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    What are you listening to?

    Not into chemtrails, but this song is awesome, Solar Flare by 311. I would love to see it in a Revolution-related video. YouTube - Solar Flare - 311
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    Investing book recommendations?

    The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham is a real good fundamental book on investing. It's by no means an Austrian Economics book, but it's not at odds with it. It teaches you the basics, as well as has investing cases from history, and talks about investing versus speculating from Graham's...
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    College Debt: Who's To Blame For Students' Suprime Loans?

    Ok, nevermind it's at the end of the article, here's the problem, what do you do with this degree: interdisciplinary degree in religious and women’s studies
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    College Debt: Who's To Blame For Students' Suprime Loans?

    I really hate articles like this where they talk about a huge student debt burden and how the student then after graduating can't even pay it back. They don't even mention what the student majored in, was it art history or what?
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    The Super-Rich Want You to Hate Taxes So They Can Keep Your Money

    We both hate the corporatists and the empire. They want the government to control their lives and take care of them. We want liberty and to take care of ourselves.
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    Scott Ritter Charged In Child-Sex Sting

    I'm sure most of you are aware of Scott Ritter, the former UN Weapons Inspector and loud critic of the Iraq War. I just found out about this story and find it somewhat suspicious, not only because of Scott being a loud critic of the government, but by looking at his affidavit his alleged screen...
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    See Obama lie - 8 seperate times!

    http://www.breitbart.tv/the-c-span-lie-did-obama-really-promise-televised-healthcare-negotiations/
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    Kids don't want money...

    I think people have just been conditioned with their 9-5's to think it somehow weird to do something else to earn money.
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    FED: Bernanke reassures economists Fed to wind down programs

    Honestly here, I'm not asking a rhetorical question, just how do they plan on doing that? Increase capital requirements and destroy the bailed out banks? Sell back the worthless assets that they've bought up?
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    Sen. DeMint Destroys Bernanke And The Fed!

    Thanks for sharing this, Jim was on top of his game, my favorite question: "Do you believe money is an instrument of government to be manipulated as necessary to calibrate the collective economic behavior of the public with the perceived financial needs of government?"
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    Schiff to debate 2 Fed officials on Sunday

    Does anyone know if there is a video somewhere of the actual debate?
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    not sure what to do

    I'd play it safe - you know it's going to cost you 3500 - so stash that away. Keep a buffer of cash and then you can put some other cash in gold and silver.
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    Congress Passes Banking Amendment Requiring Reserves of $1 for Every $12 They Lend

    According to Basel I rules, there is a base requirement of 8-percent with different asset classes having different weights (a 100% weight = 100% * 8% = 8%) Residential mortages have a weight of 50%, 4% capital requirement Asset backed securities rated AAA or GSE-issued only have a weight of...
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    Senate Budget Cmte. Hearing on the National Debt

    I was going to post this as a reply to the thread Obama To Announce "War On Deficits" At The State Of The Union, but decided it deserves its own thread. Anyone catch the senate budget committee hearing the other night on the national debt? They had David Walker as part of their panel - I found...
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