TRUE BORN SONS OF LIBERTY

Naked Capitalism supports Occupy Wall Street. Heh, heh. Does Jeep know? Yves Smith of Naked Capitalism, here : Oh, puhleeze. Robust recovery...

"Yet Reason frowns on war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name, And mortgaged states their grandsires' wrea...

Here : The mortgage interest deduction (MID) is the largest personal tax deduction on the books and is widely considered one of the most sac...

$706.6 billion: exclusion of employer contributions for healthcare, health insurance premiums and long term care insurance premiums. $596.0 ...

Having grown up in the 1960s and lived through the terrible employment situation which prevailed in this country off and on from 1975 arguab...

Or is that socialist cronyism? Anyway, those thirsty blood suckers in the federal government made $41.3 billion off the nation's college...

John Hussman, here , last Tuesday: 'While we can make our case on the basis of fact, theory, data, history, and sometimes just basic ari...

Here : Still, many are frustrated at being forced to give up the plans they have now. They frequently cite assurances given by Obama that Am...

From the story here : "Its happening all over new jersey with Hudson & Cape May ranking the highest, 80% of people remaining in the...

Here in the Los Angeles Times article "Poof Goes The Middle Class", in which the liberal Doyle McManus relies on a libertarian pr...

Here : Thus, all spending and borrowing by the federal government are the de facto and de jure—n.b. constitutional—responsibility of the Hou...

(as always, click on the image to enlarge) “Taking a longer view, I anticipate real GDP growth over the next two and a half years [2008 ...

As reported by Bloomberg: Talk to Mark Hanson about the housing market for five minutes and you may find yourself wanting to sell your home ...

So suggests JT Young, who makes a plausible, although strictly political argument, here , for why Obama might want a debt default: [T]he las...

The 10-year US Treasury Rate ended the week at 2.64%, 43% below the mean level going back to 1871. Despite the best efforts of the US Federa...

Corelogic reports here  at the end of August that completed foreclosures in July 2013 ran at a level of 49,000. The pre-2006 average level w...

Mentioned here by Peter Coy: The abrupt shrinkage of the budget deficit this year caused the Treasury Department to cut back on issuance of...

So says the National Association of Realtors, here : Walt Molony, a spokesman for the National Association of Realtors, says that the associ...

TARP is fascism At Real Clear Markets, here : The United States would appear to be well on its way to adopting fascist Italy's political...

So says Arnold Kling for The American, here , who provides a useful summary of crony capitalist rent-seeking since World War II: At this poi...