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How Internal Corruption Prevents the Economic Development of Indigenous Peoples
- By Jack Deal
- 04/15/2008
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Visualize being in the indigenous Third World. Imagine an indigenous populist political candidate from a populist political party running for mayor. This candidate campaigns throughout the countryside blaming the current local political administration of being corrupt, leaving the municipality in debt and not doing anything for "the people".
Treasury Reorganization: Recession Response or Red Herring?
- By Ki Gray
- 04/11/2008
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On March 31st, the Treasury Department announced a new plan to help the troubled financial sector weather the sub-prime mortgage storm. This new system replaces some agencies while redrawing the jurisdictions of existing authorities like the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Reserve. In particular, the Fed's role in averting future crises is greatly expanded, a decision that is in keeping with the recent sea change in America's monetary policy.
Investment Politics: Jobs, The Economy, and Social Security
- By sanserve
- 04/9/2008
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Who wants to be a president; the President of the United States? Social Security reform is the winning ticket. Research supports the thesis that Social Security reform would provide all the lubrication necessary to get our economic ball bearings rolling in the right direction. Economies do not grow, or increase employment, when job providers are taxed and regulated unmercifully, throttling their energy, creativity, and profitability.
Can The Bush Tax Cut Work?
- By Ki Gray
- 03/28/2008
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After weeks of increasingly dismal reports from the financial sector, many regular Americans are beginning to worry that the US may be close to or already in recession. While government intervention in the economy is relatively uncommon in US history, since its establishment in the 1930's, the Federal Reserve has been able to manipulate interest rates, giving them the power to make all real estate loans more or less expensive by some degree, which comes with a hefty responsibility: controlling inflation.
Investor Political Priorities - A Survey
- By sanserve
- 03/4/2008
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Here we are, in the midst of a presidential campaign, trying to select a new leader for what is still the most economically powerful nation on Earth. The candidates are kissing all the babies they can get their palms on and smiling until their cheek muscles ache; but will they be able to produce any of the changes they talk about? Do we really want them to? 90% of all Americans are investors and, as such, there are issues that we need to hear about from the man who would be king.
The Enactment of the Fair Tax Plan - The First Twenty Years
- By John DeJong
- 03/2/2008
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This is a fictional work of mine on what I think United States will look like after the first twenty years that the Fair Tax Plan has become law.It's been twenty years since Congress enacted the Fair Tax and abolished the 16th Amendment. All historians agree that this was without a doubt the most significant and extraordinary law ever enacted by our government since the Abolishment of Slavery.
Hillary vs. Obama Time Will Tell!
- By Daniel Millions
- 02/27/2008
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The main dominant figures in today's elections that will define the following president in America history are Hillary Clinton from New-York and Barack Obama from Illinois . According to the latest results of votes Clinton won in 3 states: New-Hampshire, Nevada and Michigan , but Obama in Iowa and in the South Carolina . This election campaign looks like more battle than a race between these 2 candidates.
Will There Ever Be a Black President of the US?
- By Jack Goode
- 02/11/2008
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If you're ready to stop settling for what the cynics tell you, you must accept, and finally reach for what you know is possible, then we will win these primaries, we will win this election, we will change the course of history....Barack Obama, Kennedy Endorsement Event, January 28, 2008
America has a black man running for the highest office in the land, and it's not Bill Clinton.
How Hillary Stole New Hampshire
- By Ki Gray
- 01/30/2008
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As Election Day approaches, one of the most publicized presidential races of the past several decades has captivated the minds of people around the world and set records for participation in the US democratic primary system. As the first woman to run as a mainstream candidate for president, New York Senator Hillary Clinton has quite a race in front of her by anyone's standards.
From the Mujahadeen Comes a Man with a Mission
- By Leon Newton
- 01/21/2008
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Al Qaeda in its present form did not yet exist. What did exist was a growing number of militant Arab groups angered by the forced displacement of the Palestinians, the violence against Muslims, and the growing interference in the Middle East by Western governments. In 1979, another incursion into a Muslim country set the seventeenth son of a devout Wahhabist Saudi construction magnate-a-self-made billionaire said to have railed often against the Jews and their Western allies-into the mountains of war-torn Afghanistan to join the fight against the Soviets.

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