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Lew Rockwell: “Understanding the Crisis” and “The Crisis Book Kit”
Read more: Lew Rockwell: “Understanding the Crisis” and “The Crisis Book Kit”Lew Rockwell introduces the surprising simplicity, fascination and usefulness of a study of money, and points to mises.org’s
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Earth during a solar eclipse
Read more: Earth during a solar eclipseA beautiful image from NASA, taken from the Mir Space Station. read more | digg story
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Help for Heroes rugby match, Twickenham
Read more: Help for Heroes rugby match, TwickenhamHelp for Heroes rugby, Twickenham, originally uploaded by stevenjbaker. Beth and I enjoyed the Help for Heroes rugby match at Twickenham today, traveling two-up on the KTM to park free at the stadium. Thanks RFU! More on the…
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Mises.org: “What’s Behind the Financial Market Crisis?”
Read more: Mises.org: “What’s Behind the Financial Market Crisis?”As a result of the bailouts and the socialization of the mortgage agencies, the financial system is now fully infected with moral hazard. The disastrous effects of these government interventions will show up soon. The major task of…
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The Tax Payers’ Alliance illustrates Brown’s robbery
Read more: The Tax Payers’ Alliance illustrates Brown’s robberyTry the “Brown Calculator” to see what Brown has achieved. read more | digg story
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A Marxist comes out
Read more: A Marxist comes outJohn Cruddas MP at The Guardian: The future demands an active state redistributing wealth to balance a dysfunctional economy – the Labour Party’s founding principle. As I have written, our economic system has been subject to too much…
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Lloyds TSB and HBOS merge
Read more: Lloyds TSB and HBOS mergeThe Guardian: A £12bn takeover of Britain’s biggest lender, HBOS, failed to halt the deepening crisis in world financial markets last night, as a wave of fresh speculation on global stock markets saw two of Wall Street’s most…
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FT.com: Lex on the AIG rescue
Read more: FT.com: Lex on the AIG rescueLex reports on AIG’s rescue: AIG was not too big to fail, but too connected. Bankruptcy would have in effect cancelled the debt insurance that AIG provided, and triggered emergency capital raisings from counterparties around the world. The…
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LewRockwell.com: The Fed’s Failure
Read more: LewRockwell.com: The Fed’s FailureThe Fed is making three kinds of bad loans. First, the Fed is lending to banks that are in bad shape and need the funds badly. They are simply bad risks. If the Fed were a profit-maximizing banker,…