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Tampa, FL - Since 2004 when gas prices began to soar, due to hurricanes and refinery closings. Then after the storms and the refineries were back open, gas kept climbing for no reason what so ever and people on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line have been scratching their heads in search for answers to why, who, and what.

As the solid foundation of your True Mogambo Enlightenment (TME), you have the fact that not once in the 4,000-year history of man and money has this 'fiat money' crap NOT led to total ruination. Not once. Not even close.

The Next Attack on Gold Has Begun by Gary North “When governments want to expand power over the monetary system, they invoke the need to clamp down on money laundering by criminals. There is a problem here. After these laws and new rules are passed, crime never goes down, but our privacy does.

The US Mint is pondering raising the cost of a nickel. It takes 7.7 cents to make one. Would a nickel still be a nickel if it cost more than a nickel? Why don’t they report on how much it costs to make a hundred dollar bill? On this subject, Kristen will tell you “don’t get him started.” But she isn’t here right now so here goes.

LewRockwell.com by Todd Steinberg The workers are correct: capitalists are greedy, self-serving humans who only think about themselves. There is no difference between a capitalist, a despot, and a warlord. All three types care only about lining their pockets with treasure.

Many of the most frequent fallacies in economic reasoning come from the propensity, especially marked today, to think in terms of an abstraction—the collectivity, the “nation”—and to forget or ignore the individuals who make it up and give it meaning.

In this report, I introduce you to an amazing chart. It is getting zero attention from the mainstream financial media. The information it conveys is at the heart of Bernanke’s looming problem. By Gary North LewRockwell.com In this report, I introduce you to an amazing chart.

One of the most stubborn fallacies about inflation is the assumption that it is caused, not by an increase in the quantity of money, but by a “shortage of goods.” It is true that a rise in prices (which, as we have seen, should not be identified with inflation) can be caused either by an increase in the quantity of money or by a shortage of goods — or partly by both.

By Mike “Mish” Shedlock Mish’s Global Economic Analysis While pondering whether there is going to be a second half recovery on the basis of stimulus checks, let’s first take a look at the possible repercussions of Cash-Out Refis Lowest in Four Years.

By Ron Paul, In the past few months, American workers, consumers, and businesses have experienced a sudden and dramatic rise in gasoline prices. In some parts of the country, gasoline costs as much as $4 per gallon. Some politicians claim that the way to reduce gas prices is by expanding the government’s power to regulate prices and control the supply of gasoline.