Chyden Finance: profit from hypocrisy

BBC News reports, “Many in the armed forces feel that too few civilians fully appreciate the drive to serve in combat.”
So, that’s why US taxpayers are paying a billion dollars per day on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It’s a safari to keep soldiers entertained… or a turkey shoot, considering that more than 100,000 Iraqis [...]

Rasmussen Reports reports, “23% of [US] voters nationwide believe the [US] federal government today has the consent of the governed. Sixty-two percent (62%) say it does not, and 15% are not sure.”
In other words, a huge majority in the USA consists of individuals who feel disenfranchised. At that point, very little difference exists between [...]

Mark Twain, among many others, famously quipped, “There’s lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
The Washington Post, generally a left-leaning rag, reports, “Overall, more than a third of voters polled — 36 percent — say they have no confidence or only some confidence in the president…”
Since when does one lump those who have ’some confidence’ with those [...]

Lately, my focus has been significantly less on LMF Theory than in the past and almost exclusively on the more uplifting prospect of fostering international development through business education, specifically finance.
Of course, one way that individuals can prosper is to short-sell stupidity, ignorance, and lies, but that is not the only route that one can [...]

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‘Progressive’ activist, Jack A. Smith, has uncovered some interesting information concerning Pres. Obama’s Long War plans.
“[The] documents and deeds include the Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), the Ballistic Missile Defense Report, the nuclear security summit in New York and the May 3-28 United Nations nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference, as well [...]

As I have been saying for nearly a year, charisma is a very dangerous thing. It incites sanctimonious narcissism in the individual and sycophantic double-think among the charismatic’s disciples.
When a charismatic leader engages in behavior that normally would be seen as negative, his or her disciples often defend it with laughable results, as when [...]

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The Meme of the Week seems to be ’spread the wealth’.
Let’s look at that one.
One of the frequently cited ‘facts’ is the string of Clinton Surpluses.
However, if one pulls data from the US Treasury website on the level of the US federal government debt and graphs it, one can see the slightest of wiggles and [...]

Obamacare is wealth redistribution. That’s not me, that’s this guy:

Invest accordingly.
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