I’m a Federal Reserve Chairman, Get Me Out of Here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_VCy0lMU1g

What You Don’t Know Can’t Hurt You: The Case for Federal Reserve Independence

“THE FEDERAL Reserve Board’s independence is a bit like the judiciary’s independence.”  Anonymous Editorial, Washington Post, “Focus on the Fed” July 24, 2009. This central premise, it is suggested by one yellow journalist, justifies the Federal Reserve being exempt from audits - more particularly that Congress should decline to pass H.R. 1207.  Consider the analogy.
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Friedman v. Donahue - Greed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A

House Passes ‘Stimulus’ 244-188, Spites Face

Yet another stimulus bill has passed under supposedly “urgent” circumstances.  “We don’t have a moment to spare,” Obama declared (perhaps pretending that he is the new George W. Bush).  The last trillionesque-dollar stimulus  was hurried through under much similar circumstances - though at that time, the House had enough sense to vote against it the […]

Let Vermont Go, Reason Against a Second Civil War

There has been a relatively recent political movement in the state of Vermont that it secede from the union - even garnering 13% popularity in that state, up 5% from last year. “The argument for secession is that the U.S. has become an empire that is essentially ungovernable — it’s too big, it’s too corrupt […]