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  • Dollar ReDe$ign

    —The Sample Gates

    The US economy is falling apart, global and domestic confidence in the US dollar is at a record low, and the value of our currency is plummeting. If the US economy was a company, what would we do? We’d do what tobacco giant Philip Morris did when it became Altria: [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 11:28pm EST
    by Zach Ammerman

  • Some figures.

    —The Sample Gates

    Number of comments: 1
    While I’m certainly no expert in economics, I still found these figures to be quite interesting: In the thirty years before 1980, median family income (adjusted for inflation) increased by 50.45%. Since 1980, around the time of the start of significant deregulation of modern finance, median family income has increased by only [...]
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    Posted: November 10, 2009, 9:32pm EST
    by Zach Ammerman

  • Maine: pot is more important than equal rights

    —The Sample Gates

    Number of comments: 4
    The citizens of Maine voted yesterday by 20 percentage points to effectively legalize marijuana. Unfortunately, they also apparently thought that smoking pot was more important than allowing gay people to be able to have the same marriage rights as the rest of the state because they repealed the states already-approved [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:22pm EST
    by Zach Ammerman

  • Italy Convicts 23 Americans for Rendition

    —The Sample Gates

    An Italian court convicted 23 American intelligence officials of kidnapping in broad daylight a 23 year-old Muslim man that they suspected (incorrectly) of terrorism from the streets of Milan and subsequently sending him to Egyptian authorities (a country known to torture prisoners), where he was then (surprise) tortured. Unfortunately, this is [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2009, 3:14pm EST
    by Zach Ammerman

  • The Boys’ Club

    —The Sample Gates

    Number of comments: 3
    Women are sorely underrepresented in positions of power and authority around the world. Among the member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the median percentage of females members of parliament (MPs) is only 23%. This is especially shocking considering that the OECD is composed of thirty of [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 4:49pm EST
    by Zach Ammerman

  • Military Aid to Egypt

    —The Sample Gates

    While in Marrakesh, Morrocco today, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton pledged $100 million in aid to the greater Muslim community to “boost ties” with the Muslim world, with a large portion of that undoubtedly going to Egypt, which has been ruled by a domestically unpopular autocratic regime for decades. [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2009, 4:38pm EST
    by Zach Ammerman

  • US Politics: Nothing to Write Home About

    —The Sample Gates

    Number of comments: 1
    WARNING: The ideas advocated in this post have absolutely no chance of occurring. The United States has the oldest continually-operating constitution in the world. When first hearing this fact many Americans react with smug pride. That’s stupid; our political system is nothing to write home about. The reason why nations so [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 6:17pm EDT
    by Zach Ammerman

  • Zimbabwe

    —The Sample Gates

    There is perhaps no other country in Africa that had more hope or promise for the future than Zimbabwe. And, like most of Africa, Zimbabwe has tragically had its hopes and dreams absolutely obliterated due to complete abject mismanagement of the economy by a despot ruler intent on clinging to [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 1:54pm EDT
    by Zach Ammerman

  • The Pansy President

    —The Sample Gates

    Number of comments: 1
    Let’s review: The Democrats won the 2006 and 2008 elections in a landslide. They got 60% majorities in both houses of Congress and a popular Democrat (with the name Barack Hussein Obama, no less) in the White House. You’d think that a year into all of this we’d be well on our [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2009, 9:04pm EDT
    by Zach Ammerman

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