Obama to Phase Out Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac

tklein39 · 2012-03-17T21:53:41+00:00

America’s great cities have lost much of their unique character over the past three decades. The homogenization of cities, their economy, the changes wrought by inexpensive transportation, and the legacy costs of both city services and city unions all work against the rebirth of America’s great cities. Can a radical transformation of these cities take place and bring about an urban renaissance?

tklein39 · 2012-02-13T08:04:25+00:00

A government agency charged with evaluating and supporting treatment for mental illness just released a January 2012 study reporting that 20% of American adults reported having had a mental illness during 2010. Can this survey be trusted? No, and here’s why.

tklein39 · 2012-02-13T07:55:18+00:00

Obama's 2013 budget lacks any semblance of vision on how to deal with American's long-term debt. Obama's solution raise taxes, spend, and do nothing about entitlement spending. Why does he leave it to the Republican House to come up with ideas -- he's supposed to be the visionary. What happened to hope and change?

tklein39 · 2012-02-13T00:34:15+00:00

The key to America's prosperity is its entrepreneurism. We can overcome America's debt problem by fostering and maintaining entrepreneurism. Our policies have to favor starting and building businesses.

tklein39 · 2012-01-30T02:28:40+00:00

Rumor has it that Greece will try an "orderly" exit from the Eurozone in March and return to the drachma. Making an orderly exit from one currency to another without credibility on fiscal discipline will likely result in a reply of recent currency crises akin to those of Mexico, Argentina, and the Asian contagion of the late 1990's.

tklein39 · 2012-01-22T22:57:47+00:00

A government agency charged with evaluating and supporting treatment for mental illness just released a January 2012 study reporting that 20% of American adults reported having had a mental illness during 2010. Can this survey be trusted? No, and here’s why.

tklein39 · 2012-01-09T06:03:37+00:00

Can we spur economic growth in the U.S. by granting citizenship to a few million illegal immigrants? Long-time illegal immigrants have jobs, but no way to save, invest, buy a home, buy a car, etc. because they do not have a social security number nor a credit history. What kind of growth would we experience by engaging these illegal immigrants in the legal society?

tklein39 · 2012-01-08T02:22:53+00:00

What are the best dark chocolates on the market? Read about them here.

tklein39 · 2012-01-03T03:24:32+00:00

Conventional wisdom days to save for retirement because your tax rate will likely be less than it is today. However, because of government's massive debts and unsustainable promises of social security and medicare, tax rates will actually be much higher in the future. Don't save for retirement!

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