Michael Bernard
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March 27, 2009
The distinction between the social security structure in the United States and Sweden gives uncanny insight into why Sweden has the option of saying "no" to Saab's urgent need for a bailout. Saab...
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March 23, 2009
Michael
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Is the United States the New Weimar Republic?
Recent economic moves by the Obama Administration raise eerie parallels between the U.S. economy and the hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic. Can national socialism be far behind? Weimar German...
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March 20, 2009
As the Barack Obma attempts to repair America's shattered reputation abroad, he is met with resistence from countries that are still scarred from eight years of Bush. Right? Or, is there something...
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March 6, 2009
Michael
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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Hedge Funds
The Obama administration has announced a plan to join forces with private equity firms and hedge funds to forge public-private partnerships to reverse the housing and credit crisis. This comes aft...
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March 5, 2009
Michael
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Is 2009 the New 1848?
While the Senate debates the Omnibus Spending Bill (HR 1105) on the heels of the $787 billion American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, the restructured $350 billion TARP and the $75 billion plan to...
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