99 Problems (Explicit Political Remix)

This is not fair to Obama, and it's vulgar, but it's as funny as $hit.  Disclaimer:  this is not an endorsement for Romney--or Obama.  A friend forwarded it to me.


http://youtu.be/2C22wBf2h5k

Risk on the rise as political leaders give in to mob rule

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/ed4439d4-fbeb-11e0-9283-00144feab49a.html#axzz1bm7b77FN

US Opens Reserves to Release 30M Barrels of Oil

Apparently I'm not alone in my opinion that tapping into our nation's emergency oil reserves was a political move, and not an emergency. 

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/StevenChu-StrategicPetroleumReserv-MiddleEast-Liby/2011/06/23/id/401112

Niall Ferguson again

I've posted about Niall Ferguson, Harvard Professor and historian, several times and this is a good interview on US fiscal policies, sovereign debt crisis, financial, political, and tax reform.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03CB8pVJkI8&feature=player_embedded




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmOSaAYb4Qk&feature=player_embedded

“Fiscal tightening is baked in the cake. Tax increases are coming and coming soon… The US has a kind of stay of execution while the European crisis unfolds, but at some point the nasty fiscal arithmetic will get everyone, including the U.S… Treasuries are a safe haven the way Pearl Harbor was a safe haven in 1941. It’s safe until it’s not safe anymore.”

Frightening quote

Anybody find this quote disturbing--and too close to home?

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

–Joseph Goebbels