A informative article that explains how this recession started, why it is over, and why a much larger recession is starting.

Bernard Madoff and Alan Stanford are in the news today because of their large Ponzi schemes. Are the Madoff and Stanford Ponzi schemes the largest in modern history?

There was once a need for cities — they brought together capital, equipment, the market, expertise, culture, and organization into close proximity and benefited everyone. Now, cities are unneeded relics of a bygone era, and we should not subsidize cities or parts of cities to fund their activities. Cities should sink or swim on their own merits. Does sending billions of dollars into cities to prop them up make city governments lazy about making sure they are attracting residents and businesses.

Taxpayers sink billions of dollars into large infrastructure projects like municipal bus lines and transit systems. Is it fair that employees of these systems are allowed to paralyze these publicly funded systems by strikes? The solutions are many, but they all focus on not letting billions of dollars of public capital be wasted.

The UN has been accused of many things, and it has struggled with many critics since it’s creation. Is it time for the UN to be disbanded? Many people think it should. I will argue the contrary.

Senator Dodd and the Obama administration move to back-stop the FDIC.

If you love pork then you will love the stimulus package. The stimulus package passes with zero Republican support, along with 11 Democrats as well. Apparently, there are some democrats who do not like pork as well.

When we look at the cause of most of our world problems, famine, over-fishing, global warming, deforestation, and so forth, the ultimate root cause is human demand. As we have a constant growth in population we are constantly increasing the rate of demand. The R we need to Reduce, is ourselves.

Japan’s Richest and most famous billionaires – those who used to dominate the Forbes lists but recently dropped from the top 10 lists.

The greatest and, if executed properly, most rewarding thefts in the history of crime.