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Paul Ryan Is Not Principled

Paul Ryan talks a good talk (sometimes), but in the end he votes for more spending, more government intervention, and military adventurism. Romney doesn’t even have anything close to a coherent and consistent philosophy or record. And no, I am not voting for Obama/Biden either. Nothing will change so long as we continue to support [...]

Foreclosure Misery: Government’s Intervention in Housing

Today it was announced that banks foreclosed on 288,345 houses in the past three months, the highest amount of foreclosures in any three-month period since 2006. It’s estimated that 1.2 million homes overall will be foreclosed in 2010. Well, gee, looks like government bailouts of the financial industry have paid off! Despite hundreds of billions [...]

Stocks and Monetary Policy

I’ve been investing in individual stocks since 2005, when I was just 12 years old. The idea of owning part of a business fascinated me. Over the past several years probably 95% of all the money I earned doing odd-jobs around my community went into individual stocks that I researched and analyzed on my own [...]