Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
Thomas Jefferson

A lot of Americans on voluntary or involuntary wage-less furloughs are now free to reflect on the wide-scale theft of American economy and our future.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the [...]

In Support of:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid

Speaker of the House Pelosi

Senator Harkin

Senator Sanders

House Ways and Means Chairman Rangel

Mr Market seems curiously quiet along the Eastern Front, while big private money unloads in the dark in the park with market volatility at 16 month lows.

A deep public desire to get back into gold and eschew the dollar as quickly as possible ignores the big picture of deflation with a +6.9% Nov Energy [...]

Making Princeton academic Benjamin Shalom Bernanke Time Man of the Year for saving the financial system was like giving credit to Cock O’ Doodle Dandy Doo, Adolph Hitler, Henry Merritt Hank Paulson Jr or Timothy Franz Geithner for raising the sun every morning they crowed, while not paying taxes and putting people out [...]

Every Century has the Naughties – those years beginning with Zero, 2000 to 2009, 1900 to 1909 and 1800 to 1809. Those that do not know history may be doomed to repeat it. The past is not always prologue, but often enough to value the wisdom of experience.

Bloomberg recently reported good news re our long-held TTTTT Transparent Tobin Total Transaction Tax idea since our published Tax Testimony to the House Ways and Means Committee on Replacing the Income Tax some decades ago.

Apparently not only does Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom support it, but so do Warren Buffet, John [...]

Aloha All
We realize for some talking about money may be the ultimate taboo.

We also know these are challenging economic times, so we are sending this complimentary Winter 2009 Post with valuable ideas and no obligation.

We have answered the call to do this for several years and have been grateful and thankful for the response [...]