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Stealing a Penny

If you were to steal a penny from everyone in the United States, you would have over three million dollars. While doing such a thing directly would be impractical, there are three ways to do this indirectly:

Quotable of the Day: Rising Tide

A rising tide raises all ships, and floods those of us who live on land.

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Quotable of the Day: Taxi Drivers

Taxi drivers are like sand... the harder you squeeze them, the more they slip through your fingers.

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Foreign Countries "investing" in America... What it really means

Free-lunch traders love to argue that the trade deficit doesn't matter because our so-called "trading partners" use their profits in our trade deficit to "invest" in America, so the money comes back either way. But another way of putting that is that the money we lose to them in trade disparity is used to buy hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place. 

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Quotable of the Day: Typical Chinese Worker

"Work for peanuts? I'd kill to have a job that paid that much."

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Quotable of the day: Liberty

One cannot promote Liberty by sanctioning the fruits of oppression... obviously.

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Stupid Questions: Which is the More Important Economic Issue, Immigration or the Trade Deficit?

Which is more lethal, the gun or the bullet?

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Quotable of the Day: Level Playing Field

Only a thief can compete with a thief. Only a slave can compete with a slave. Talk about a level playing field... who are we competing with?

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Quotable of the Day: "Crony" Capitalism

"Crony" capitalism is still capitalism.

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Quotable of the Day: Health of the Economy

An economy can never be healthy so long as its labor pool is larger than its consumer base.

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