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Peter Griffin Gets Rick Rolled

Peter Griffin gets Rick Rolled, literally.

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I have been personally Rick Rolled at least 5 times. I am always initially pissed, but then I am soon find myself listening to the song for the millionth time. It's oddly hypnotic.

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  Hitchens owns "Fascist Crackpot"

  A clip from the 2007 Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at a panel on religion and culture. A "Fascist Crackpot" approaches the panel and gets own...

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  I think the term fascist is over used. Hitchen's intellectual hero in his youth, Trotsky, was denounced as a fascist by Moscow. Can we reserve the term for real fascists, not simply for people we don't like or disagree with?

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  John Stossel - Libertarians In Charge

  John Stossel visualizes a libertarian world. http://www.LibertyPen.com

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  joepeeler34 said:

  @macofdeath You need to look up the definition of communism. That means the state sets all prices and wages. It means the state directs the means of production. It means there is no profit/loss system. The Communist party started moving away from real communism in the mid-70's.

  All systems utili...

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The Story of Your Enslavement

We can only be kept in the cages we do not see. A brief history of human enslavement - up to and including your own. From Freedomain Radio, the lar...

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@TheAnubisDrake Perhaps the idea of a Protectorate instead of the state/government is the correct way.

I think the idea of "limited government" is an oxymoron. Governments govern, i.e. rule. It will not be limited for long.

I think the idea of a Protectorate that only responds to the iniation ...

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Keiser Report: State Of The Banana (E242)

In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the State of the Banana Republic, the blowout at Apple with its profits 'trapped' o...

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Why should Apple pay taxes on profits generated overseas? A corporate income tax is moronic. It's a production tax. If we want companies to repatriate capital, lower the corporate income tax. Consumption taxes are far better.

This whole notion that people who produce "owe" the rest of us a perc...

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  Keiser Report: State Of The Banana (E242)

  In this episode, Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, discuss the State of the Banana Republic, the blowout at Apple with its profits 'trapped' o...

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  The crap about Apple almost made me not watch the rest. What they are "giving back" are products to consumers in exchange for paper notes. It's a trade, not charity.

  Yes, and Apple is so "stupid" that they have 100 billion in the bank. If I were a shareholder, I would expect a dividend, but no o...

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Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1988

Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1988

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@Swampwabbit77 You've been voting since 1979? That explains the mess we are in.

Gingrich is corrupt. He is the only House speaker in history to be brought up on ethics charges. His own party turned against him. They called him erratic and unreliable. He was and is.

You are only listening to his...

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  Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1988

  Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1988

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  @Swampwabbit77 It's you people that are insane.

  You have the exact same foreign policy as Obama. He believes in nation-building. He believes in propping up tyrants in the M.E. that do the bidding of U.S. govt. He believes in foreign-aid. He thinks that the U.S. govt. should police the world.

  Y...

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  Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1988

  Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1988

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  @Swampwabbit77 The problem with your generation is that you have been brainwashed into thinking that the D/R party establishments are all that different. They aren't. They just play around the edges of a New Deal/Progressive era structure. Why would you think that Newt opposes that basic structur...

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  Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1988

  Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1988

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  @Swampwabbit77 Why did Newt call the GSE's (Freddie/Fannie) model of public-private partnerships ideal in an interview with a media relation's person at Freddie Mac in April 2007? He said that if NASA had that model, they would be on Mars. MARS! Can we send Gingrich there.

  Gingrich supported the...

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  Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1988

  Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1988

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  @Swampwabbit77 You aren't well-informed. You get your news from corporate/state media. It shows.

  Do remember that Gingrich turned on those class of '94 members who actually wanted to follow through on the Contract with America? He called them "cannibals" and "extremists." Don't count on FauxNews...

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  Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1988

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  @Swampwabbit77 It's your generation and older that has given us this system. What does that say about your collective intelligence?

  Newt and Romney are both statists. Neither offers any real cuts in the trillions. They want to play around the edges of the same system. Neither will change the unc...

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  @Swampwabbit77 Newt is a statist. Newt has a progressive mindset. He has a government solution to every problem. He's a Rockefeller Republican. He's conning people like you with vocabulary.

  Look at what he stands for. He supports public-private partnerships, mandates, subsidies (see ethanol and ...

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  Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1988

  Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1988

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  @Big3News Don't pretend you aren't defending Newt. It's obvious.

  The point about marching with the party in lockstep is a good one. But where does Gingrich deviate? It always seems to be on matters of expaning government.

  He critized R's for not going along on the prescription drug benefit in ...

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Against Corporate Income Taxes

If you're gonna tax, tax THIS, not THIS.

There have been some commenters repeating unsourced anubis2814 disinfo. So here are the corporate tax rat...

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joepeeler34 said:

@quatroseven Yes, consumption taxes make far more sense. But it would have to be very high with current spending levels. I would like to get rid of most taxes in favor a a flat consumption tax that is very low. There is a lot of cutting to be done. But on the bright side federal government spendi...

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  Against Corporate Income Taxes

  If you're gonna tax, tax THIS, not THIS.

  There have been some commenters repeating unsourced anubis2814 disinfo. So here are the corporate tax rat...

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  joepeeler34 said:

  @NyQuil012 If you are desirous of confiscating as much as you can from those who have more than you, the way to do it isn't by production taxes. That results in less wealth creation for everyone. The supply of goods will be lower all else being equal.

  If you want to punish them (I assume that i...

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  FULL NBC GOP Debate Tampa Florida January 23 2012

  From: The University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida

  Originally Aired: 9:00 PM ET on NBC

  Sponsors: The Tampa Bay Times, NBC News, the National J...

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  @saxophone323 Gingrich is corrupt. He's also a statist. He has a government solution for everything. He's a crackpot. He's conning people. He's not a free market man. He's a corporatist. He's not a constitutionalist. He's thinks the Federal Reserve can plan the economy.

  Gingrich is Obama is Romn...

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  CNBC 26 Jan 2012

  Go to http://peterschiffchannel.b... for more

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  Notice how the host never interrupted the other guy while he spoke while constantly interrupting Peter? It's due to two factors: (1) They and their buddies on Wall Street need more suckers, so they must be positive on the economy and U.S. stocks (2) They are ideologically predisposed (brainwashed...

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The Most Persistent Economic Fallacy of All Time!

From a lecture given by Dr. Milton Friedman in Erie, Pennsylvania (1978).

This is essentially a restatement of the "parable of the broken window."...

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@DoneWithDogma Oh, you admit that there are millions of regulations, but you want to say they aren't enforced. A lot of the destructive ones are. They aren't making us safer. And the large corporations typically control the regulators anyway. It's a predictable outcome.

The only regulation that ...

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  The Most Persistent Economic Fallacy of All Time!

  From a lecture given by Dr. Milton Friedman in Erie, Pennsylvania (1978).

  This is essentially a restatement of the "parable of the broken window."...

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  @DoneWithDogma And if you want to bemoan the corporatist/socialist hybrid economy we live in, look to your ideological ancestors. The New Deal/Progressive eras spawned a great increase in subsidies, state-sanctioned cartels (see Federal Reserve system), public-private partnerships, regulations to...

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  The Most Persistent Economic Fallacy of All Time!

  From a lecture given by Dr. Milton Friedman in Erie, Pennsylvania (1978).

  This is essentially a restatement of the "parable of the broken window."...

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  @DoneWithDogma Deregulation? What planet do you live on? Go check the Federal Register of regulations. It hasn't declined. The two presidents who increased the regulatory state the fastest in last 40-years were GWB and Nixon. You aren't entitled to your own facts.

  Go check the growth of state, ...

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  The Most Persistent Economic Fallacy of All Time!

  From a lecture given by Dr. Milton Friedman in Erie, Pennsylvania (1978).

  This is essentially a restatement of the "parable of the broken window."...

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  @DoneWithDogma You don't care about evidence from europe that private prisons don't cause increased incarcerations by themselves because it contradicts your claims and your ideology. That's the truth of it.

  The drug laws were in effect before private prisons became plentiful. About half of all i...

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  The Most Persistent Economic Fallacy of All Time!

  From a lecture given by Dr. Milton Friedman in Erie, Pennsylvania (1978).

  This is essentially a restatement of the "parable of the broken window."...

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  @DoneWithDogma Some european countries have more private prisons per capita than the U.S. Their prison populations haven't grown near as fast. That leads me to believe it's something else.

  Your baseline year needs to go further back to the beginning of the war on drugs. That and mandatory minimu...

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  The Most Persistent Economic Fallacy of All Time!

  From a lecture given by Dr. Milton Friedman in Erie, Pennsylvania (1978).

  This is essentially a restatement of the "parable of the broken window."...

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  @DoneWithDogma Fire departments can be handled privately, too. Ambulance services are contracted out to private companies already. In the case of fires, you pay for insurance to private fire companies. City governments can contract with private fire companies as well.

  The solution doesn't have t...

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  The Most Persistent Economic Fallacy of All Time!

  From a lecture given by Dr. Milton Friedman in Erie, Pennsylvania (1978).

  This is essentially a restatement of the "parable of the broken window."...

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  @DoneWithDogma

  And Ayn Rand (this appears to be the only classical liberal that leftists are aware of) wasn't an advocate of a stateless society. She was a minarchist, not an anarchist.

  I am not in favor of a government. I am in favor of a Protectorate. The difference is the latter never initia...

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  The Most Persistent Economic Fallacy of All Time!

  From a lecture given by Dr. Milton Friedman in Erie, Pennsylvania (1978).

  This is essentially a restatement of the "parable of the broken window."...

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  @DoneWithDogma "Quite obviously?" The depression lasted two decades. The real economy didn't begin to grow until 1947--after spending was slashed, price controls ended (mostly), and other New Deal programs ended.

  Hoover was a progressive as well. Roosevelt ran on shrinking government and cutting...

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joepeeler34 commented 4 days ago

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Sen. Rand Paul on Hannity on Fox News - 1/25/12

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@sonnybrown No, Rand just dials it down a notch with the rhetoric. He tries to make it more palatable to Americans' ears. He's the same guy as his father. Ron just offers up the raw truth. I think they are a good tagteam.

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  Peter Schiff, Rt America - 25 January 2012

  Go to http://peterschiffchannel.b... for details

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  @tomperanteau Sure, they are currently debasing the dollar as a matter of policy. Prices would be falling right now if not for the FED's money printing--though they don't literally print the money. It's digital accounting money. Only about 3% of the money supply is tangible paper notes.

  I think ...

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  Peter Schiff, Rt America - 25 January 2012

  Go to http://peterschiffchannel.b... for details

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  One person who saw this video has Stockholm Syndrome. It has fallen in love with it's captors.

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  Peter Schiff, Rt America - 25 January 2012

  Go to http://peterschiffchannel.b... for details

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  @tomperanteau I don't think they will let the dollar completely collapse. I think it will take a severe beating, then the planners will have to grudgingly go back to gold/silver.

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  'US sanctions to starve Iranian people to death'

  Millions of new jobs, manufacturing back on track, the war in Iraq over and Bin Laden gone. Barack Obama has set out his stall for re-election - an...

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  This guy gets some things right, but he's too much of a socialist. I'm with him on SOME of the rich benefitting from the monetary system and corporatist (mandates, public-private partnerships, subsidies, etc.) system in place. But if you are asking for government to create jobs or give you one, y...

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  Gingrich staffer admits claim was wrong

  A claim Newt Gingrich made about offering ABC character witnesses to deny his ex-wife's allegations is false.

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  @kzanbusiness Stewart would be fair, but Bashir is a demagogic hack.

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Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1988

Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1988

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@Big3News Well, Newt is a neo-con now. He's been a one-worlder for decades. He's always been a Rockefeller Republican. He drew up the Contract with America to get power. Why did Gingrich turn on members of the class of '94 who wanted to follow through on it with legislation? He called them "canni...

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  @Big3News By that standard, is most of Reagan's administration credible given that 13 of them were convicted of crimes as a result of Iran-Contra.

  And Gingrich is a "pandering slimy politician." He's the example for all other slimy politicians to aspire to.

  Gingrich is not a free market constit...

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  @23294virgo Drudge could have linked to quotes of Gingrich calling members of the class of 1994 "cannibals" and "extremists" for wanting to actually follow through on the Contract w/ America. It was all just rhetoric for Newt because he had sensed in the early 90's a backlash against the Clintons...

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  @phoenixmeow Newt was a Rockefeller Republican rhetorically for the early part of his career. His rhetoric tacked to the right in the 90's because of the backlash against the Clinton's. He never followed through on Contract w/ America and ridiculed those members who did want to follow through on ...

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  @PostSurgeOperative Gingrich has gotten plenty of favorable mentions on Drudge.

  Maybe Drudge is a straight-shooter? I know that Gingrich isn't. He is personally corrupt. He will say anything.

  Remember the Contract with America? Newt saw a backlash against the Clinton's coming. He tacked to the ...

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  Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1988

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  @smitty195 Try looking at big government Newt's voting record over the decades. He is not conservative. His favorite presidents were FDR and W. Wilson for crying out loud.

  Newt has a govt. solution to all problems. He is a nationalist, not a conservative federalist.

  Newt confuses corporatism wi...

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  Newt Gingrich bad-mouths Ronald Reagan in 1988

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  @backyardbread His ethics, or lack thereof, and his tendency to say anything and the opposite the next is what unnerves people.

  I think he is a Rockefeller Republican. He went more conservative in rhetoric in the early 90's because he sensed a backlash against Clinton. He wanted to be at the fr...

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  @DukeLaCrosse20 Of course he hasn't. The only legitimate criticism of Reagan is he didn't live up to his great rhetoric on a number of issues. He also didn't follow through on his instincts to return to a classical gold standard. Ron Paul headed up Reagan's Gold Commission, but Reagan's neo-con a...

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The Most Persistent Economic Fallacy of All Time!

From a lecture given by Dr. Milton Friedman in Erie, Pennsylvania (1978).

This is essentially a restatement of the "parable of the broken window."...

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@squamish4244 I'm glad you think your granny is an expert. See Robert Higgs's work on the Great Depression and war spending. It's even made it's way into the government textbooks--miracle or miracles.

Also, if you get a chance, check out "Depression of 1920" on YouTube. The first year of that de...

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  The Most Persistent Economic Fallacy of All Time!

  From a lecture given by Dr. Milton Friedman in Erie, Pennsylvania (1978).

  This is essentially a restatement of the "parable of the broken window."...

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  @squamish4244 It's easy for everyone to have make-work jobs. It's productive jobs that matter. There was widespread rationing during the war. That ain't prosperity.

  It wasn't a recession. lt was a depression. The real economy didn't grow for 27-years. It was only after WWII when spending was sla...

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  The Most Persistent Economic Fallacy of All Time!

  From a lecture given by Dr. Milton Friedman in Erie, Pennsylvania (1978).

  This is essentially a restatement of the "parable of the broken window."...

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  @Dymdez "Common sense" tells me that war destroys. Most of the labor force and capital equipment gets geared toward making things that will be destroyed. Scarce labor and resources can't be used to make furniture, bikes, watches, etc.

  I got an idea. Let's create some real "economic activity!" Le...

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  The Most Persistent Economic Fallacy of All Time!

  From a lecture given by Dr. Milton Friedman in Erie, Pennsylvania (1978).

  This is essentially a restatement of the "parable of the broken window."...

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  @DoneWithDogma I didn't say that the rich don't get subsidized. SOME of them got bailed out. Everyone who worked for those companies (from the janitors on up) got a bailout because they wouldn't have had those same jobs without it.

  The problem is that the govt. can only rearrange the chairs on ...

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  The Most Persistent Economic Fallacy of All Time!

  From a lecture given by Dr. Milton Friedman in Erie, Pennsylvania (1978).

  This is essentially a restatement of the "parable of the broken window."...

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  joepeeler34 said:

  @Actualecon Friedman thought inside a Keynesian framework. Austrians versus Keynesians/Monetarists is much more interesting. See Robert Murphy's website RPM Free Advice.

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  The Most Persistent Economic Fallacy of All Time!

  From a lecture given by Dr. Milton Friedman in Erie, Pennsylvania (1978).

  This is essentially a restatement of the "parable of the broken window."...

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  @squamish4244 It's easy for unemployment to be low when a draft if in place. But that doesn't mean that more wealth is being produced. There is no more capital equipment. Scarce resources aren't go toward things like refrigerators, tables, cars, etc. Those resources are going toward things that g...

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