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  • What if the Credit Crunch Is Just a Symptom?
    The problem as I see it is that president Carter and the congressional democrats passed a law that deems rebates of value added taxes to not be an anti-competitive trade practice. Since then, exporting countries like Germany have increased their value added taxes to maximize their mercantilistic exploitation of the USA {20 % value added tax now} . I remember the justification used during the press articles on Carter's proposal as being the alleged necessity to keep western Europe"s income high to diminish the lure Communism had on Europe's working class. Maybe the policy was right while the USSR lived but now it is gone and unfortunately so is much of our working classes income. Time for a real change. We either replace our income tax with a value added tax or we repeal Carter,s exemption for their value added tax rebates in considering whether to impose trade sanctions. By way have our labor union economists had their heads up their rears since Carter,s policy was implemented?
    Dec 14 01:36 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • I Would Be More Worried About Global Cooling
    red is now green
    Dec 04 03:47 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Obama and Big Pharma: The Case for Pfizer
    God provided herbs which are the basis for most pharmacueticals.
    Nov 10 23:27 pm |Rating: +1 -1 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Lessons from the Great Depression and One of the Biggest Tax Hikes in U.S. History
    few have capital gains on recent purchases, but some have long term gains that they could sell if rates stay low thereby freeing up funds for investments or discretionary purchases they would not otherwise make.
    Nov 10 23:06 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The Biggest Bubble of Them All
    how come the predatory mercantilist policies of our socialist trading partners are seldom criticized by our leftists? For example-rebate of value added taxes to exporters of goods to the USA. what is wrong with the culture of the left that they ignore the damage done by many hundreds of billions in trade deficits per year?
    Nov 06 08:26 am |Rating: 0 -1 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Cramer's Mad Money - Secretary Cramer (11/5/08)
    item 3 is brilliant.
    Nov 06 07:56 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Cramer's Mad Money - Marathon's Addition by Subtraction (10/31/08)
    I remember when Mr. Cramer warned all to stay away from aig. great call.
    Nov 04 00:49 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Cramer's Mad Money - Marathon's Addition by Subtraction (10/31/08)
    I remember when Mr. Cramer warned all to stay away from aig. great call.
    Nov 04 00:49 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Market for Electric Vehicle Batteries Is Heating Up
    when does the patent run out on nickel-hydride batteries? anyone know?
    Nov 03 03:39 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The Real Cause: Current Account Deficit
    re punishing mercantilists i would like to add that less trade even no trade is better than running 800 billion dollar a year trade deficits ; the end result of which is inevitable national bankruptcy.
    Oct 29 04:01 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • The Real Cause: Current Account Deficit
    another way of looking at the trade deficit is that the usa does not require those that sell to us to buy an equivalent amount from us. obviously some of our trading partners do not deserve to be called partners since they are practicing what amounts to a beggar thy neighbor policy towards the usa. tariffs that are adjustable to the trade balance with each exporter to the usa is one way to punish mercantilism and to reward fair traders.
    Oct 29 03:50 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Whither Canada's Tar Sands?
    the walmart I shop at sells led light bulbs that use 1.5 watts and produce as many lumens as a 40 watt incandescent bulb. this product is a real energy use killer. i paid 5.67 dollars per long life bulb.most walmarts i have checked don't carry it. if interested harass the manager of your local store until she gets it for you.
    Oct 23 02:23 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Bubble Also Caused by Neomercantlists
    we should force countries that export to us to buy goods and services roughly equal in dollar value to what we buy from them. a sliding scale tariff would be a good start. bush 41 made Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Japan pay a total of over 50 billion dollars of our costs for the first gulf war. that should be our standard procedure whenever we are asked to defend rich nations or their interests.
    Oct 23 01:33 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • Commodities: From a $500 Billion Tab to a $200 Billion Windfall
    this is the result of the attack by congressional republicans on the democrat's offshore drilling ban. drill baby drill.
    Oct 17 08:24 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article
  • U.S. Automakers Can't Afford to Overlook Natural Gas Opportunities
    drgoodwrench- who or what is carb?
    Oct 08 09:35 am |Rating: 0 0 |Link to Comment |View article

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