Monthly Archives: January 2014

Fed Chair’s New Face

When Christine Lagarde was named Director of the IMF (2011) reports, particularly in Europe, expressed concerns over her “more liberal tendencies”. However, she’s proven to be firmly aligned with advancing the IMF’s command which centers on strong Central Bank Control.

As if, and to be expected, cut from the same cloth one should not expect that Janet Yellen’s mantra will differ, in any significant way, than any Fed Chair before her. Maintaining a callous grip on Central Bank Authority will always be centered on insulating the financial markets of member banks and little else.

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Hidden Truths – Vanishing Freedoms

Having written and spoken on economic and various policy issue for nearly twenty-five years it wasn’t long into the process that I discovered, more frequently than I’d previously thought possible, that government policy was increasingly becoming a direct extension of private economic interests each masquerading under some form of social justice or progressive mantra.

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California Supreme Court Dissolves State Bar Standards

Not as if the State of California is foreign to setting new standards of all-time lows however this missive is beyond sub-nadir.  Enter Sergio Garcia, a law school graduate, passing grades on the State Bar exam and as an undocumented immigrant, until today, unable to practice law in the state.

As the bastion for the maintenance of standards admission to the Bar, among others specific and relevant points-of-order, affirms a practitioner as an Officer of the Court and bound to strict adherence to judicial standards. Now then, I ask you, what becomes of the Standards of Practice if the foundation upon which they are based, the Law, is deemed irrelevant?

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