In Freedom’s Cause

Cash is faster, safer, carries no interest fees, late fees, no annual fees, and cannot be overdrawn. Identity theft doesn’t affect cash. Furthermore, it’s private and doesn’t leave traces for big brother to put into a database. Most of all, it will keep prices down.

This may not make sense to someone who is viewing this information for the first time. These people confronting Greenspan may even seem silly or crazy; you may even think they hate this country. They do not, and they love this country.
Our own constitution says that only congress has the power to coin [...]

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/09/16/cngreen116.xml
By Tim Shipman, in Washington
Last Updated: 12:10am BST 16/09/2007

Alan Greenspan, the former head of the US Federal Reserve, has issued a withering attack on President Bush’s handling of the American economy.
The man credited with guiding the US through two decades of economic boom says Bush and his inner circle put their political priorities ahead [...]

Source: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article2461214.ece

September 16, 2007
Graham Paterson
AMERICA’s elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil.
In his long-awaited memoir, to be published tomorrow, Greenspan, a Republican whose 18-year tenure as head of the US Federal Reserve was [...]

Antithesis, thesis, synthesis - the typical approach. As usual, people believe that things from the government are free, as if the government is anything more than a collection of citizens. People usually want everything provided for them, but only after they get used to it and expect it. When [...]

From: http://www.financialnews-us.com/?page=ushome&contentid=2448565379
Renée Schultes
16 Aug 2007
Carry trade unwinds as yen hits one-year high An anonymous investor has placed a bet on an index of Europe’s top 50 stocks falling by a third by the end of September, as world equity markets plunged for a third day and volatility hit a three-year high.
The mystery [...]