Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Folks, if you’re wondering what he’s talking about, here’s what happens. The borrowing authority is granted by lifting the so-called debt ceiling. Where does the money come from? Do you just print it off? That’s one way that you could do it. What generally happens is the Treasury Department...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If we go back to October the 11th, interview given by James Grant of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, you would have found this posted at the Washington Compost under the headline “Has The United States Ever Defaulted?” Grant’s answer is: Yes, and it’s going to default again; it’s inevitable....Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Anthony Sanders, our friend the economist at George Mason’s Mercatus Center has been blogging about this. I asked him for some charts yesterday and he put charts together. You can find them in today’s Pile of Prep under the headline “Confounded Interest,” what Sanders says about the shutdown. Check...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – To say financial ruin and financial decline is in our future if we don’t borrow more money is to equate our financial enterprises with debt and with government servitude.  God calls us to Give The Shirts Off Our Backs to the poor. Is that worthy of a manly sentiment...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Again, I fail to see why anyone that participates in, advocates for, and has been dreaming about shrinking the federal leviathan, why you are not taking the chance or the opportunity to hit the ramparts, to dig yourself in, and to encourage those that have a vote or say-so...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Let us go to the Dude Maker Hotline and say hello to one of the triad of candidates for the United States Senate for the 2014 elections that I personally know. This is Dwayne Stovall, TexansForStovall.com. Check out today’s transcript for the rest…Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Can I just be one of the few sane voices out here? The country is not going to default. It can’t default. It is not going to not make its interest payments. Besides, many of the interest payments are due to what entity? All this money, all the debt...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Of course, ladies and gentlemen, there is no FHA, there’s you. You and me are the FHA. If somebody goes belly up on an FHA-guaranteed loan, guess who gets to pay it? Are you looking in your rearview mirror as you drive right now, friend? Give yourself a gold...Read More

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - Isn’t Representative White of Texas admitting that the state legislatures are in on the debt, and the state legislatures actively participate in running it up? They’re the ones that are spending the money. If you’re making contingency plans for what’s going to happen in the absence of borrowed federal...Read More