Submitted by The Capital Spectator
The hope that the troubling surge in inflation will soon pass draws on fresh hope born of the widely reported outlook for new-found strength in the dollar. And the hope doesn’t come a moment too soon.
As we reported last week, the July report on consumer prices was sobering, one of the […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
There has been a lot of concern lately about U.S. inflation, and a lot of comparisons to the inflationary 1970s, but here’s why that concern might be overblown:

The chart above shows the annual growth in money supply (M2) from 1969 to 2008, and it is easy to see that money […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Reeling from the highest inflation rate in the world, barred by the government from using U.S. dollars for purchases, Zimbabweans turned to a new money source Wednesday: gasoline coupons.

Private financial institutions say Zimbabwe’s inflation rate was about 12.5 million percent in May and estimate that it has probably climbed to 50 million […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
In international comparisons of infant mortality, the U.S. usually ranks behind most other countries, many of whom have socialized medicine (see chart above, click to enlarge). But do countries around the world measure infant mortality consisently and uniformly? Apparently not, see explanation below from a doctor:

The main factors affecting early infant survival […]

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Submitted by CARPE DIEM
Number of Americans killed in Iraq since 2003: 4,142

Number of deaths in Mexico since December 2006, largely because of the U.S. War on Drugs: 4,909

One reason that Mexican security has so deteriorated in the past decade is the demand in the U.S. for illegal narcotics, and the U.S. government’s crackdown on the […]

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