in hell, was ever a member of the KKK. How on Earth would I know that? What I was referring to was the fact that in the South, after reconstruction, the whites were...