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Get Bailed Out

by Jason Thomas Kocher November 13th, 2008 - Politics »

Ho ho…ain’t it just such a grand thing that our economy still sucks and that our government’s faltering and questionable attempts to prop it up yet play heavily in the daily news.

The joy is that, certain things and thoughts that I enjoyed during the passage of the Bailout are still relevant…and therefore arguably worthy of posting at a time [...]

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The Economy Dummy

by Jason Thomas Kocher October 23rd, 2008 - Philosophy » Politics »

Before we are once more drawn into the warm wet embrace of faith in the economy, I wanted to make note of my recently evolved commonsense skepticism of economic systems.

At some point in my life, I unfortunately lost my endless curiosity in subjects that lay just outside the confines of my current knowledge. One such subject that has remained an [...]

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A Comedy of Fiscal Errors

by Jason Thomas Kocher October 12th, 2008 - Politics »

Like some good-old, dry Monty Python sketch. This from an Australian satire show called Newstopia, the video originally seen at Campaign for Liberty. With a spoonful of sugar to taste, better said than I can say though I’ll say it anyway…

Central banking (U.S. Federal Reserve) and fiat currency are both a bit of corrupted magic done by men who may or may not know better.

It’s funny because it’s true? Of course, it’s also sad because it’s true.

Further along these lines of understanding the farces of the currently constructed economy, I find the following sources thought-provoking. However, like anything, they may tomorrow prove themselves something other. So take them, as always, into your own skeptical hands.

I’m Thomas K…and I’m not.


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How to Lose all the Battles and Still Win Some War

by Jason Thomas Kocher October 11th, 2008 - Politics »

“G.I. Joe would have you know that ‘knowing is half the battle’, but the government today relies on only lawyers and guns to make money, their knowledge, at best, half-empty.”


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