Shocking Piece Of U.S. History Revealed

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

What are you being blamed for that you did not do?

Regards,

D-Ray

I perceive no one blaming -5 for spinning truths.

That would be something he does not do.

[Samm]

Originally Posted by merrylander

The very good reason why the CFPB receives its funding from the Fed is really quite simple - so that it can do its work. For example Congress weeps about the fact that the BATF does not even enforce existing gun laws - and then turns around and cuts its funding just to ensure that it cannot find the manpower to do its job.

The original investment the fed made in the CFPB to create the unaccountable agency is only a clue to the bad direction that an unaccountable agency can go. As you can see since 2010 when the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 was signed they have progressed into giving themselves the power to keep the money they collect in civil penalties with the creation of the Civil Penalty Fund.
If it were truly an agency created for the people the over 60 million the agency has collected in the last several years would go back to the consumers that were ripped off and not into CFPB's coffers.
It is never acceptable to have an agency that funds itself by prosecuting those it is suppose to serve and should never become profitable for them personally to use our legal system to benefit themselves.

[Samm]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

Not ridicule; impeachment. You said that you do not claim to know any more than anyone else. I assert that you regularly claim to have greater knowledge than others, and the quotation was support for my assertion. One can't protest about being an innocent whipping boy when that facts show an agenda-driven presence here. You are fully capable of demonstrating disdain for other posters, particularly when you have an ally to reinforce your position.

In other words, don't try to bullshit a bullshitter.

Regards,

D-Ray.

I don't understand why you feel someone should apologize for educating themselves on a particular subject. Is that the new Common Core approach to education? Belittle those who take interest in a subject and make the effort to learn more about it.
Instead of trying to make people apologize for educating themselves why not share subjects that you excel in that I may not know anything about. Isnt that the benefit to a public forum.
I have been studying our Keynesian economic system and its failure for several years and it has been extremely profitable for me to take control and responsibility of my own finances by learning from the people before me who chose to do the same. I have learned a lot and there is a lot more to learn but I would never have been able to make the extremely profitable decisions I have if I had made the choice of calling people who knew more about a subject "stupid".
Please feel free to post a subject that you excel in. Im a sponge.

[barbara]

Originally Posted by Samm

I don't understand why you feel someone should apologize for educating themselves on a particular subject. Is that the new Common Core approach to education? Belittle those who take interest in a subject and make the effort to learn more about it.

Instead of trying to make people apologize for educating themselves why not share subjects that you excel in that I may not know anything about. Isnt that the benefit to a public forum.

I have been studying our Keynesian economic system and its failure for several years and it has been extremely profitable for me to take control and responsibility of my own finances by learning from the people before me who chose to do the same. I have learned a lot and there is a lot more to learn but I would never have been able to make the extremely profitable decisions I have if I had made the choice of calling people who knew more about a subject "stupid".

Please feel free to post a subject that you excel in. Im a sponge.

The subject the old timers here excel in is BS detection.

Lately, there has been a lot of material here to hone those skills.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by barbara

The subject the old timers here excel in is BS detection.

Lately, there has been a lot of material here to hone those skills.

Tell me, the meter on mine pegged so hard it bent the needle.

[Samm]

Originally Posted by barbara

The subject the old timers here excel in is BS detection.

Lately, there has been a lot of material here to hone those skills.

I agree it seems there is a wide open field here for submitting useful material.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Samm

I agree it seems there is a wide open field here for submitting useful material.

By which you mean there's no policy for the mods to delete rank propaganda that is useful to the people paying you.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Samm

I agree it seems there is a wide open field here for submitting useful material.

Why don't you try it sometime? Nearly every post I've seen is some alternate-universe theory put up by some n'er-do-well with a website.

[Samm]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Why don't you try it sometime? Nearly every post I've seen is some alternate-universe theory put up by some n'er-do-well with a website.

You mean like Paul Craig Roberts: Paul Craig Roberts has had careers in scholarship and academia, journalism, public service, and business. He is chairman of The Institute for Political Economy.



Scholarship & Academia



Dr. Roberts has held academic appointments at Virginia Tech, Tulane University, University of New Mexico, Stanford University where he was Senior Research Fellow in the Hoover Institution, George Mason University where he had a joint appointment as professor of economics and professor of business administration, and Georgetown University where he held the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy in the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

He has contributed chapters to numerous books and has published many articles in journals of scholarship, including the Journal of Political Economy, Oxford Economic Papers, Journal of Law and Economics, Studies in Banking and Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Public Choice, Classica et Mediaevalia, Ethics, Slavic Review, Soviet Studies, Cardoza Law Review, Rivista de Political Economica, and Zeitschrift fur Wirtschafspolitik. He has entries in the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Economics and the New Palgrave Dictionary of Money and Finance.

He has contributed to Commentary, The Public Interest, The National Interest, Policy Review, National Review, The Independent Review, Harper’s, the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Fortune, London Times, The Financial Times, TLS, The Spectator, The International Economy, Il Sole 24 Ore, Le Figaro, Liberation, and the Nihon Keizai Shimbun. He has testified before committees of Congress on 30 occasions.


Journalism



Dr. Roberts was associate editor and columnist for The Wall Street Journal and columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service. He was a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate in Los Angeles. In 1992 he received the Warren Brookes Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 1993 the Forbes Media Guide ranked him as one of the top seven journalists in the United States.


Public Service

President Reagan appointed Dr. Roberts Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy and he was confirmed in office by the U.S. Senate. From 1975 to 1978, Dr. Roberts served on the congressional staff where he drafted the Kemp-Roth bill and played a leading role in developing bipartisan support for a supply-side economic policy. After leaving the Treasury, he served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Commerce.


James Sinclair:Jim Sinclair is primarily a precious metals spe************************t and a commodities and foreign currency trader. He founded the Sinclair Group of Companies (1977), which offered full brokerage services in stocks, bonds, and other investment vehicles. The companies, which operated branches in New York , Kansas City, Toronto , Chicago , London and Geneva , were sold in 1983.

From 1981 to 1984, Mr. Sinclair served as a Precious Metals Advisor to Hunt Oil and the Hunt family for the liquidation of their silver position as a prerequisite for the $1 billion loan arranged by the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker.

He was also a General Partner and Member of the Executive Committee of two New York Stock Exchange firms and President of Sinclair Global Clearing Corporation (commodity clearing firm) and Global Arbitrage (derivative dealer in metals and currencies).

In April 2002, shareholders of Tanzanian Royalty Exploration (formerly Tan Range Exploration) approved the acquisition of Tanzania American International, a company managed by the Sinclair family. Following this transaction, Mr. Sinclair became Chairman of Tanzanian Royalty and now leads its efforts to become a gold producer and royalty company.

Most recently in 2013, Jim accepted the position of Executive Chairman for the newly formed Singapore Precious Metals Exchange.

He has authored numerous magazine articles and three books dealing with a variety of investment subjects, including precious metals, trading strategies and geopolitical events, and their relationship to world economics and the markets. He is a frequent and enormously popular speaker at gold investment conferences and his commentary on gold and other financial issues garners extensive media coverage at home and abroad.

In January 2003, Mr. Sinclair launched, “Jim Sinclair’s MineSet” which now hosts his gold commentary and is intended as a free service to the gold community.

and John Williams:Walter J. "John" Williams was born in 1949. He received an A.B. in Economics, cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 1971, and was awarded a M.B.A. from Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration in 1972, where he was named an Edward Tuck Scholar. During his career as a consulting economist, John has worked with individuals as well as Fortune 500 companies.

Although I am known formally as Walter J. Williams, my friends call me “John.” For 30 years, I have been a private consulting economist and, out of necessity, had to become a spe************************t in government economic reporting.

One of my early clients was a large manufacturer of commercial airplanes, who had developed an econometric model for predicting revenue passenger miles. The level of revenue passenger miles was their primary sales forecasting tool, and the model was heavily dependent on the GNP (now GDP) as reported by the Department of Commerce. Suddenly, their model stopped working, and they asked me if I could fix it. I realized the GNP numbers were faulty, corrected them for my client (official reporting was similarly revised a couple of years later) and the model worked again, at least for a while, until GNP methodological changes eventually made the underlying data worthless.

That began a lengthy process of exploring the history and nature of economic reporting and in interviewing key people involved in the process from the early days of government reporting through the present. For a number of years I conducted surveys among business economists as to the quality of government statistics (the vast majority thought it was pretty bad), and my results led to front page stories in 1989 in the New York Times and Investors Daily (now Investors Business Daily), considerable coverage in the broadcast media and a joint meeting with representatives of all the government's statistical agencies.

Yea what a bunch of loser conspiracy theorists.

[Samm]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

By which you mean there's no policy for the mods to delete rank propaganda that is useful to the people paying you.

The people paying me have nothing to do with public forums and would be very disappointed that I give away so much information that they pay for.