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Econ Militia: The Federal Reserve System Is A Ponzi Scheme EconMilitia 803 views It takes just 5 and a half minutes to lay out the case against the Federal Reserve System's massive purchases of Treasury bonds. The Ponzi scheme they've undertaken is pro...
Econ Militia: What is the Federal Reserve System? EconMilitia 801 views How influential is the Federal Reserve System, the US central bank? Central banks typically establish credit for the government with other governments, and store tax recei...
Econ Militia: What is a central bank? EconMilitia 498 views Central banks used to be places where the government stored their tax revenues, and places which provided for credit with foreign governments. How is it we have changed th...
Econ Militia: What is the Federal Reserve discount rate? EconMilitia 223 views So why did the Federal Reserve Bank increase their discount rate? The discount rate is what the Fed charges member banks to borrow money from them. The other rate, the fe...
Econ Militia: Celebrating the Massachusetts Moment! EconMilitia 145 views Scott Brown trounced Democrat Martha Coakley to win the open Senate seat in yesterday's special election in Massachusetts. The special election, to fill the vacancy left b...
Econ Militia: It's like bugs under our skin! EconMilitia 928 views As details of the health care destruction acts continue to emerge from behind closed doors in Congress, one thing is glaringly clear: Virginia will get screwed. Mark Warne...
Econ Militia: How does Nancy Pelosi make YOU feel? EconMilitia 292 views Nancy Pelosi drives us nuts. Her voice, her pinched little face, her policies, they all add up to a seething, bubbling cauldron of disgust. We suspect Harry Reid would li...
Econ Militia: How do we end the recession? EconMilitia 660 views Today's unemployment numbers included that word we all hate to see: unexpected. They were "unexpectedly" worse. If you watch the Economists' Militia, though, you weren't ...
Econ Militia: Does cutting taxes spur growth or cause harm? EconMilitia 408 views The two dominant political parties in the United States embrace different economic ideas. Democrat Barack Obama claims the government has to spend our way out of the reces...
Econ Militia: What is a progressive income tax? Do progressive income taxes make sense? EconMilitia 644 views Ever wonder how we came to have a tiered income tax in the United States? Why is our tax code so convoluted? In this episode, the citizen economists take a look at progre...

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When politicians and pundits use misleading information to push their agendas, we work to give simple explanations about economic principles: unemployment, GDP, nationalization, health care, stimulus, quantitative easing, and other topics. We tackle them all!

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