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A must read if you’re at all confused (or if you agree) by Bernanke’s Washington Post op-ed piece from this past weekend on the future of the Federal Reserve and his role in it. Maybe, just maybe, this time the Senate will put the Fed in it’s place. The real answer would be to get rid of the Fed and get the government out of the money business altogether.

Read Bernanke’s piece here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/27/AR2009112702322.html

Professor Higg’s response: http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=4214

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Economics, Financial, Political, Uncategorized

I have been enlightened today! Today is the day that I found how to make my life easier by managing my finances with the very slick Mint service at www.mint.com. I had Mint suck in my credit card account and it tooks seconds to analyze my spending pattern over the past month. Very insightful indeed! When I get some more time, I plan on linking all of my other accounts which contain my assets. This might be the first tool that I use that will actually help me (as opposed to Quicken) implement a sane (read: useful) budget!

Financial, Personal enlightenment, Mint