Friday, October 31, 2008

Headlines: October 31, 2008

Obesity blamed for doubling rate of diabetes cases

Bailout funds being spent in ways Congress never foresaw

U.S. deaths in Iraq on track for record low

Paul Johnson: Can We Afford Liberalism Now?

MIT scientists baffled by global warming theory, contradicts scientific data

Don't Just Do Something. Stand There.

The richest Jew in Damascus, 1816

2004: Sitting on a String

"Look at the adjusted monetary base. This monetary component is the one that the Federal Reserve System controls. It reveals the FED’s holdings of assets, mainly U.S. government debt certificates. The monetary base is what Friedman has called high-powered money."

The Adventures of Baracchio: Episode 2

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