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Why Taxes Are Evil

Well, we all think that, don't we? But most of us have been taught that they're a necessry evil. I wonder... After reading this article which states that "Dozens of academic studies -- old and new -- have found clear…
Money-in perspective

Now this is a perspective that I hadn't thought of before. Entire article here Currency exchange rates do not have absolute value, only relative value. By that I mean currencies are valued based only on the relative…
End of the Dollar?

It only took four years, from 1919 to 1923, for the Germans to wipe out the Reichsmark, and they didn't have an electronic printing press. ~Alf Field, gold ana…
How Much is a Trillion?

I just watched a video posted by ProvokingThought and was amazed. Do YOU know how much a trillion is? Well, a stack of a trillion dollar bills will reach a third of the way to the moon, and a trillion seconds is almos…
Unimaginably Big Numbers!~

Visualize one million dollars in $100 bills laid end-to-end. You would need 20 minutes to walk the length of this line of cash; it's about one mile. Walk a line of $100 bills the length of the federal debt and it would…
Economics--CAN the Government Support You?

An excerpt from my economics lesson that seemed timely. ...government “aid” to business is sometimes as much to be feared as government hostility. This applies as much to government subsidies as to government loans. The…
TANSTAAFL

TANSTAAFL -- That means, There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. This is a pretty neat book that I'm reading with the kids right now. It has a very good explanation of inflation, and the part that has impressed…
Economic Stimulus

We received our economic stimulus check today. Two days late. How do I know that? Because they sent us a letter about a week ago saying that we could expect it by July 5. Now maybe I'm not seeing the big picture, but I…
The Whole DOES NOT Equal the Sum of the Parts

Surely I'm not the only one this happens to. One little piece of something breaks. I go online and search for that part, only to find that that one part will actually end up costing me more than it does to buy the whol…