Paying attention to the CPI and the others is like leaving your house on a rainy day without carrying an umbrella because a government weather report… - Peter Schiff

It can be argued that the U.S. brokerage and investment banking industry has transformed the modern American stock market into nothing more than a mechanism for transferring wealth from shareholders to management.

There are no checks and balances if the gov is wrong, if a private entrepreneur makes a mistake, he goes bankrupt, the losses are cut, if he bets wrong, he loses, if the gov bets wrong, they just get bigger, they just appropriate more money, it's a bottomless pit, because they either get it from the tax payers or run it off a printing press.

The Constitution denies the states the power to make anything other than gold or silver coins legal tender in payment of debts.