Economic storm

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The economic storm that approaches is dark and ominous. Will it blow over or rain on our financial futures? Will a huge bailout scheme allow the survival of financial institutions with massive debt loads?


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Spending less money

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Prices are rising and making it difficult to pay for food, gas and utilities. Recession, stagflation or an economic depression? Regardless, many "working class" people are responding to these challenging times by cutting luxuries and delaying major purchases and travel.

Death & Taxes

It is that time of year when responsible citizens provide for that discretionary budget that is spent by our elected representatives to run this experiment in federalism.

"A pyramid unfinished." Some conspiracy theorists believe that "the all seeing eye" atop the pyramid as seen in the "Great Seal of the United States" is a Masonic symbol. The 'Eye of Providence' (in a triangle) and the pyramid are found separately in ritual. But the combination of Eye and pyramid in not significant outside of the Seal.