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Before you flaunt your doubtless bottomless well of military & national security expertise, you might want to answer my question. You wouldn't want me to think you're trying to weasel your way out, would you?

Googled the opening line: Pompous Prognosticators 2nd quote down. Prez of the NYSE, in Jan 1928.

1st & third are standard right wing bs I've heard a million times. But that middle one is interesting. I've never heard that one before, especially since Eisenhower ran Europe, and Admiral Ernest "when they get into trouble they send for the sons of bitches" King ran the Pacific war. Meantime...

No, his problem is that he's NOT copying FDR, who had no problem with cleaning out the financial system as his first job, which is why he was re-elected three times after that. FDR got it right. Obama hasn't, so far. We still don't know if the stress tests will be used as cover to kill the...

Yeah, Bastiat is very cool. Elegant, simple, clear. I'm going to make the [very large] assumption that Cutten is serious about wanting an objective analysis that will make him money. So... The way the world works is pretty simple. Some poor place finds a way to make some rich place pay for...

Expressed as a general principal after discussing a particular tax. And no, I'm not looking it up again. There's two places where it's mentioned, towards the back of the book. It's 800 pages. I have a suspicion some folks only read the front part.

That's what made 'em crazy.

From my experience on this board, I'd say neither side has any monopoly on idiocy. As I recall, not one of you rightist fools had the slightest idea that Adam Smith actually wrote in favor of progressive taxation. You're all ignorant asses. Over on the left, or what passes for it around here...

How's he a megalomaniac? Seriously. If I were him half of these CEOs would be in jail. As for this alleged "war" against those making more than 250k (in, it should be emphasized, adjusted gross income, which if you're reporting that much you're either making twice that or you've got a really...

Actually, at work I was talking to someone who had the idea of buying gold in one currency and then selling it in another, to do what the OP wants. Not something I'd ever considered doing, but it certainly seems practical and easy.

It ain't in any way power-freaky to demand the GM CEO's head on a platter; he was there for eight years, and according to my latest Consumer Reports, GM is at the bottom of the quality list, ahead only of Chrysler. As for the banks, these guys evaporated trillions of dollars of wealth...

If you establish a SEP-IRA, you can shield up to 25% of your income from taxes, to a limit of 46000. If you're not independent, but an employee of a larger corp, you get up to 15000 off for your 401(k), an additional 5k if you're 50 or over, you can shield an additional 5k through a Health Care...

Hoover had pretty much his entire term, not the "couple of years" you so artfully try to minimize it down to. By the time FDR got in, there was no confidence at all in the banking sector. The first and most important thing he did was to clean that sector out and get confidence back, and then...

Really? The FDIC? Social Security? That would be news to most historians. A little common sense folks: do you think FDR was elected because what happened before solved everything? Do you think Keynes became famous because the economists who preceded him, and their theories, actually...

Early is wrong.

I see revisionist history has managed to eat up quite a bit of truth. Don't any of you have parents or grandparents who were alive during the Depression, or did the bunch of you spring, like Aphrodite, right out of the sea on a shell, or like Athena, from the head of Zeus, and therefore have...

...to the folks proposing fanciful tax regimes: you could go for intellectual honesty, and the compromise that was the 1986 tax reform, a masterful balance between left wing desires for limiting deductions and right wing desires for simplification and flattening. There were two brackets: 15 and...

...and given the blatantly leading way the question was asked. Unbelievable.

This thing oughtta be moved to Politics & Religion, given the caliber of responses so far. Does anyone on this board think? Supply side economics, among other things, states that if you have a large supply of [wanted] goods, it will sop up a large supply of money, something that is lost on 99...

Zacks: 6 month price target of zip: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/GM-Price-Target-Remains-zacks-14803342.html Selah.