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Not Just the VA: Another example of government failure in healthcare

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“Jay Littlewolf is a Native American and a member of the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Montana. He’s talking about the Indian Health Service (IHS), another federal government-operated healthcare system. When the scandal broke about the VA, the media, pundits, and politicians quickly concluded that the remedy for the VA’s ills was reform: more funding, regulation, and accountability. But the occurrence of the same problems at the IHS suggests that these sorts of problems may be endemic to government-run systems. Unfortunately, few are stepping up to recommend a more permanent fix than to enact reforms to the existing systems.”

http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/not-just-the-va

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A Guide to Stock Splits

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“There is an ongoing debate over whether stock splits are a plus for investors. Warren Buffett is one detractor. The class A shares of his holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, have never split and currently trade at a lofty $204,500.  That’s because the Oracle of Omaha prefers investors who see themselves as business owners who plan to stick around for a long time, not simply traders. A split would attract ‘people who buy for non-value reasons’ and ‘are likely to sell for non-value reasons,’ Buffett wrote in his 1983 letter to shareholders.  However, some studies have found that companies that split their shares tend to outperform their peers.”

http://www.investingdaily.com/19366/a-guide-to-stock-splits/

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John Hussman: Yes, This Is An Equity Bubble

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“Make no mistake – this is an equity bubble, and a highly advanced one. On the most historically reliable measures, it is easily beyond 1972 and 1987, beyond 1929 and 2007, and is now within about 15% of the 2000 extreme. The main difference between the current episode and that of 2000 is that the 2000 bubble was strikingly obvious in technology, whereas the present one is diffused across all sectors in a way that makes valuations for most stocks actually worse than in 2000. The median price/revenue ratio of S&P 500 components is already far above the 2000 level, and the average across S&P 500 components is nearly the same as in 2000.”

http://www.hussmanfunds.com/wmc/wmc140728.htm

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The Final Nail in the Coffin: The Death of Freedom in Our Schools

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“Despite the fact that dinosaurs are extinct, the status fabricated, and the South Carolina student was merely following orders, his teacher reported him to school administrators, who in turn called the police.  What followed is par for the course in schools today: students were locked down in their classrooms while armed police searched the 16-year-old’s locker and bookbag, handcuffed him, charged him with disorderly conduct disturbing the school, arrested him, detained him, and then he was suspended from school. Stone’s mother was never alerted to the school’s concerns about her son’s creative writing assignment or his subsequent interrogation and arrest.”

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/the_final_nail_in_the_coffin_the_death_of_freedom_in_our_schools

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The IMF, the SDR, and the Dollar: One Big Happy

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“Lyndon Johnson was fighting two wars, both of which America lost: the war in Vietnam and the war on poverty. He lowered marginal income tax rates in 1964 to 70% from 99%. He refused to raise taxes. The phrase was popular: ‘guns and butter.’ By 1969, there was price inflation. There was also a run on the federal government’s gold supply, because foreign governments demanded payment, which they could do under Bretton Woods. France was the main ‘culprit.’ The U.S. Treasury was experiencing a classic bank run.  Here was what the International Monetary Fund did, according to Wikipedia. It created a new fiat non-currency, the SDR.”

http://www.garynorth.com/public/12781.cfm

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Missing After World War I: The Tomb of the Unknown Civilian

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“As a result of civilian resistance in the Franc-Prussian war of 1870, the German army in 1914 acted under a draconian code of how to treat civilians. It is now clear that German soldiers, experiencing combat for the first time, often mistook friendly fire for sniper attacks. Frustrated by a stronger Belgian resistance than anticipated, the German military responded with a series of reprisals that were far worse than the accusations of British propaganda.  In this time of Great War remembrance individuals should reflect on the fate of millions of nameless civilians. Many nations now salute the Unknown Soldier with a tomb; I do not believe that any nation involved has honored the Unknown Civilian.”

http://www.garynorth.com/public/12704.cfm

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What the Next Gold Confiscation Will Look Like

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“A windfall profits tax on gold would be much easier for the government to administer than what they did in 1933. And thanks to the system of citizenship-based taxation, a windfall profits tax on gold could be levied on Americans no matter where in the world they live.  There’s precedence for this, too. In 1980 the Congress passed the Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax Act, which taxed up to 70% of what they deemed to be ‘windfall profits’ of domestic oil producers.  If gold were to explode to the upside (another way of saying the dollar crashes), we shouldn’t be surprised to see a bill like the Fair Share Gold Windfall Profit Tax Act get passed, which would levy a 80%, 90%, or higher tax on gold.”

http://www.internationalman.com/articles/what-the-next-gold-confiscation-will-look-like

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Love It or Hate It, You’re Missing What Really Matters About Bitcoin

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“What matters are the people whom I call, affectionately, ‘the Bitcoin kids.’ This is a very loose grouping of thousands of people, mostly fairly young and widely dispersed, who are thoroughly committed to the cryptocurrency revolution and all that it entails.  What the uninitiated don’t understand is that these people are not just trading bitcoins; they are busy developing a whole new generation of products and services—things like Silent Vault, Monetas, Etherium, and many others. Lots of them are involved in 3D printing, and some, in the maker movement. Others are involved in humanitarian efforts like BitcoinNotBombs.”

http://www.caseyresearch.com/freeman/whether-you-love-or-hate-youre-missing-what-really-matters-about-bitcoin

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Uncle Sam, the Bitcoin Mogul

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“The US federal government may be ladling on more regulations to Bitcoin and making disparaging comments about the cyber-currency, but it’s one of the largest holders of the virtual money in the world.  The federal government has trashed Bitcoin by way of an investor alert from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority entitled ‘Bitcoin: More than a Bit Risky.’ FINRA said it issued the alert to caution investors that buying and using digital currency, such as Bitcoin, carries risks. The government still holds 110,000 bitcoins, worth $55 million at today’s price.  The US government is the second largest single holder of this unregulated, potentially ‘worthless’ digital currency.”

http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/uncle-sam-the-bitcoin-mogul

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Dr. Grinspoon’s Kind War: Interview With a Renegade Marijuana Proponent

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“I was put up for early promotion to full professor in about 1975, a few years after Marihuana Reconsidered came out. My chief, who had put me up for early full professorship, was on the promotions committee. He came back from the promotions committee meeting and asked me to come to his office to give me the bad news. They had turned me down. When I asked him why he said, ‘Well, they loved your work on schizophrenia, but Marihuana Reconsidered – they hated that.’ I asked why. He said, ‘They said it was too controversial. [..]’ I said, ‘What has controversy got to do with it? We’re in the academy. Isn’t scholarship the criterion, or one of the most important?'”

http://www.thedailybell.com/exclusive-interviews/35602/Anthony-Wile-Dr-Grinspoons-Kind-War-Interview-With-a-Renegade-Marijuana-Proponent/

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