Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

The 15 Biggest Congressional Recipients of Wall Street Campaign Cash

Reforming Wall Street is a hot topic on Capitol Hill these days. Congress is currently weighing two financial reform bills that would, to varying degrees, reshape the way the financial system is regulated.

It Doesn't Matter if a Republican or Democrat is in Office, the Hustle Remains the Same

The financial crisis hasn't been kind to General Electric Co. Its stock has lost almost half its value, the government has stepped in to prop up its enormous financial arm, and sales have slumped in core industrial businesses.

Military Stimulus?

The defence bill President Barack Obama will sign into law on Wednesday contains a new provision that would pay Taliban fighters who renounce the insurgency, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin said on Tuesday. Pure genius...

Peak Oil Still in the Cards

"The IEA in 2005 was predicting oil supplies could rise as high as 120m barrels a day by 2030 although it was forced to reduce this gradually to 116m and then 105m last year," said the IEA source, who was unwilling to be identified for fear of reprisals inside the industry.

10 States Face Budget Crisis

The 10 most troubled states are: Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island and Wisconsin.

Progressive Liberals Push for Financial Transaction Tax

While it would seem fitting that a tax levied at the brokerages and institutions responsible for our present day maladies be brought to the table, one must look deeper than simple revenge and see that this is a problematic resolution.

Congress Set to Vote on Healthcare

House lawmakers were preparing for a historic vote Saturday on a bill that would re-make the U.S. health-care system, with Democrats seeking the 218 votes needed to pass the measure and hand President Barack Obama a key procedural victory on his top domestic priority.

Senate Set to Waste More Money

The U.S. Senate approved a $45 billion plan to expand a tax credit for first-time homebuyers, extend jobless benefits and provide tax refunds to money-losing companies.

The Worst is Yet to Come

What is more likely happening is a repeat of the Great Depression. We might have up to a year or so of an economy growing just slightly above stagnation, followed by a drop in growth worse than anything we have seen in the past two years.

Obama creates 640,329 jobs at a cost of $323,739.83 per job

Funds paid out so far = $83.8 billion + $52.1 billion + $71.4 billion = $207.3 billion $207,300,000,000 / 640,329 = $323,739.83 per job created

City of Houston is Bankrupt

Contained within this link is a document prepared by Lemer, Farb, and Roberts, an accounting firm hired by the City of Houston to look into their accounting status. What they discovered is deeply disturbing.

Where is the Outrage?

I am outraged that the Obama Administration promised changed and did not deliver. "Yes We Can" was a lie. The reality is "It's Business As Usual, Only Worse, With Higher Deficits".

Movie Review: Where the Wild Things Are

I recall this book vividly as a child. It was one of the first books my parents read to me as a little one. My own experience with this movie echos the sentiments of the author contained in this seed.

The Rape of America

Ronald Reagan, decided and made into law, that kids no longer have to study History in school. You know, things like Taxation Without Representation. And all that goes with it.

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Organized Crime - Goldman Sachs - Finance Industry: What's The Difference?

What's the difference between Organized Crime and Goldman Sachs and the Finance Industry in general?

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The Natural Rights of Humanity

Does government, in its esteemed position, grant rights to the people or are these rights wholly the domain of the people and merely recognized by government? This is a slightly altered statement turned query that I mentioned in my last article.

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America the Beautiful

According to a recent review conducted by the TARP Oversight committee, the taxpaying public could be on the hook for the astounding sum of $24 Trillion.

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A More Perfect Union

Americans, like all people, have affection for things of antiquity. We hold the history of our nation in an untouchable realm of stasis. Things that have come to pass are seldom reviewed for accuracy and even if a revision is needed, it goes without much fanfare or notice.

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Urban Survival: Home Is Where the Heart Is

Friends and skeptics, welcome to another installment of Urban Survival, a writing where I let loose the tide of doom and paranoia in a vain attempt at steering yet a few more to the shores of liberty and perception.

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The Decision

This will be one of my last articles (for those that have ever had an care for my writing) for some time. Things have begun to show many of the signs I've been fearful of and much of my time has been spent pondering the ramifications these harbingers may realize.

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Urban Survival: My Canary is Dead...

A very long time ago, before the advent of technology, miners would use canaries to detect the presence of hazardous or toxic gases in a mine shaft.

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Elliot Wave Tutorial

An excellent primer in one of the many tools used to decipher and understand market movements.

Hanging On, or How to Get Through a Depression and Enjoy Life

By June 1930, with the depression 8 months old, "[t]he panic had subsided and the wreckage had been cleared away.

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