Archive for February, 2010

We Can’t Wish Away Al Gore

February 28, 2010
By Illiquid Assets

This is a Response to Al Gore’s February 27th, 2010 Op-Ed “We Can’t Wish Away Climate Change” in the NY Times – Here “It would be an enormous relief if the recent attacks on the science of global warming actually indicated that we do not face an unimaginable calamity requiring large-scale, preventive measures to...
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Inflation vs Deflation: How you can have Both at the Same Time

February 19, 2010
By Illiquid Assets
Inflation vs Deflation: How you can have Both at the Same Time

This week’s economic data from the US shows how you can have two market forces in play at the same time that seem to be contradictory to each other and here is why. You can have inflation based on energy and commodity pressures and deflation in consumer pricing at the same time based on...
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Teach the children quietly for someday sons and daughters will rise up and fight while we stood still…

February 6, 2010
By Illiquid Assets
Teach the children quietly for someday sons and daughters will rise up and fight while we stood still…

The lyrics in the title of this post are from a song called Silent Running by Mike and the Mechanics and I think it is an important message to conservatives and all democracy and freedom loving people who believe in the strength of capitalism and it’s opportunities that allow one to shape their own...
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Two Places, Two Statements, One is a Lie

February 2, 2010
By Illiquid Assets

Timmy Geithner testified in Congress that there needs to be a fee on Banks to get all the TARP funds paid back while his boss, President Obama, announces at a Townhall in New Hampshire 30 Billion from TARP funds for SMB lending. So which is it? Is the Administration trying to get taxpayers their...
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US Budget: First Glance

February 1, 2010
By Illiquid Assets
US Budget: First Glance

I am reading the entire US Budget submitted by the Administration today, it is a big document coming in at 2,400 pages or so, and I will posting a series of articles about what I find. My mission is to see how much I can trim out of the Federal Budget with little or...
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