Luncheon at Liberal Rapture

midday items:

1. An Air America post lays out why the Baucus bill sucks.

2. Splendeed - wild card good deed this week. Do it.

3. I like Peter Schiff. I think he is an interesting man. I am not sure he has a chance at defeating a moderate GOP or a Dem in Connecticut. I'd have cherry picked another senate seat to run for in Utah or Idaho. Connecticut Dems are going to rip him to pieces if he gets the GOP nom.

4. Very Funny:



5. Music: Because some tuesdays I feel like hearing french pop music about business men who pretend to be bulls on the streets of Paris. Is that so wrong?

Schiff versus Dodd

Poll: Should Peter Schiff run against Chris Dodd for the U.S. Senate seat in Connecticut? Vote and see results here.

Torn between two economic lovers.

In economic terms I consider Paul Krugman my wife. The steady and sure unapologetic liberal with the Nobel prize around his neck. He hails from my home country- The New Deal - and I trust his gut like I trust few others.

However, in my own midlife political crisis I have, of late, taken an economic mistress...one vibrant and cocksure bloke named Peter Schiff. A man utterly convinced that monstrous inflation is right around the corner. To hear Schiff is - it seems - to hear common sense. Of course all this dollar printing is going to cause inflation...

Then Krugman mentions in his steady, unpretentious way, that it looks like deflation is coming. I don't understand the details but Krugman does - and I trust him...too...

Inflation?
Deflation?
Which to pick?

Lunch Break - Hyperinflation Nation

These 3 clips should be watched. Gold bug stuff bugs me but that may be a blind spot of mine.
However, I will repeat - like 'em or not - the most interesting, engaged people out there right now are not conservatives, certainly not liberals. But libertarians.






Patriotic Music: SF Gay Men's Chorus sing the National Anthem at some ball park the evil ones call "home".

Peter Schiff schools Ben Stein

My friend Peter G. sent this to me. Love it.

Watch Peter Schiff in 2006 get the 2008 economy exactly right while the other "experts" on Fox and CNBC mock him. Particularly satisfying is the grating creep Ben Stein proving himself to be a total moron. Charles Payne at wstreet.com also proves himself to be an idiot. This clip is a prime example of just how dangerous a smug media can be. Everyone mocks the one person who got it right.