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Open Letter to President Trump May 20, 2020

On May 14, 2020, I sent a letter to President Trump on the website "Contact the White House." I'm posting the letter below, and inviting others to follow suit. Perhaps we could have a separate feed or link that collects the letters for all to enjoy. Mr. President, I don‘t appreciate your anti-China rants. The WHO was fully informed about the Coronavirus at the start of 2020. Your Administration had scientists employed at the WHO in Geneva. China took extraordinary steps to contain the virus. Just a reminder, AIDS originated in the US. Nobody ever referred to it as an...

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Military Junta in Washington Jan 29, 2020

Where do all our tax dollars go? To the people in charge, i.e., the generals.

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What the BBC did not tell us Dec 5, 2017

On November 23, 2017, in an interview with BBC, I pointed out that Apple was paying all the taxes that it was legally obligated to pay. This was the quote the BBC chose to use following an hour-long interview recorded a week earlier. For the record, what I told the BBC did not fit their narrative, namely, that corporations should be milked for all they are worth. My first and most important point was that though the so-called “rich” own Apple stock, so do tens of millions of government workers (firefighter and teachers, for example) at federal, state and local...

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Social Security: If you want the freedom to choose… sign here: May 25, 2017

I'm hoping this website will be the catalyst to a movement that will force our legislators to give us a choice to opt out of Social Security. Some of us are already too deep into the morass, but for the sake of our youth, let's bring this monstrosity down.  I'm counting on freedom lovers to distribute this link as widely as possible. http://getmeoutss.com/

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Lifetime Opportunity Feb 23, 2017

According to a few financial journalists, reputable ones, mind you, the current move in the stock market is driven by “animal spirits.” After all, they stress, the bull market is now in its eighth year, which makes it the second oldest in history. In addition, considering that the average P/E on normalized S&P 500 earnings at the start of Trump’s presidency was 22.5, one pundit predicts that the S&P 500 will rise less than +10% in price by Inauguration Day 2021. By the logic of another journalist, “the market will follow the elevator and hemline fads,” as in what goes...

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True Cost of Corporate Taxation Oct 16, 2016

The Destruction of Wealth: The True Cost of Corporate Taxation October 2016 Currently, the total market capitalization of the S&P 500 is approximately $10.6 trillion. Assume the index trades at a price-to-earnings ratio (P/E) of 20. Bear market pundits believe that the P/E on the S&P 500 is about 25, while the bulls use P/E’s as low as 16 to justify their bullishness. Earnings estimates come in various shapes and sizes as each constituency seeks to modify reported earnings as calculated and reported under generally accepted accounting practice (GAAP). A P/E of 20 is an acceptable compromise. If we stick...

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SS: If we had the freedom to choose Sep 9, 2016

Social Security: If we had the freedom to choose The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. Alfred Whitney Griswold By: Albert Meyer – Bastiat Capital What if taxpayers had a choice between the state-sponsored retirement system (Social Security), or a retirement fund managed by the private sector? Let us assume that a private sector fund invests all contributions into the S&P 500 index, and that the period under review extends over 40 years, from 1975 to 2015. Over the past 40 years, measured to the end of August 2015, returns on the S&P 500 compounded at 8.13%...

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A Libertarian Alternative to Foreign Aid May 20, 2015

Could the origins of China’s economic success be the blueprint to invigorate Africa?

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A Libertarian Manifesto for 2016 Feb 19, 2015

Hello world!

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Top 10 List Aug 9, 2014

Top 10 List Competition

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