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American Compass has called on sociologists, pundits, and crisis managers to decode the Tiger Woods speech. Behind that stiff, choreographed show on Friday was a boy crying for help and attention. Thank God his mommy …
Economists as a lot are a curious group of people. Their most useful function is arguably predicting and preventing financial collapses. Yet, these academics who gain so much notoriety and traction during times of financial …
In 2009, the now infamous private security firm, Blackwater, incongruously renamed itself after the noble gas Xenon. The new name, Xe (pronounced Zee), purportedly signaled a change in scope of the organization away from US-funded …
America’s great private universities have either been involved in price-fixing for the past decade or the US government has been manipulating the real rate of inflation. Which do you believe is most likely?
American Compass has …
In part 2 of our series on the housing crisis, we tackle the latest favorite mantra of the real estate industry: “Now’s a great time to buy.” Everyone knows real estate prices have fallen. Some markets …
In part one of our series on the lunacy of buying into real estate, we consider the interest rate argument. Home mortgage rates are not only at cyclical lows, but at all time lows. Some …
Adam Ferguson’s 1975 text of the social and moral collapse of Germany during the Weimar Republic is a must read for 2010. He details how Europe’s most austere and respected society disintegrated into belligerence, upheaval …
American Compass has six easy steps to steal the stored wealth of virtually all the citizens of a country. Not possible? Well, it first takes a government.
Step 1: Create Inflation
Inflation must be steady and somewhat …
In the latest affront to the individual, new data shows that gold has significantly outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average in real money terms over the past four decades.
In real money terms, the Dow Jones …
Modern health care in America has four parties: patients, insurers, drug companies and device manufacturers, and doctors. Congress and the Obama administration made a political calculation in health care reform legislation to appease two of …
