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Paul Krugman’s Economic Theology

Yet another case of a "heads I win, tails you lose" argument from Krugman.

Don’t Ever Play Chess With Paul Krugman

Krugman has thought one step ahead of his intellectual opponents. If economic forecasting was a game of chess, he'd have their queens and be moving in for checkmate. Or, at least, that's what he'd think.

Alan Greenspan’s New Book Whitewashes Fed’s Role in Causing the Financial Crisis

Greenspan is attempting with his book to whitewash his own role in creating the housing bubble.

How Anyone Can Think Gov’t Should Centrally Plan Health Care for Us Is Beyond My Comprehension

Yesterday, I went to HealthCare.gov, the Obamacare insurance exchange website, to see what I could see.

NYT Continues to Downplay How CIA-Funneled Arms to Syrian Rebels Helped Strengthen Jihadists

As usual, the New York Times is spinning information to willfully obfuscate the role of the U.S. in arming Syrian rebels whose ranks include al-Qaeda-affiliated and other Islamic extremist groups, with most of the arms falling into the hands of the jihadists.

The Truth About Central Banking and Business Cycles

When central banks send the wrong messages to savers and consumers trying to coordinate their plans, boom and bust cycles lengthen and worsen.

Hidden Secrets of Money Episode 4: ‘The Biggest Scam In The History of Mankind’

Learning this will change your life, because it will change the choices that you make. If enough people learn it, it will change the world... because it will change the system.

NYT Implies Iran Doesn’t Really Have a Right to Uranium Enrichment Under the NPT

Well, let’s just see what the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to which Iran and the U.S. are both party has to say about that...

Syrian Chemical Weapons Facilities Under Rebel Control

Inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are asking to also visit CW sites under that were captured by the rebels and are under their control.

US Wanted Head of Chemical Weapons Non-Proliferation Group Fired in ’02 for Undermining Pretext for Iraq War

The U.S. lobbied for the ousting of Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) José Bustani in 2002 because he understood that Iraq's chemical weapons were destroyed following the '91 Gulf War.