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Currency Controls and Other Mistakes

October 29th, 2011

By Dan Miller Here is a link to a good nuts and bolts article by Daniel, a blogger in Venezuela who writes at Venezuela News and Views. He also runs a small manufacturing business and has to import material not available in Venezuela for the stuff he makes. Bureaucratic controls on access to foreign currency […]

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Tags: bureaucracy, controls, currency, distortion, foreign, regulations, tax code
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Still More Domestic Terrorism Has Been Revealed

March 20th, 2011

By Dan Miller When Will They Ever Learn? According to the Citizen Times and as also noted in the Daily Beast, a North Carolina man recently found guilty of minting and distributing “Liberty Dollars” was, as stated by U.S. Attorney Anne Tompkins, a domestic terrorist. The conviction resulted from an investigation which began in 2005. […]

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Tags: coins, currency, distributing, Liberty Dollars, minting, terrorist, von NotHaus
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In Which I Get a Question Answered on PJTV

January 11th, 2011

By Brianna Aubin A couple of weeks ago, the Front Page did a segment on how China might well be one huge investment bubble right now, with currency inflation, bad debt on the government books, and a property bubble larger than the one we had in the U.S. So I commented: Thanks for going into what […]

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Tags: bonds, China, currency, debt, financial, inflation, markets, PJTV, U.S.
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Drunkblogging a Few Modest Proposals

October 5th, 2010

By Dan Miller Citizens of the world: It is time we make ourselves more equal! And perhaps relocate the UN to Somalia. The world is so screwed up that even our highly intelligent and resourceful President Obama can’t deal with its myriad complexities. Things need to be simplified and a drunk, a lunatic, or a […]

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Tags: currency, DPRK, drunkblogging, Europe, Haiti, poverty, satire, Somalia, UN
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More on Money

November 3rd, 2009

By Brian Bagent Love him or hate him, this latest by Glenn Beck must be watched. He gives an excellent synopsis of the financial mess we now find ourselves in. In addition, he gives some historical perspective both of the Jimmy Carter/Paul Volcker years of inflation and high interest as well as of how the […]

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Tags: currency, Glenn Beck, inflation
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