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- 07/03/2015 - Following the Greek Example
- 05/28/2015 - As Costs Rise, Opportunies Decline
- 04/28/2015 - The Difference Between the Republicans and the Democrats
- 03/31/2015 - Which Way Will the Fed Turn?
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- 01/19/2015 - The Swiss Franc Snaps--Up
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- 07/31/2014 - Still Waiting for Signs of Intelligence
- 06/29/2014 - Why I'm Not Inclined to Leave the United States when the U.S. Dollar Collapses
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- 04/16/2014 - The Evils of Inflation
- 03/03/2014 - What Inflation?
- 02/12/2014 - Income Inequality, Part 2
- 01/27/2014 - A Second Social Security System?
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- 12/16/2013 - Income Inequality
- 11/30/2013 - The Tax that is Obamacare
- 10/24/2013 - A Review of the Future
- 9/24/2013 - The Best Case Scenario
- 8/29/2013 - Inflation and Gresham's Law in my Lifetime
- 7/10/2013 - The de facto Gold Standard
- 6/30/2013 - Stirring up Envy
- 5/31/2013 - How Inflation Affects Wages
- 4/30/2013 - Municipal Woes
- 3/29/2013 - Warren Buffett Compares Gold to Capital
- 2/27/2013 - Money Walks
- 1/23/2013 - When the Convenience of Money isn't Worth It
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- 12/26/2012 - The Results of InflationomicsTM
- 11/26/2012 - The Rise and Fall of Socialism
- 10/22/2012 - What Kind of “Arab Spring” will the United States Have?
- 10/6/2012 - What You, the Rich, Owe to the Poor
- 9/19/2012 - Problems and Symptoms
- 8/31/2012 - Government Spending Does Not Boost the Economy!
- 7/30/2012 - Leaving the Euro Behind
- 6/28/2012 - Illegal Aliens vs. Chinese Imports
- 5/31/2012 - Passing the Baton from the United States to China
- 4/30/2012 - Letter from a Reader
- 3/30/2012 - When Money Fails to Function
- 2/27/2012 - Four Problems with Taxing the Rich
- 1/30/2012 - Symptoms of the Three Phases of Inflation
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- 12/30/2011 - 2012 Forecasts
- 11/29/2011 - Lamenting Bailouts
- 10/27/2011 - The 99 percent Movement
- 09/30/2011 - Governmental Influence
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- 07/26/2011 - The U.S. Government's Fight against Money
- 06/29/2011 - Traditionally Hyperinflations Were a Local Phenomenon
- 05/30/2011 - Hedgers vs. Speculators
- 04/30/2011 - Some Long-Term Consequences of Inflationomics
- 03/30/2011 - A Tale of Two Brothers
- 03/29/2011 - Using Cycles to Predict the Future and Cycles Eliminate the Need for Reasoning and Explanations
- 02/28/2011 - Which Will Hit the United States First, a Deflationary Depression or a Hyperinflationary Destruction of the U.S. dollar?
- 01/24/2011 - Some Virginia Legislators Worry about Hyperinflation!
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- 11/24/2010 - Deficits Do Matter
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- 10/28/2010 - Too Big to Fail?
- 09/27/2010 - The Grip of Inflationomics
- 08/16/2010 - Enterprise “Zones” for Chronically Unemployed Individuals
- 07/29/2010 - Two Roads to Bankruptcy
- 06/25/2010 - Keeping Interest Rates Low
- 05/17/2010 - There Are Two Prices: Which One's for You?
- 04/22/2010 - Unwitting Speculators
- 03/31/2010 - Government for the People or Over the People?
- 02/25/2010 - The Composition of Wealth
- 01/26/2010 - Some Problems with Nationalizing Businesses
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- 12/23/2009 - Inflation: The War Against Money
- 11/06/2009 - Could the U.S. Dollar Experience Hyper-Inflation?
- 10/09/2009 - Jawboning: So What's New?
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- 07/29/2009 - Healthcare Meltdown
- 06/22/2009 - Taxing the Competition
- 06/04/2009 - Derivatives Explained
- 04/13/2009 - When Government Money Monopolies Fail
- 03/19/2009 - The Inflation Question
- 02/23/2009 - Government is Doing Something
- 01/12/2009 - Debt Makes a Debtor
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- 12/08/2008 - Baltic Index Bodes Badly
- 11/04/2008 - U.S. Weighs Purchasing Stakes In More Firms
- 10/29/2008 - Some Things Are Clear
- 09/30/2008 - As Inflation Grows, So Grows the Government
- 09/11/2008 - Nationalized Lending Leads to Inflation
- 08/13/2008 - Excess Profits?
- 07/16/2008 - Excessive Speculation
- 06/13/2008 - Talk is Cheap
- 05/07/2008 - Why Does the Fed Lower Interest Rates?
- 04/03/2008 - Insights from Zimbabwe
- 03/06/2008 - There's a Limit to What the Fed Can Do
- 02/08/2008 - The Best Money Can Buy
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