By Porter Stansbury

I’d like to make you a business offer.

Seriously. This is a real offer. In fact, you really can’t turn me down, as you’ll come to understand in a moment…

Here’s the deal. You’re going to start a business or expand the one you’ve got now. It doesn’t really matter what you do or what you’re going to do. I’ll partner with you no matter what business you’re in – as long as it’s legal.

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By Matthew Brown

Investors will face defaults on government bonds given the burden of aging populations and the difficulty of securing more tax revenue, according to Morgan Stanley.

“Governments will impose a loss on some of their stakeholders,” Arnaud Mares, an executive director at Morgan Stanley in London, wrote in a research report today. “The question is not whether they will renege on their promises, but rather upon which of their promises they will renege, and what form this default will take.” The sovereign-debt crisis is global “and it is not over,” the report said.

Mares said debt as a percentage of gross domestic product is a false indicator of an economy’s health given it doesn’t reflect governments’ available revenue and is “backward- looking.” While the U.S. government’s debt is 53 percent of GDP, one of the lowest ratios among developed nations, its debt as a percentage of revenue is 358 percent, one of the highest, the report said.

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The United States by every measure is hanging on by a thread to its First World status. Saddled by debt, engaged in wars on multiple fronts with a rising police state at home, declining economic productivity, and wild currency fluctuations all threaten America’s future.

The general designations of the ranking system for world status date back to the 1950s, and have included countries at various stages of economic development. Since the Cold War, the definition has come to be synonymous with repressive countries where a wealthy class of ruling elites segment society into the haves and have-nots, many times capitalizing on the conditions that follow an economic crisis or war.

While much of the world is still mired in poverty, the reduced cost of innovative tools such as computing and connectivity ironically puts traditional Third World countries at the forefront of a new lean-and-mean economy that is based on ideas of empowerment for the disenfranchised. For better or worse, the world is leveling due to Globalism. However, America and other over-leveraged countries face this re-balancing of the globe at a time when they have dwindling resources. We can speculate about who and what is to blame for America’s fantastic fall, but for the purposes of this article we shall focus on the obvious signs that the United States is beginning to resemble a Third World country.

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By Doug Hornig

Bud Conrad, chief economist at Casey Research, has been predicting (rather correctly) the dire economic consequences that will result from our mushrooming national debt. Of particular concern is the debacle yet to come, from the future’s unfunded liabilities.

Now, however, he is going to have to pass his Mr. Gloom hat to another contender. Namely, Boston University economics professor Laurence Kotlikoff.

In an article published on Bloomberg.com, Kotlikoff writes, “Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills.”

This is not a news flash. Former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker has been barnstorming the country for the past several years: appearing on every television show that will have him, delivering the same message, trying to educate the American people about the seriousness of our plight.

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By Alexander Green

Could reading an investment newsletter cause you to switch party affiliations or change your vote?

Hardly. Political affiliations are generally a combination of values and interests. Few individuals seriously question their notions of right and wrong or have trouble identifying those policies that further their own self-interest.

That’s why political discussions – even the few conducted at relatively low decibel levels – seldom result in anyone changing his or her mind. But according to Dr. Daniel B. Kline, a professor of economics at George Mason University, perhaps some of us should…

In the May issue of Econ Journal Watch, Dr. Klein cited a recent Zogby International survey, which found that self-identified liberals do very poorly on questions of basic economics.

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By Mario Rizzo

The Keynesian worldview seems to have led to increasing stridency and dogmatism about economic stimulus, which has dominated the headlines for several months. There used to be a joke that you can teach a parrot economics—all it needs to say is “supply and demand.” Now it is even easier to teach a parrot the policy prescription to prevent a major recession: All it needs to say is “stimulus.”

Things have gotten so bad that no dissention can be tolerated.

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By Fitzroy McLean

My wife was born and raised behind the iron curtain. Whereas, I may from time to time rant about the trend towards socialism as unprecedented or shocking, she merely views it as a return to the ¨normal¨ behavior of governments. When we first met I was a flag waving US Army Airborne Ranger celebrating our victory over communism. My conviction that a new era of freedom and democracy was upon us was so absolute that when my wife’s suspicion of all government rose to the surface, I would assume a pedantic tone and explain how she just had the misfortune of growing up under an oppressive regime that did not respect individual liberty or democracy.

My wife, being far wiser than I, would merely shake her head and say, “You can never really trust a government because governments attract the worst elements in society. Governments exist to protect those inside government”. I remember the disdain and pity I felt for such thinking as I arrogantly explained that in America the system was created to limit government. Government in America is designed to be weak.

Imagine how silly I feel now.

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By Brad Thor

No one wants to believe that their government, or the people within it are intentionally trying to ruin their country. We, as Americans, inherently look for the good in people.

Rush has been saying from the get-go that Obama is intentionally destroying the economy and demonizing capitalism. Obama has been called a Socialist, a Marxist and a Communist. I believe the Democratic party does not represent the “nice Democrats next door” at all anymore. Good Democrats have allowed their party to be hijacked. The hijackers are the far (and in some cases not-so-far) left. They are hardcore Statists bent on an endgame utopia with Communism as the model.

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By Dr. Jack Wheeler

It won’t be long until you start seeing bumper stickers, t-shirts, and protest signs saying simply Blow It Up.

This is a prediction, not a provocation, so fascisti prosecutors should look elsewhere for folks to persecute, not here. This is in no way to advocate that someone should take it upon themselves to blow up the Ground Zero Mosque should it be built.

It is only to predict that the outrage over the Ground Zero Mosque is exploding to such an extent that soon, those so outraged will demand that the thing be physically destroyed. Blown to smithereens.

This would require an extremely skilled team of demolition experts, of which I am not one. It would require millions of dollars, which I do not have. But there are such experts, and there are such millionaires, who would be motivated to take whatever action is necessary to prevent a Ground Zero Mosque from ever existing.

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Does he really think our attention spans are THAT short?

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By Dr. Joel Wade

One reason that our founding principles are in such deep trouble today is that many years ago, our parents and grandparents… and great grandparents… conceded to the enemies of freedom the moral high ground.

Those advocating socialism, communism, and fascism were given credibility by the progressive movement, and the progressive movement was given credibility by generations of clueless Americans.

If we are to reclaim the political high ground in the fight for liberty, we must also hold, clearly and unequivocally, the moral high ground as well. Here, therefore is part of what I see as the moral case for capitalism, the moral principles that allow the full creative and productive forces of capitalism to flourish.

The first principle is: Capitalism creates value.

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By Daniel Greenfield

Islam doesn’t just hijack planes, it hijacks the things that mean something to people. The great cities of the world are littered with relics of the Muslim occupation of their sacred places.

Jerusalem, Delhi, Constantinople and Alexandria all testify to the Muslim predilection for taking over other people’s sacred places, and turning them into mosques. It wasn’t enough for Muslims to conquer Jerusalem and subjugate its inhabitants. No, they also had to take the holiest place in Judaism and build a mosque on top of it. Similarly it wasn’t enough for them to conquer and rename Constantinople, they also had to turn the Hagia Sophia into a mosque.

These are not exceptions to the rule. In Asia, the Middle East and Europe, there are numberless examples of the same thing.

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By Dr. Chuck Baldwin

The GOP is frantically searching for the person who will lead them to the Promised Land (translate: White House) in 2012. Barack Obama is leaving a death stench so heavy that even most of the political allies in his own party are asking him to stay away from their reelection campaigns. You gotta give it to Obama: he has done in one term what most Presidents cannot accomplish until their second (lame duck) term. The problem is, the GOP just can’t seem to find their Moses (or even their Ronald Reagan). That means, as far fetched as it sounds now, Obama has a good chance of being reelected. And, once again, when any Democrat candidate for President wins, the GOP will have no one to blame but themselves. 2012 could be another example.

You see, the GOP (including their lackeys at Fox News) either really don’t know what a constitutional conservative looks like, or they do know what he or she looks like and don’t want them leading the party.

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By Intuition

I hold these truths to be self-evident: that I own my body, life, and all products of my labor; that no other person has any claim on such things absent my informed voluntary consent; that I have the right to defend myself against any and all usurpations of my self-ownership by using any force as may be necessary; and that any and all instances where violence is initiated are abjectly immoral in civilized society.

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By Dr. Jack Wheeler

The political problems of America can no longer be answered by the standard or normal interpretation of the Constitution provided by America’s Ruling Class of judges, politicians, pundits, and academics.

So let’s talk about The Structure of Political Revolutions.

America’s problems and political puzzles can only be solved by a paradigm shift to a more fundamental understanding of America’s founding structure, a paradigm shift to Revolutionary Constitutionalism.

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By Jack Kelly

Democrats may have more to fear this fall from disappointed liberals than from the Tea Party, thinks Robert Reich, who was Secretary of Labor during the Clinton administration.

By Jack Kelly

Democrats may have more to fear this fall from disappointed liberals than from the Tea Party, thinks Robert Reich, who was Secretary of Labor during the Clinton administration.

“A friend whom I’ll call David raised a ton of money for Democrats in 2008 and now tells me they can go to hell,” Mr. Reich wrote Monday (8/2) on his blog at the liberal American Prospect, which he co-founded.

He quoted David as saying of Democrats: “They’re all lily-livered wimps, and Obama has the backbone of a worm.”

MSNBC talk show host Ed Schultz said he won’t vote in the midterm elections if Democrats don’t extend unemployment benefits beyond 99 weeks.

“I’m checking out of the Democrats because they are proving to me that they don’t know how to handle these big babies over on the right that say no,” Mr. Schultz said on his radio show July 30.

Liberal disaffection is one reason why President Obama is plumbing polling depths comparable to those to which President Bush sunk in 2006-2008. In the Gallup-USA Today poll released Tuesday (8/03), Mr. Obama’s job approval rating fell to 41 percent, the lowest ever in that poll.

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By Dan Steward

We are told at a young age that we should be seen and not heard. It is constantly, and even worse, surreptitiously thrust into the innermost depths of our skulls that all of us should just sit down, shut up and just take it. We supposedly don’t matter to those obsessed with control over others, who feel that they may become big, by giving their victims the notion that they are all so very small.

Persons hidden far and away in a land separated from us appear to be the ones making all the important decisions. Persons who mistakenly lay claim to knowing what our needs are are busy making the choices for us so we need not busy our pretty little heads about it further. Sure there’s the scripted questions from the Town Halls that the crafty politicos stage for us. Sadly their meeting houses are just a slick mirage to hide their contempt for you.

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It is often said that “we do not negotiate with terrorists.” Normally, this platitude is propagated by government officials to help whip up a sort of nationalistic frenzy in the populace. Its meaning is almost always hollow, however, as governments routinely bribe, support, or otherwise acquiesce to terrorist organizations. Nor is it lost on the anarchists that government itself is the greatest terrorist organization in existence.

The theory, though, against negotiating with terrorists is sound. What we relinquish to the state today only helps to make it stronger. Furthermore, when a terrorist organization’s threats are succumbed to the natural result is the unintended consequence of encouraging greater and more frequent threats. When an individual submits to a government edict or tax in the attempt to avoid a more barbarous response, the end result is the transfer of state aggression to another unfortunate individual in lieu of oneself.

The situation we find ourselves in today is one where previous generations have kicked the can instead of slaying the beast. Now this parasite, known as the state, has grown so large that it will kill the host, the productive class, unless it is stopped.

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By Ron Holland

Tradition says when Lord Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown back in 1781 the British played this tune as they marched out of the fortifications in surrender to the American army. Whether this actually happened is open to debate but the loss suffered by the great British Empire to ragtag American forces certainly seemed to the British like the world had indeed turned upside down.

Today another great empire is getting ready to bite the dust because the power of its media, military, political and financial establishments are perceived to be in the process of collapse. Our brave new world of instant communications, decentralized resistance, an open Internet media, political corruption and worldwide recession/depression is causing Americans and our enemies to rethink the benefits and fear of a broken empire that may well be in the death throes of its existence just like the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Steve Bridges as Barack Obama – HILARIOUS!

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