The reasoning: If buyer and seller both know stimulus is coming their way, then everyone knows that everyone else has the same bag of money. Prices will therefore go up. Duh. But here’s their astounding conclusion: We can’t handle the truth, and maybe…just maybe…we shouldn’t be told when the Fed is doing its “stimulus.”

This is an amazing statement on the core philosophy of many people who have drunk the progressive Kool-Aid. I have an idea…let’s all willingly stay in the dark so the Fed can manipulate us more easily to buy, sell, invest, or save in the “proper” amounts at any given time. After all, we all know how well the government does its job.

Also of interest is Ben Bernanke on 60 Minutes defending his stimulus efforts. You can hear the worry in his voice:

And for some rather apocalyptic commentary from an economist I actually trust, check out what John Williams of ShadowStats.com has to say about the potential that Quantitative Easing will lead to hyperinflation.

Then check out this hypothetical scenario of what the U.S. dollar crash could look like. It’s called The Day the Dollar Died:

Fabian Socialism – Part 1 of 3

Fabian Socialism – Part 2 of 3

Fabian Socialism – Part 3 of 3

Take, for example, the idea of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGM). Just a decade or two ago, the idea was in its ascendency, building popularity like wildfire. I remember all of the “green” hype as an architecture student in the late 80s. I didn’t buy it then (thankfully), but it’s been shown now to be largely hype. Even the U.K. is now outlawing certain ads because they are too exaggerated. AGM is on a decline. The bubble – the fad – has burst.

I believe China’s media-enshrined status as an all-powerful counterpoint to American capitalism is a bubble that will at some point burst as well. Yes, China has had a great run when it comes to economic growth and ascendency to power on the world stage. But whether in stocks or political fortunes, all trends at some point reverse and come down off their highs.

I remember when everyone feared the ascendency of the Japanese. Their economy was on fire and they seemed unbeatable. Their cars were better, their companies better run without the overhead of fat-cat union contracts. Everyone feared that Japan would own every piece of American real estate.

It didn’t happen. Bubbles burst, the Japanese got ahead of themselves, and misjudged the market. They agreed to build plants here and unionize, losing much of their competitive edge. Real estate prices took a hit back in the 80s and again in 2005, resetting market forces and neutralizing a lot of Japanese “malinvestment.”

The same is bound to happen with China. The invisible hand of economics is a much more powerful force than government planners, and no matter how smart those planners are in their centrally planned economy, they cannot outsmart the market. They will make bad investments and become inefficient, as all big government will eventually do. China is not a juggernaut.

American doesn’t need to fear the Chinese simply because they own a lot of American debt, although we should be ashamed of ourselves for letting our politicians get away with the ferocious spending they’ve practiced for decades. However, we do need to fear them if we don’t get our act together and become competitive again as a nation.

If we can scale back the forces in American that are trying to build a big, inefficient European style government, we have a chance  to regain our economic footing in the world economy and compete with China. If we continue down a path of centralized government control of our economy, we’ll end up in the malaise that Japan and Europe have been in for quite some time.

Did you know that the Nazi movement was NOT a right-wing movement, but a communist/socialist movement? That’s right, forget what the left wing media have insinuated about right wing Nazis. It’s a lie. In fact, “Nazi” is shorthand for National Socialist Party, and the only major disagreement Hitler with Stalin’s communism was that communism was international in scope and Nazism was a German nationalist movement.

Here is Glenn’s documentary. Watch it a few times. Tell your friends. Send it to your teacher friends and home school groups. It’s that important.

The Revolutionary Holocast – Part 1

The Revolutionary Holocast – Part 2

The Revolutionary Holocast – Part 3

The Revolutionary Holocast – Part 4

The Revolutionary Holocast – Part 5

The question is whether the private sector will be allowed to make decisions about the use of its own Internet infrastructure, or whether the government should step in and provide regulatory controls over that infrastructure in pursuit of the free flow of information.

Let me boil this down to the bare essentials. Those who trust the private sector more than the government should be against Net Neutrality. Those who trust government more than the private sector should be for Net Neutrality. I don’t know about you, but I usually land on the side of the private sector, and this is not an exception.

Some confusion has been caused by the fact that the Christian Coalition has (unfortunately) come out in favor of Net Neutrality. This is a disappointing and unfortunate sign of a move to the left in the national leadership of the organization. They are taking pride in being on the same side of this issue as the Obama administration and the far-left MoveOne.org.

On the other hand, Christians can take some comfort in the fact that the Heritage Foundation, Competitive Enterprise Institute, and other conservative groups are squarely against this move to let politicians police the Internet.

I can agree with some of the Christian Coalition’s concerns about not wanting big business to increase prices or restrict bandwidth for religious sites. However, given the choice, I’ll take my chances with big business over politicians. Politicians are far more able (and likely, in the current power-structure of Washington, D.C.) to ignore their constituents and do whatever their biggest donors want.

I recommend that anyone concerned about this issue read up on it independently and become an informed voter. A good place to start is Dick Armey’s column entitled Net Ignorance of the Christian Coalition. Then contact your representatives to let them know you don’t support this power grab by politicians over the flow of Internet content.