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On preparing for an apocolypse: I strongly recommend that, if you have or can browse through a copy of _Ayn Rand Answers_ (ed. Robert Mayhew), read the question and answer on pp. 43-44 about the inflationary crisis and threat of nuclear war during the 1970's and early 1980's.

@Porklore This is B.S., and the amount of evidence this is based on is...zero. One can find evidence in reliable history books that the ideologies of the two parties evolved over time, so that eventually, the Democrats tended to be liberal whereas the Republicans tended to be conservative, wherea...

This is BULLSHIT. Because some (perhaps many) people can't tell the difference, the two have more in common than some people care to admit? That's a clear case of the second-hander's notion that truth is a matter of popular vote. If one digs to essentials, one is in favor of life, liberty, and pr...

OWS is mostly the nihilist core of the left. It is also an indication of why it a mistake for a pro-capitalist to support a merely negative group (such as an anti-Federal-Reserve group) that has no clear positive ideology. Such groups unthinkingly but easily mix in with these nihilists.

"What's good for Wall St. is not good for America."

This is the only statement I think is clearly wrong. Wall-St. dollar holdings devaluing and government-"encouraged" spending is not good for Wall St. in the long term. What's good for Wall St. in the long-term *is* good for America in the long ...

Evidence for the outright thuggish nature of the current administration keeps piling up.

@Enoch2 Yes, you see, the politicians and bureaucrats discussed, and economists like Krugman, are reasonable *because* they take Keynes and Marx on faith. Brilliant.

@TienesWhey This is ignorant. There *are* people living in the middle east with Western first names. They are not the majority, but they do exist.

Excellent.

Money is not wealth--unless it is a real commodity, such as gold.

Gary Johnson seems to be easily the best candidate so far, despite that fact that he has not indicated a desire in his "50 laboratories of innovation" idea to limit the power of state governments.

Thanks for the video.

But here is a question about "The Day the Dollar Died." Why would China ever *announce* that it will stop buying U.S. Treasuries? Wouldn't China know that announcing it would likely cause a panic and a sudden plunge in the value of its U.S. Treasury holdings? Woudn't China s...