There have been 19 recessions since the Federal Reserve came on the scene. Worse yet, the dollar has depreciated almost 96% since then. That depreciation of our money was not unintentional. It allows for the repayment of debt with less valuable dollars as the Fed intentionally depreciates your money by printing more and more of it....leading, necessarily to inflation. That inflation always leads the way with higher prices that are not immediately accompanied by higher wages. Higher wages lag…

The below letter was delivered to my District Legislators yesterday here in Washington.  As you will get the sense WA is dealing with same sex marriage.  If you have friends in WA state I ask you to forward this posting to them and I ask that you ask them to dissimenate far and wide to their friends and family and ALL THEIR Representatives and Senators within the state. 

More than likely, this will be a…

We're seeing it more and more....establishment Republicans showing their true colors as they badmouth the Tea Party movement and elected Representatives and Senators whose sympathies lie with it. Washington isn't about us. Wshington isn't about Constitutional Law. Washington isn't about serving our country. Washington IS about the consolidation of power and preservation of the status quo. Today's Democrats are actually socialists and today's Republicans are…

Gasoline pricing

(In this article I will use oil and gasoline interchangeably.)

Ever wonder what is involved in pricing gasoline?   Me too.  One might say, in the USA, prices are governed by supply and demand.  In other words, how much gasoline is available versus how many customers want to buy it. 

(Keep in  mind, the number of customers doesn’t change, so the ‘demand’ doesn’t change.  Only the ‘apparent’ supply changes.) 

So we take the amount of…