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Markets Fail When Humans Are Unregulated

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Consider President Obama's budgets for 2010 and 2011. The combined red ink is $2.9 trillion. No one anywhere in the world has this kind of money to lend to Washington. How will these massive deficits, never before experienced on earth, be financed? They can
only be financed by the Federal Reserve destroying its own balance sheet by its
purchase of toxic financial instruments from the banks, thereby providing the
banks with cash with which to buy the Treasury's bonds, or by the Federal
Reserve itself purchasing the Treasury's bonds by creating new money, or by
another collapse in equity values that sends investors fleeing into "safe"
Treasury bonds.

American power is on the precipice, about to fall. Perhaps it is a good thing. The world will be rid of bullying, of invasions of innocent countries based on blatant lies, of torture and murder of woman and children, of redistribution of income from the poor to the rich.

The criminal record accumulated by the United States makes it the least
indispensable country on earth.

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A question by Dick Thomson on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:51:17 AM
Dick Thomson's question by paul craig roberts on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:16:21 AM
So then by Dick Thomson on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:32:07 AM
Just so you know by wagelaborer on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:48:31 PM
Really? by Dick Thomson on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:32:20 PM
The rich are not the enemy or the problem by Your Friend Fairpay on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:16:23 AM
good luck by Peter Warner on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:11:50 PM
that wasn't what i said by Your Friend Fairpay on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:23:22 PM
But can't the disparity by Archie on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:28:14 PM
tax property instead of income by BaronVonRothschild on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:19:07 PM
Yes, Tax what you burn, not what you earn by Scott Baker on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:32:55 PM
Ah yes the brilliant treasure Henry George by Your Friend Fairpay on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:58:52 PM
Yes by Your Friend Fairpay on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:46:18 PM
U.S. Conservatives think Merchants are the superrace by Perry Logan on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:14:19 PM
Perry i think you'll love this and pass it around by Your Friend Fairpay on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:40:41 PM
Trickle Down works by TomK on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:31:15 PM
A Poll inspired by this article by Scott Baker on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:09:34 PM
Fairpay Justice gives peace and plenty to all by Your Friend Fairpay on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:32:56 PM
People really still don't know by Your Friend Fairpay on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:23:01 PM
Money did trickle down, in the form of credit by TomK on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:23:58 PM
again by Your Friend Fairpay on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:12:32 PM
And the moral of the story is...? by boomerang on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 5:52:26 PM
all people contain both the noble and the base by Your Friend Fairpay on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:00:56 PM
Give Me Five, and I'll Take Your Change by boomerang on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:05:11 PM
rely on charity to do the work of economic justice? by Your Friend Fairpay on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:54:14 PM
Reboot it by boomerang on Saturday, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:01:29 AM
Just a few more Yes Men by sometimes blinded on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:10:35 PM
Indispensable? by Recce1 on Friday, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:36:43 PM
Good Points Recce1 by boomerang on Saturday, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:03:43 AM
For a debt-free USA,Nationalize the Federal Reserve by Arthur M. Howard-(Scotoni) on Saturday, Feb 6, 2010 at 6:17:26 AM
For a debt-free USA,Nationalize the Federal Reserve by Arthur M. Howard-(Scotoni) on Saturday, Feb 6, 2010 at 6:36:34 AM
Another Legal Theft in a long list of legal thefts by Your Friend Fairpay on Saturday, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:39:27 AM
Nationalization? Perhaps in 2050. by TomK on Saturday, Feb 6, 2010 at 10:46:06 PM
"bought-and-paid-for-media" by kwalsh on Sunday, Feb 7, 2010 at 3:35:38 PM