There has been a sense in the gold market through the month of February that gold is going down, a sense of negativity and discouragement. Gold bugs are giving up and pulling out. The U.S. dollar index hit 81 on Friday. The Fed is tightening. “What more,” say the bears, “is there to say?”

According to the recent CPI report, consumers need not be worried about the threat of inflation resulting from an infusion of trillions of dollars of stimulus, bailouts and other government spending. The prognostications of doom and gloomers that gas prices will reach $10 a gallon, a pound of rice will cost $8 and a Starbucks latte will run $15 seem to be just another apocalyptic vision gone bad if you consider that US consumer prices fall for first time in 27 years.

We’re not the only ones who have spotted the Next Wave of the Mortgage Meltdown, coming soon to a neighborhood near you. It seems that our very own Treasury Department is concerned about it as well.

The media will seize upon any examples to say you’re irrelevant, or racist, or crazy.

But one legal expert told The Palmetto Scoop that, even if it were passed, Pitts’ bill would quickly be ruled unconstitutional.

What does it mean? We’ll leave our readers to decide, but like Soros, we believe gold is the next big bubble, and it’s still in the process of being blown.

Gross misspending happens on all levels of government, and it’s clear that unions are one of the most overblown public and private expenses in America.

If TSA’s gross violations of civil rights and privacy are any indicator of how a national cyber security defense group will protect us from external threats, we’d rather take our chances with no electricity.

So, you want to know who “really” started the Tea Party movement? Well, it wasn’t Sarah Palin. It wasn’t Ron Paul either.

After having gone through a recent tiff with the Chinese government over censorship, Google itself is now acting like a red commie regime.

Citizens around the world, having lost their homes and their livelihoods, will protest in droves, and some are going to get violent.

The real amount of money spent on interest last year alone nearly equals the total amount of money our government takes in!

The Chinese and US defense agencies are certainly applying war game theory to tons of different scenarios, both hot and cold.

Some inspirational thoughts, ideas and cautions.

Preparing for emergencies and disasters involves much more than just stock piling canned goods and freeze dried foods.

This is the problem with our age. So much data is being shoveled out at us that the human mind cannot comprehend it. The human mind is overwhelmed. Back in the days before the computer the need for understanding the data was much greater than the need for more data.

Frankly, we think it’s great that Joe the Plumber is ripping John McCain’s butt, because he deserves it.

This is more than likely the way the elite plan of getting the guns and ammunition from the American people without having to physically come after guns/gun owners and effectively keeping you from getting/obtaining guns and ammunition, re-manufacturing supplies, and the like.

The fact that the President is having to resort to executive orders in an attempt to forward an environmental agenda puts into question not only the science behind the movement, but the underlying motivation for mandating the new regulations.

If there is one thing we should have learned from recent domestic disasters like 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina, it’s that the emergency response of our local, state and federal governments will not be enough to save everyone who is in the thick of it.

While this is not an “official” EU government report, the fact that it is from one of the oldest French Banks should raise alarms.

The engine is running out of motor oil. Are you prepared for what happens when it seizes up?

It’s information like this that should make us question every official statistic or report.

I’m not sayin’ Uncle Sam should give me what I need. My offer stands. I’ll pull my weight you give me half a chance.

The No matter how they wrap it, spin it, try to hide it, we have seen an epic expansion in the US monetary base not seen since 1932.