Life In The Middle

People are funny about money and so is our government.  The US government is funny with its money in that it ceaselessly prints more money to make up for spending shortfalls.  No other country in the history of the world has gotten away with printing money in this way because the prices always rise with the printing and run away inflation makes the economy unstable.  Eventually the house of cards collapses under its own weight.  So how are we able to print so much money and and get away with it?  I learned about how we are able to keep up the charade and much more by reading the book The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin and will attempt to summarize it for you now. The first puzzle piece is to understand the Federal Reserve Bank (the FED) and how it works.  In 1913 Woodrow Wilson (who's presidency was funded by bankers) met with a limited number of the congress just before the holiday break and pushed through the Federal Reserve Act which ...

When I decided to finally start writing this blog on moderation it was the culmination of years of thoughts and frustrations and silence was no longer an option.  There was literally a compulsion to begin writing so that I could unload what had been pent up.  Regardless if anyone else actually reads this blog or if the people that read it think that I am bonkers, it doesn't matter to me anymore.  I had to write this stuff down.  Basically this blog is my therapeutic journal that I am choosing to make public. Upon writing we efficiently and accurately express the pent up thoughts that circulate our consciousness over extended periods of time.  Sometimes in conversation when you are forced to think and talk on the spot, there is a loss in translation.  Rarely is there a sense of satisfaction that everything that wanted to be said was actually said.  Especially in modern day conversation when everything is in passing and attention spans are struggling t...