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Can You Cure An Addict By Giving Him More Drugs?

Only if you want to kill him. Car­o­line Baum dis­cusses this very topic on Bloomberg. Imag­ine a doc­tor who, faced with an alco­holic, diag­nosed more alco­hol as a treat­ment. A doc­tor like that would be thrown out of the med­ical pro­fes­sion and right­fully so. Yet, our polit­i­cal lead­ers, when faced by a cri­sis cre­ated by …

January 28, 2009 – 10:09 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Economics, National Issues | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Our Impending Financial Crisis

This arti­cle in Harpers is a must read for any­one who wants to under­stand the real cur­rent state of the Amer­i­can econ­omy. The US gov­ern­ment has manip­u­lated and mod­i­fied eco­nomic sta­tis­tics for the past 40 years in an effort to hide from the Amer­i­can peo­ple what the true state of the econ­omy is. This has …

August 4, 2008 – 7:17 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Economics | Tagged , , | Comments (1)