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How Natural Law Works

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Fantasy Free Economics

Download PDF Version Mention the words natural law and what image does the mind conjure up? Say natural law and the brain might create for you and image of airheads living in communes preaching agape love. As a teacher of … Continue reading →

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How Low Are You Willing To Go?

Posted on April 4, 2017 by Fantasy Free Economics

Lets say you have $300,000 cash and you don’t want to risk it in the stock market. Today the highest CD rates in the country are about 1.25%. That pays you $312 per month.  If you were not being robbed … Continue reading →

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Will Trump Rig the Stock Market?

Posted on February 14, 2017 by Fantasy Free Economics

In 1987 the Reagan administration began managing the securities markets. Since that time, to varying degrees politicians on both sides of the isle have supported programs to enhance asset prices. Both monetary and fiscal policy have been used since that … Continue reading →

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Changing Faces of Welfare

Posted on December 13, 2016 by Fantasy Free Economics

Download PDF Version The welfare we provide the rich through the Federal Reserve system in just one year is many time greater than all of welfare we have provided the poor in all of our history. To that we have … Continue reading →

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How the Rich Got Lazy

Posted on October 2, 2016 by Fantasy Free Economics

No one gets lazy without a lot of help. The poor are often accused of being lazy. It is often said that programs to help the poor rob them of initiative. It is said, the more government gives to the … Continue reading →

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Stock Market Through October

Posted on September 5, 2016 by Fantasy Free Economics

Don’t click on these headlines. They are images and just for display. September through Mid-October is the logical time for the market to crash. Will it crash? Everything under the sun is being done to hold it up. Headlines like … Continue reading →

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Stock Market Now Through January

Posted on December 29, 2015 by Fantasy Free Economics

Human behavior is highly predictable. Dogs and cats have it down pat. Animals do not define their owners with euphemisms. They respond to them exactly as they are and know exactly what to expect. Human beings define their masters with … Continue reading →

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Hedging Against Looking Stupid

Posted on May 14, 2015 by Fantasy Free Economics

Amidst of world wide central bank efforts to keep stock prices elevated and moving higher, public figures especially current and past Federal Reserve Chairs are starting to comment that stocks are over priced. Remember these people all have genius plus … Continue reading →

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Gaming The Fed

Posted on April 28, 2015 by Fantasy Free Economics

I can say with complete authority that there is not one real economist on the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee. How do I know? I am a real economist and I know political hacks when I see them. The Federal … Continue reading →

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Rigged Market Economy

Posted on February 25, 2015 by Fantasy Free Economics

The transition has been made in the U.S. from a free market economy to a rigged market economy. The following is a decent definition of a free market economy. “DEFINITION of ‘Free Market’ A market economy based on supply and … Continue reading →

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