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It doesn't. If the bank is deemed viable with strong balance sheet... the private market might be able to lend it some money if it experiences a bank run.... if not... the Federal Reserve might step in and lend some money... if the bank is just plain crappy... then the FDIC pushes a takeover of...

The definition is correct. I think the key phrase is "while maintaining the simultaneous obligation to redeem all demand deposits immediately upon demand" People's deposits are an liability of the bank. Under a Fractional reserve regime... it can handle the day to day transactions with a 10...

Well, that lady scared everyone into hating marijuana again....

Huh, you don't buy shares of the Dow... It's a stock market index. The chart is labeled wrong.

This one is good too: http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/328/ghelicopterbigps7.jpg

bumpity bump.... This is an extremely informative video. We can make good use of the advice they give. It's not manipulation, it's taking advantage of innate human nature. Everyone else is doing it.

The first guy had a great point of framing... The democrat's argument (and Ron Paul's) of the war in Iraq actually helps the Republicans. (It doesn't serve our interests, war is unwinnable, and it's illegitimate)

No need to put quotations around the word racist. The newsletters are racist. They contradict core libertarian principles of individualism and non-collectivism. The newsletters are not written in Ron Paul's language though.

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/442560-ron-paul-bridging-gap-19th-century-treason.html "Ron Paul: Bridging the Gap to 19th Century Treason" Some points: The Civil War: "Does this Paul smear game never get old?" Apparently not, and for good reason. I was actually looking Paul...

He also mentions that the free market tends to be supply side..., which increases the divide between the rich and the poor. Demand side policies put a check against the tendency for the free market to make the rich richer and the poor poorer, is what he says. and: "making the poor richer would...

Okay, what happens if there is a whole big economic depression... and there's no more investment, like in the 1930's? Keynesian's would advocate government spending to prime the economy.

How to refute keynesian demand side economics? The person gives this example. I have 10,000 dollars in capital, but I don't want to invest it in a grocery store, because there is no demand. The govt taxes me 2,000 dollars to give to the poor to create demand for groceries. Now I can invest 8,000...

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http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10339398 "Saxo Bank, for example, predicts, along with a further doubling of grain prices, that Ron Paul, the Texan Republican, will be elected president."

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