Contrarian Thesis

TreasuryDirect is reporting that the US government debt has now surpassed $16 trillion.  It only took 290 days to amass another trillion dol...

Why to parents allow their children to get shots?  No one likes to see their child in pain but those that choose to vaccinate do so because ...

While I definitely do not agree the conclusions he often seems to draw (as an aside, how does more government solve problems caused or incen...

I ran across a deeply disturbing article in the NY Times by Thomas E. Ricks in the Opinion pages.  While I have seen at least two other com...

CNBC recently ran an article highlighting the fact that as part of the Dodd-Frank financial legislation financial institutions deemed to big...

On Friday, June 29th coming out of yet another summit Euro-zone leaders announced the ECB will be able to directly help banks (rather than f...

Last week the WSJ ran an article: Fed Wrestles With How Best to Bridge U.S. Credit Divide .  The article talks about how many consumers are ...

Yesterday we learned that the Federal Government can mandate that each of us carry health insurance.   The government can force me to en...

To expand on last week's post the money for government spending can come by 1 of 3 means: Financed by taxation (i.e. theft) Finance...

Most governments the world over and Keynesians of all stripes would have us believe that consumers drive the economy and during periods whe...