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To keep us from revolution they give us a "choice"
by PeopleUnited on 24 Sep 2012   1 comment, latest 12 years ago
To see/hear what so many people say and write these days, it seems they are seeking to persuade everyone that the democrats/republicans are are the scum of the earth, ...
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If you ate supper tonight, you didn't grow that, harvest that, butcher that....
by PeopleUnited on 11 Aug 2012   11 comments, latest 12 years ago
More than one in seven Americans is taking taxpayer dollars and feeding themselves with "foodstamps." http://live.wsj.com/video/why- If foodstamp users were lined up at soup kitchens like in the 1930's ...
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Make everything voluntary, a new birth of freedom for a new generation
by PeopleUnited on 31 May 2012   9 comments, latest 12 years ago
I've only read the first couple of chapters but this is some of the most important and relevant information penned by humans that I have had the privilege to ...
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Old 1965 house with solar heating system?
by PeopleUnited on 27 Nov 2011   16 comments, latest 12 years ago
Has anyone ever seen a 1960's home with original heating system that encorporates solar and electric. Each room has its own temperature control. this house was built in 1965. ...
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Oil boomtown dilema
by PeopleUnited on 20 Nov 2011   15 comments, latest 12 years ago
Just moved to an oil boomtown in ND. Rents here have skyrocketed from around $400 a month for a nice 3 bedroom apartment to around $2000 a month for ...
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A Society of Criminals-Libertarianism explained
by PeopleUnited on 28 Feb 2010   250 comments, latest 13 years ago
By Ben O'Neill http://mises.org/daily/4125 A short excerpt from the larger article: "In fact, what is called "the free market" is just the absence of socially sanctioned theft, assault, robbery, ...
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The erroneous perception that big government and big business are at odds.
by PeopleUnited on 25 Jan 2011   2 comments, latest 13 years ago
Does Favoring Free Enterprise Mean Favoring "Business"? http://mises.org/daily/4998 Since big business funds the campaigns of the ultimate winners and creators of big government, the answer is....
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The 7 things you’re paying more for than you think
by PeopleUnited on 20 Jan 2011   4 comments, latest 13 years ago
Bad news for economy (and house sellers): Consumers face higher prices in 2011 http://www.marketwatch.com/sto
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The Left Right Paradigm is Over: Its You vs. Corporations
by PeopleUnited on 28 Sep 2010   7 comments, latest 14 years ago
Keynes vs Hayek? Friedman vs Krugman? Those are the wrong intellectual debates. Its you vs. Tony Hayward, BP CEO, You vs. Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs CEO. And you are ...
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More on price stabilization bye the Fed (pun intended)
by PeopleUnited on 1 Aug 2010   184 comments, latest 14 years ago
Aug. 1, 2010 GUEST COMMENTARY: The Coming Currency Crisis By Pat McGeehan Freedom lies at its darkest hour not by threat of sword, but by threat of poverty. And ...
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Mortgage rates hit low of 4.49 pct. (buy an overpriced house today!)
by PeopleUnited on 5 Aug 2010   36 comments, latest 14 years ago
Wow, most mortgages were only 20-25 years in the 1950's, and they had interest rates even lower than today. Sounds like this generation is going to have much more ...
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The Debt Generation
by PeopleUnited on 1 Aug 2010   18 comments, latest 14 years ago
Burdened by school loans and priced out of the housing market. What are the prospects for those in their 20's and 30's? This is why it seems the burden ...
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Prepare for another 4 million+ foreclosures...
by PeopleUnited on 1 Aug 2010   7 comments, latest 14 years ago
http://seekingalpha.com/articl Still think we are at the bottom? The bottom line is that in many parts of the country local incomes do not justify local property "values." Credit cannot ...
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The War That's Not a War
by PeopleUnited on 5 Jul 2010   4 comments, latest 14 years ago
Statement of Congressman Ron Paul United States House of Representatives The War That's Not a War July 1, 2010 "In January 1991, we went to war in the Middle ...
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The currencies are the benchmark of our wealth (purchasing power) and they are being eroded quickly
by PeopleUnited on 18 Jun 2010   9 comments, latest 14 years ago
http://www.groenewegenreport.c You can argue semantics all you want, but as the dollar goes, so goes America.
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Chairman Greenspan: A Fiat Mind for a Fiat Age
by PeopleUnited on 15 Jun 2010   6 comments, latest 14 years ago
A longer article summarizing the maestro's career. For those of you with short attention spans (not naming any names) I hope you at least enjoy the picture. http://mises.org/daily/4472
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The Courage to Leave
by PeopleUnited on 12 Jun 2010   7 comments, latest 14 years ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06 Support our troops. Bring them home.
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'Pieces of Eight': The Constitution and the Dollar
by PeopleUnited on 29 May 2010   4 comments, latest 14 years ago
The Wall Street Journal discusses the only kind of money (gold and silver coins) that the constitution designates as tender for payment of debts. http://online.wsj.com/article/ Gold and silver will ...
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How Liberal Are You?
by PeopleUnited on 2 May 2010   85 comments, latest 14 years ago
Wikipedia says "Liberalism (from the Latin liberalis, "of freedom"[1]) is the belief in the importance of liberty and equality... ...The revolutionaries in the American Revolution and the French Revolution ...
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Myths and Facts about ObamaCare
by PeopleUnited on 25 Mar 2010   95 comments, latest 14 years ago
http://static1.firedoglake.com #politics
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The Current Financial Crisis — and After
by PeopleUnited on 10 Apr 2010   21 comments, latest 14 years ago
http://mises.org/daily/4218 When you have the time, this is worth your attention. a short excerpt from the summary: "So the system must inevitably collapse. The younger you are, the more ...
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So Keynes was right? Well, he WAS right.
by PeopleUnited on 25 Mar 2010   18 comments, latest 14 years ago
http://www.investmentpostcards The Austrian School is finally vindicated. We have reached the point where more debt does not equal more productivity. Sorry it took so long for everyone to realize ...
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75 Years of Funny Money- Canada's Central Bank is just as bad as the FED
by PeopleUnited on 16 Mar 2010   1 comment, latest 14 years ago
http://www.financialpost.com/n "There are big stakes involved. Inflation is a way for governments to spend more without having to directly impose taxes. A central bank is an essential part of ...
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The ugly truth about National Health Service (NHS) British Socialized Medicine in Action
by PeopleUnited on 8 Mar 2010   23 comments, latest 14 years ago
"A culture of fear and slavish compliance. “The risk of consequences to managers is much greater for not meeting expectations from above than for not meeting expectations of patients ...
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Politics Cannot Be Fixed
by PeopleUnited on 14 Mar 2010   11 comments, latest 14 years ago
http://mises.org/daily/4166 Perhaps all these politicians resigning/not running for reelection are on to something. They know the system is broken beyond repair. The best solution would be to reduce the ...
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My Plan for a Freedom President- Ron Paul describes what a REAL Liberal would do.
by PeopleUnited on 5 Mar 2010   9 comments, latest 14 years ago
http://www.yaliberty.org/yar/p "Since my 2008 campaign for the presidency I have often been asked, “How would a constitutionalist president go about dismantling the welfare-warfare state and restoring a constitutional republic?” ...
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The Case Against Greenspan and Bernanke-aiding and abetting fraud
by PeopleUnited on 4 Mar 2010   5 comments, latest 14 years ago
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/ "Thus, "deregulation" was not the problem as much as the "failure to regulate". " -James K. Galbraith
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Jefferson vs Lincoln: America Must Choose
by PeopleUnited on 24 Feb 2010   12 comments, latest 14 years ago
http://www.tenthamendmentcente Perhaps our most famous president of all Honest Abe, was as close a thing to a dictator we ever had, and ignored the Constitution when ever it was ...
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Patrick posted an interesting piece. Rehearsals for a Civil War
by PeopleUnited on 23 Feb 2010   11 comments, latest 14 years ago
http://kunstler.com/blog/2010/ One thing that stuck out in my mind as I read this is the fact that in pursuing the differing philosophies we all hold about what form of ...
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The Democratic Party's deceitful game
by PeopleUnited on 23 Feb 2010   20 comments, latest 14 years ago
http://www.salon.com/news/opin It is not very often that you find an opinion piece where progressives, conservatives and libertarians can find truth in just about every word. This is one of ...
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Burger King: Perfect Example of Current Inflation Pressures
by PeopleUnited on 21 Feb 2010   19 comments, latest 14 years ago
http://wallstreetpit.com/17309 by Kathy Lien
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U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion
by PeopleUnited on 21 Feb 2010   Posted 14 years ago
http://www.theonion.com/conten
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Terrorism: a most meaningless and manipulated word
by PeopleUnited on 21 Feb 2010   1 comment, latest 14 years ago
http://www.salon.com/news/opin by Glenn Greenwald
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Don't 'discount' Fed's rate hike
by PeopleUnited on 21 Feb 2010   Posted 14 years ago
http://money.cnn.com/2010/02/1 "The fact that many big banks enjoyed gargantuan profits last year was in large part due to the Fed keeping rates so low. And that has led to ...
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The Dangers of Monetary Reform. Ending the Fed is just the beginning.
by PeopleUnited on 21 Feb 2010   Posted 14 years ago
http://mises.org/daily/4102 #investing
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Sunset "Patriot" Act
by PeopleUnited on 9 Feb 2010   2 comments, latest 14 years ago
Calling all Bush haters, anti-establishment, pro-liberty, pro-privacy types. The "patriot" is set to expire this year. Pelosi, Reid and the other privacy haters in congress are seeking to sneak ...
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Mark Twain's Radical Liberalism -it's not what you're thinking
by PeopleUnited on 30 Jan 2010   36 comments, latest 14 years ago
Huck and Tom teach us valuable lessons about economics without government intervention http://mises.org/daily/4060 "Twain was born as Samuel Langhorne Clemens in 1835, when the meaning of liberalism was less ...
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We've been going back and forth for a century...
by PeopleUnited on 9 Feb 2010   Posted 14 years ago
a lesson in bad music and good and bad economics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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Patrick posts another winner. Obama wants to keep the bubble inflated.
by PeopleUnited on 30 Jan 2010   3 comments, latest 14 years ago
http://gregfielding.housingsto Posted on Patrick.net on Jan. 29,2010 "That’s why we’re working to lift the value of a family’s single largest investment – their home. The steps we took last ...
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Ponzi Nation
by PeopleUnited on 20 Jan 2010   Posted 14 years ago
Place Blame Where It Belongs http://mises.org/daily/4001
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