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• The Currencies Of Last Resort

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  As one of my favorite bloggers, Sybil's Star often says, "you can take the gold out of the standard, but you can't take the standard out of the gold." A case in point was the 1970's. In 1971, President Nixon took the U.S., and the rest of the world, off [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:00am EST
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• Twitter In The Over 50 Club

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  A buddy of mine at work, who is roughly the the same age as me (55), informed me one day that he had been "talked into signing up with Facebook." He then went on to describe how stupid and pointless it is. I asked him about Twitter;"Oh hell no", he [...]
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 4:33pm EST
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• More From The Transparency Wars

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  In a clear case of the Empire striking back, Mel Watt, a Democrat from North Carolina, who chairs the domestic monetary policy and technology subcommittee of the House Financial Services Committee has "gutted" H.R. 1207, the bill to audit the Federal Reserve. Some possible motivations for Mr. Watt's actions come [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 5:04am EST
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• A Presidential Clunker?

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  Edmunds car guides have been around since 1966. In 2006 they ceased paper publication and went all online as edmunds.com. They have become a "must use" site for anyone buying a new or used car. So when they came out with a report that the governments Cash for Clunkers (CARS) [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 6:18am EST
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• Globalization's Downward Spiral

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  In 6,000 years of recorded human history there has never been a country, or an empire, that grew strong with a weak monetary system. The fall of empires is always foreshadowed by devaluation; Always. From Byzantines byzant, to Rome's drachma, to England's pound, the deliberate cheapening of the money marks [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 12:33pm EDT
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• Development In The Public Eye

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  Another October, time for me and my brother Steve to make our annual pilgrimage to Laguna Seca Raceway for the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) 4 hour endurance race in Monterrey, California. The series usually features 4 classes of cars, 2 prototype (experimental) and 2 production (street cars). Recently they [...]
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  Posted: October 20, 2009, 5:14am EDT
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• The Common Knowledge Pool

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  Dr. Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics this week. Her selection was somewhat controversial, not because she's a woman, but because her nearly 60 years of field work and research challenge the left/right political and economic establishments. Her work centers around the Common' [...]
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  Posted: October 17, 2009, 8:34am EDT
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