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The President criminalizes capitalism... Evil speculators beware... Why we're all quitting our jobs next week (assuming we can find replacements)... The real numbers behind our budget crisis... A currency crisis, socialism, and politicians in denial... Says the Associated Press: "The Justice Department will try to 'root out' cases of fraud or manipulation in oil markets." The timing is perfect. The government, like a lazy hound dog, knows when to show up at the kitchen door. It's feeding time, gents. But do you think the Justice Department will announce a thorough investigation into the activities of the Federal Reserve? Nope. Do...

Stansberry & Associates Investment Research, an investment firm, is getting some notice and causing some controversy on the World Wide Web with a video warning of an impending collapse of the dollar which it claims will usher in 1,000 percent inflation and months of domestic turmoil. If you get to the very end of it you'll find it to be a sales pitch. Still, Porter Stansberry makes some points worth considering: --If all Americans paid 100 percent of their income in taxes it would still not pay off the national debt. --That our government owes more money to more people...

I don't think I can recall ever being more disgusted in public... and certainly not at an investment conference. [Last] Wednesday, I attended the famed Ira Sohn Investment Research Conference in New York City, which benefits pediatric cancer. The conference was good and I'm glad I went... but one presentation made me want to vomit. It was Steve Rattner – the New York financier turned OBAMA! "car czar." Listening to him tell one lie after another about the bankruptcy of General Motors was bad enough. (And believe me... I know a little bit about GM's balance sheet, having been the...

DETROIT'S SOCIALIST NIGHTMARE IS AMERICA'S FUTURE!One of the most important things to remember about socialism – or coercion of any kind – is it fails eventually because human beings have an innate desire for liberty and a strong need for personal property rights. In fact, the origins of government lie in the need of agricultural communities to protect themselves from violence and theft. So it is particularly ironic that in more recent times, it is government itself that has more frequently played the role of bandit. When you start taxing people at extreme rates to pay for socialist "benefits," when...

THIS IS WHY THERE ARE NO JOBS IN AMERICA by Porter Stansberry I'd like to make you a business offer. Seriously. This is a real offer. In fact, you really can't turn me down, as you'll come to understand in a moment… Here's the deal. You're going to start a business or expand the one you've got now. It doesn't really matter what you do or what you're going to do. I'll partner with you no matter what business you're in – as long as it's legal. But I can't give you any capital – you have to come up...