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Restaurant Menu Prices 1938 26 Aug 2013 | 10:39 am
I was searching through some picture albums of my parents from way back and ran into some restaurant menus from the depression era of late 1930's.. The first 3 pictures are from the Manhattan Restau...
MY Way Or The Highway 12 Aug 2013 | 08:36 am
Newspapers around the world report how Russia granted Snowden political asylum for a year snubbing President Obama. That’s really not the case. In order for Snowden to get to his destination in Sout...
The Student Loan Bubble 5 Aug 2013 | 08:51 am
Students are offered college tuition loans guaranteed by the Federal government. Some students have anywhere from 150k to 300K in loans. If the student pays it off in 10 years, that’s about $1,820 to...
Fine Line Between "Administrative" and Congressional Law. 1 Aug 2013 | 09:27 am
Congress passes our laws and most people think that whatever the government directs them to do is the because of laws directly passed by Congress. That’s not quite right. Congress creates an execut...
The Coming Pension Disaster 20 Jul 2013 | 11:41 pm
Detroit bites the dust and the one question that no one will bring up, is; “Where is the money coming from to pay the city’s promised retirement benefits?” 10 cents on the dollar won't cut it. This ba...
Poorly Thought Through Concepts 14 Jul 2013 | 08:20 am
Many people in the United States think it would be great to give the rest of the world Democracy. Right now, millions of Egyptian Muslims are rioting, who by just voting and winning one election, thin...
Who Pays Taxes, Is The Real Game 30 Jun 2013 | 08:47 am
Buy a house, for 600k in California pay a property tax of $6,000 a year. Buy a car for 40K. Pay $4,000 in sales tax. Buy $10,000 of taxable goods add on another $1,000. Income tax on 100K add on about...
Commodity Prices Are Dropping 23 Jun 2013 | 01:19 am
Gold, Platinum and Silver have taken quite a hit in the last few weeks. To a lot of people these metals are investment and as such, they follow the prices quite intensely. I know my wife has been trac...
The Deflation Factor 18 Jun 2013 | 09:46 am
Many people believe that the US could be facing deflation similar to what happened in the 1930’s. And of course Ben always claims he’s running the printing presses to keep that from happening. Here i...
The Economy Is Improving? 3 Jun 2013 | 05:19 am
I can’t quite figure it out. It looks like they added more punch to the punch bowl. The party is on again. Housing prices are up 10% and stocks are climbing ever higher. It’s kind of hard to figure ou...
