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73The WORMSCAN List
WORMSCAN Updated: 960420 (c) Copyright 1980, 1996, by David P Beiter, proliferate freely. WORMSCAN is a collection of news items concerning the involvement of police, lawyers, judges, politicians,...
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66Normal Law
Normal Law known popularly as the "Bell Curve" or mathematically as the "Gaussian" Law is just a "common sense" law: It describes mathematically the idea that extremes are rare and elements around averages...
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71Money quotes
“The Federal Reserve definitely caused the Great Depression by contracting the amount of money in circulation by one-third from 1929 to 1933.” -- Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize winning economist, January 1996 in a National Public Radio...
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62John Kenneth Galbraith on the Central Federal Reserve Bank
-- John Kenneth Galbraith From his last book The Economics of Innocent Fraud : The Fed, for all its power and prestige, effectively does nothing, says Galbraith. In his view, America's Federal...
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69Milton Friedman on the Central Federal Reserve Bank
“The Federal Reserve definitely caused the Great Depression by contracting the amount of money in circulation by one-third from 1929 to 1933.” -- Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize winning economist, January...
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66Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went by John Kenneth Galbraith
This is one of the most enjoyable historical book I read with "The Day the Bubble Burst: A Social History of the Wall Street Crash of 1929". You will surely appreciate the inimitable style of the legendary...
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man 1984 - The primary aim of modern continuous warfare: maintain the stability of a hierarchical or pyramidal society. Astounding Interview of Aaron Russo about...
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53Free Market ? Bullshit !
"The powers of financial capitalism had far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy...
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65Black Friday: The Financial Conspiracy under Ulysses Grant Presidency
During the American Civil War, the United States government issued a large amount of money that was backed by nothing but credit. As his first presidential act, Grant signed a law promising that the federal...
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67The Great Seal
From http://bensguide.gpo.gov/3-5/symbols/seal.html On July 4, 1776, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson were given the task of creating a seal for the United States of America. The delegates of the...
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