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Archive for March 3rd, 2017

Sabbatical Day 45

03 Mar

Finished reading the monograph about my the Fed did not foresee the 2008 financial crisis.  To summarize the authors’ findings:  the FOMC suffers from group think and the members are not very good economist.   Also read some of Alan Blinder’s speeches from the 1990s; he was vice chairman of the Fed in the 90s and now is back at Princeton, where he teaches economics.

Was at Ramapo’s first round win at the Bradley Center.  Saturday night they will go to the second round against Keene State.  Go Roadrunners!

 
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Clintons befriended Chinese cook who got illegal donations

03 Mar

“Hillary Clinton’s long list of scandals doomed her from the start., says historian Doug Wead in his new book, that details the ‘scale of the Clintons’ corruption’.”

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Donald Trump, Social Engineer

03 Mar

“At his daughter Ivanka’s urging, President Trump is showing us his liberal or progressive side by urging Congress to enact tax-code legislation relating to childcare and paid leave. Of course, this shouldn’t surprise anyone given that conservatives have, one, long supported other liberal programs, s…”

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Herbert Spencer: Protectionism Is ‘Aggressionism’

03 Mar

“One of the ways Donald Trump has been an outlier in Presidential annals is the speed with which he has started living up to campaign promises. His pace is so far beyond that of recent history that one political wag suggested Americans will need to switch to dog years to keep up.”

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Can Anti-Interventionism Survive the Trump Era? by — Antiwar.com

03 Mar

The warmongers on the Left are rising.  

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Flashback: Chuck Schumer Meets with Putin in New York City

03 Mar

The senator from New York yucks it up with Putin.  

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