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Krugman gets to Bitcoin

And it’s not pretty: But does that make the [Bitcoin] experiment a success? Um, no. What we want from a monetary system isn’t to make people holding money rich; we want it to facilitate transactions...

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Ron Paul Music Machine

This video of Ron Paul, put together by TPM Think Progress, put a bopping electro-beat to strung together excerpts of the GOP Presidential candidates’ declarations that, well — everything in civil...

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Ron Paul Music Machine (continued)

More on the Alex Jones-like cult devotion to Ron Paul in 2011 tunes written for and about him. No one else, not even pop star celebrities, comes close. The best exude sly bits of humor in the lyrics, a...

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Hellbent on destroying themselves

I regularly run into people who rant against the government, vote Republican, who’s lives are utterly dependent upon various aspect of the social safety net. The working class’ earning power has been...

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Today’s dose of stupid

At this juncture I have no tolerance for right wingers, theocrats and stupid people. Wish it were otherwise but it can’t be helped. I’m flawed this way. Anyway, the spam filter caught this bit over the...

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The crazies go into action

Gold and silver prices twitched when Ben Bernanke indicated the Fed might try to help the economy … The price of gold and other precious metals jumped Friday, after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben...

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The Paste Eaters

When you have to start you column like this (it’s like starting one with “It’s not always a bad idea to beat your wife”): Gold is not just a lunatic fringe investment Gold is often derisively referred...

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I was readin’ Atlas Shrugged, how the rich all get mugged…

I am so there at the Laemmle. For the SchadenFreude. If only they could’ve gotten Marvel Comics to do it, the world would be a different place. Or not. I gave a brief chat at the Cato Institute once....

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The Nihilists

Sunday was a fine day in Pasadena, warm but not incinerating like most of late summer. You could feel the fall coming on as the sun set, the heat from the afternoon leaving for the sky. And so the...

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The Gold Bugs

My since long exited drummer was a gold bug. That is, he was a Fed hater, a true believer in the idea that the US should return to the gold standard and that “fiat money” was a fraud. Perhaps not that...

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