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The Adam Smith Colony
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The Adam Smith Colony was created to provide an area where healthy debate about all matters concerning the economic landscape and financial markets can ensue. This is a place not only to voice your opinions, but also to challenge your assertions.
Recent Posts
Adam Smith Conversation : The Role of the Fed - Part II
Adam Smith is still rolling over in his grave! It appears that the populist movement to abolish the Fed is gaining some steam. The esteemed Representative from Texas, Ron Paul has introduced legislation to severely limit the power of the Fed. I ca...
Adam Smith Conversation: The new role of the Fed
So it looks like our renegade Congressman Ron Paul is going to get his way and change the role of the Fed. Adam Smith would argue that this is government being overzealous and overreaching. These actions are taking away the powers that make the Fed...
An Adam Smith Observation : Guberantorial Races a Referendum
Here at the Adam Smith Colony, we like to stick to matter of economics and finance. We don't typically dip into the world of politics. To express my current thoughts, I will have to break that rule. Yesterday, there were some key Gubernatorial rac...
An Adam Smith Pondering: Too much math in economics?
This subject didn't come about in Adam Smith's days but one subject in current economics that has come about and is currently discussed among multiple scholars is whether or not there is too much "math" in modern day economics. Now of course math is...
Adam Smith would roll over
The role of the FEDThe Adam Smith Colony is about debating on financial and economic issues of the day and no issue is more relevant pressing in those matters than the role of the FED moving forward. In today's WSJ This Morning Podcast, there was a ...
Not to beat a dead horse...
Did I just wake up in Russia?From WSJ:Kenneth Feinberg, the Treasury Department's pay czar, will slash compensation for the 25 highest-paid employees at seven firms receiving large sums of government aid and demand a host of corporate governance chan...

