Recent content by jon_perez

Ron Paul has a hard time endorsing Trump even if Trump's foreign policy is so similar to his probably because Trump savaged Rand and they took it personally. You can't blame the dad for feeling that way about how his son was treated and it is Trump's fault for relying on such tactics. But maybe...

Rand is most certainly not his father. He a politician through-and-through. Someone who holds his finger up in the air to see which way the wind blows and positions himself accordingly. His dad has principles and knows exactly where he stands, never trying to gauge what the popular opinion...

There is Paul the Principled and then there is Paul the Panderer. It's surprising how many people on this forum are apologists for the latter. People get the government that they deserve.

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Schiff got it right once - the housing crash, but has been so convinced in and full of himself ever since. The best time to buy gold is when Schiff finally capitulates and sells his, and the best time to short the dollar is also when Schiff gives up and stops saying the dollar will crash...

BAH.... it should be obvious to all but the most blinded that the ONLY thing this current crop of Republicans care about is to undermine Obama no matter what. Why do they hate him so much? Maybe because he's black and popular with the youth? I remember the scare stories about how Obama would...

You're "thinking" Ron Paul would agree with the letter, huh? Why don't we let Dad Paul himself make a statement on that. By his silence alone it means he probably totally disagrees with his unprincipled, finger-in-the-wind son, Rand.

Not a "plot" but true, more or less. Regulatory capture. It definitely feels faster than what the so-called inflation indicators might suggest. Just a disagreement on term usage. If inflation means increase in money supply, then WTH term do you use to denote an increase in price? I never...

Yes, for failing to distinguish between color of skin versus cultural proclivities.

LOL! The thing I like about Ron Paul (unlike Rand) is that no one has to be an apologist for him.

Rand Paul is not his dad. I NEVER believed in him. Rand is just your typical pandering politico.

http://io9.com/5963263/how-nasa-will-build-its-very-first-warp-drive Harold White has calculated that a hypothetical Alcubierre Warp Drive need not be the size of Jupiter and is now trying to create a microscopic proof of concept in the lab that space can be warped. In the case of a warp...

In Gary Shilling's "Age of Deleveraging", he says that a big reason for the inflation in the 70s was inflation expectations. Because people got used to inflation they expected more of it, stocked up on inventory, causing shortages and further aggravating inflation. In Japan, it seems the...

What is interesting is that Warren Buffet's congressman dad, Howard Buffet, was very right-wing in his economic philosophy (gold standard, no deficits, etc...) and would definitely fit very well as a "tea party" candidate today. To hear Warren tell the story, his dad was very principled and...

My understanding was that the Fed has control over short term interest rates but not over long term ones. They jacked up short term rates to fight the inflation/stagflation in the 70s, but the side effect of that was that the market bid up long term rates sky-high. In the documentary...