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Is the Economy in Trouble? Or just the Sheep?

July 3rd, 2009

Everyone seems to running around complaining about the economy and unemployment and lamenting the fall in the stock or housing markets. Let’s stop running for a second and ask an important question.

How did we get into this situation?

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The markets did not suddenly decide to go down by themselves. They are simply going down after going up for a long, long time. Markets go up and markets go down. It’s part of the grand scheme of things.

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Secret #4: The Government’s most Powerful Tool is Ignorance

April 16th, 2009

Many people feel that the government is unfair, or that life is just plain hard. They think that taxes are too high and that the government oppresses the people. That is probably true in some other countries, but I don’t think it’s true in America.

If people live in America and they feel that any aspect of their life is limited, I wonder if it is more a product of their thinking rather than anything the government has done. People are not sneaking into Iran.
People are not trading their life savings to get passage to Cuba. Everyone wants to come to America.

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