Ruminations

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Category: Economics

  • Obama’s War on America’s Energy Infrastructure.

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    Kyle
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    No, going into green energy is not a good thing if it is not economical, and it is not. Obama blew $150 billion, stolen from the taxpayers, on these essentially “crony capitalist”, anti-free market projects. Obama Subsidizes U.S. Solar Energy Spain’s economy was basically destroyed by the fanatical green energy movement there – Spain’s Green…

  • Blacks are worse off under Obama/Clinton!

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    Kyle
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    I was wondering about how polls could say 95% of black voters are for Killary, when all the numbers says blacks are much worse off now after 6 years of “Democratic leadership”. Townhall – Blacks worse off under Obama Expansion of black misery under Obama National Review – blacks worse off under Obama I’m thinking…

  • The Greater Fool

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    Kyle
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    I have heard repeatedly people say they can’t fathom how anyone would lend money to a government for a negative interest rate. This is true only if they keep the bond to maturity, and they have no intention of doing so! If investors expect future interest rates to become even more negative, then the value…

  • Misery Index

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    Kyle
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    Remember the Misery Index? Misery Index is just unemployment rate + inflation rate. Ronald Reagan campaigned on it when it hit an “outrageous 21%” in 1979. Since then the govt has just been making ever more elaborate lies about what the numbers are. See this good article – http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-06-15/our-phantom-economy , and the first comment: real…