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September 19, 2014 0

Idiotic Proposals for Fed to Give Away Money

By News Desk

A Fiscal Times, Yahoo Finance article by by John Grgurich claims that Instead of QE, Fed Could Have Given $56,000 to Every Household in America . Grgurich formulated his article after reading "an intriguing piece just published in Foreign Affairs, Brown University political economist Mark Blyth and London-based hedge fund manager Eric Lonergan argue the Fed could have done better by pursuing a far different type of grand policy experiment. " The "intriguing piece" is Print Less but Transfer More , Why Central Banks Should Give Money Directly to the People .

September 15, 2014 0

Someone’s Already Fighting ISIS: The Syrian Arab Army

By News Desk

In the US Army’s West Point Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) 2008 report titled, " Bombers, Bank Accounts and Bleedout: al-Qa’ida’s Road In and Out of Iraq ," it stated unequivocally that (emphasis added):  During the first half of the 1980s the role of foreign fighters in Afghanistan was negligible and was largely  unâ€noticed by outside observers. The flow of volunteers from the Arab heartland countries was just a trickle in the early 1980s, though there were more significant links between the mujahidin and Central Asian Muslims—especially Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Kazakhs.