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Friday Stack: Someone told you so Edition
Articles I found interesting last week: Remember when everyone said that there would be consequences for our nation taking on a huge amount of debt and tripling our deficit in one year? Remember when people like Ron Paul said that printing money like...
Obama ASU Commencement Translation
President Obama delivered the following remarks during his commencement speech at Arizona State University last week: Now, some graduating classes have marched into this stadium in easy times - times of peace and stability when we call on our graduat...
Ronald Reagan on National Healthcare
What would he say now?...
Did you hear Dave Ramsey get political, fellow personal finance bloggers?
I attended a showing of Dave Ramsey’s Town Hall for Hope last week and thoroughly enjoyed it. Ramsey’s message was optimistic - similar to my post earlier this spring - but listed more specifics and with much greater authority. Before l...
Stimulus equals deficits and higher taxes
Despite the passage of the American Reinvestment Act, also known as the Obama stimulus package, tax and spend states still cannot balance the budget. A recent Wall Street Journal article detailed how New York State continues to raise taxes - despit...
Never ask a tax cheat to be your treasury secretary
The twists and turns of our financial crisis are numerous and complicated. The blame cannot be lay entirely at the feet of any one entity or individual. However, just for today, let us consider the role played by our new Secretary of the Treasury, on...
Friday Stack: Can we spend our way out?
Our great country is about to take on another $800 billion to $1.2 trillion in debt. The United States of America is the most successful experiment in human governance. We took the radical ideas of England’s Magna Carta to a whole new level. Fo...
Paris Hilton will create more jobs than Obama
That title and picture should get Rocket Finance a more diverse audience than usual . . . Paris Hilton is a symbol of extravagance and excess, yet she creates demand for products, helps to populate nightclubs, employs designers and clothing manufactu...
A conservative compromise for stimulus
As a man who recognizes that free markets are not perfect, but are the best system yet devised by man to discourage sloth and reward industry, I have been almost put into shock by the direction of the United States financial system over the past six ...
Finance and Freedom: Freedom of Religion
The single greatest catalyst for the founding of this country was the freedom of religion. Many of our history books downplay this fact, but it was no mistake that the first article in the Bill of Rights dealt with this issue. The idea of “soul...
Finance and Freedom: Introduction
This is the first in a series of posts about how freedom in the United States is being eroded as our government moves to the left. Ever since the New Deal, our nation has moved incrementally toward a strong federal government. Some call it liberalism...
