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Stewart to Krugman: Trillion Dollar Coin is A "Stupid !@#$%^& Idea"
Jon Stewart responds to the “rare gray-bearded urban laureate” about his idea for getting around the debt ceiling. NB: Crude humor and language The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show … Continue reading
Posted in Jon Stewart, Krugman!, Refuting Keynesians
Tagged debt, debt ceiling, jon stewart, krugman
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What Is A GDP Anyway?
We constantly hear about this mystical number, the GDP. What is it? What does it mean? Where did it come from? Great questions. If you’re a regular reader of Curmudgeons, you won’t be surprised at the answers. It stands for … Continue reading
Posted in Refuting Keynesians
Tagged debt, GDP, General Theory, GNP, government, Keynes, Soviet Union, US, USSR
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How Would A Government Shutdown Affect Me?
With the fake “fiscal cliff” propaganda over with, the federal government is now nearing the fake “debt ceiling”. There is talk of minting trillion dollar platinum coins as a solution, support for a shutdown by some, and all kinds of … Continue reading
Posted in Government overreach, Libertarianism, Politics, What a curmudgeon hears
Tagged debt, government, propaganda, work
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Krugman Starts To Hedge
Paul the Prognosticator starts to back off a bit on whether all the Fed’s money printing will cause (price) inflation. It’s true that printing money isn’t at all inflationary under current conditions — that is, with the economy depressed and … Continue reading
On the Burden of Economic Ignorance
Krugman never ceases to amaze. In one of his posts yesterday titled “On The Non-burden of Debt” we are treated to another fallacious Keynesian argument. Krugman talks about current spending leading to future generations being poorer, but tells us we’re … Continue reading
Jim DeMint almost gets it
Judge Andrew Napolitano had Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) on Freedom Watch the other night. DeMint talked a good game for the vast majority of his interview, making statements like “both parties have been a part of the problem” and saying … Continue reading
Posted in Church and State, Government overreach, The Empire, War and Peace
Tagged debt, Ron Paul
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Changes Are Coming
A friend sent this to me. I’ll comment inline. CHANGES ARE COMING… 1. The Post Office. Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to … Continue reading
Posted in Misunderstood Signs, Refuting Keynesians, The Fed, The Internet Strikes Back
Tagged debt, United States
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Earth to Krugman: The Treasury != The Fed
In one of today’s idiotic posts, Debt Is (Mostly) Money We Owe to Ourselves, Krugman says: People think of debt’s role in the economy as if it were the same as what debt means for an individual: there’s a lot … Continue reading
