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Everyone should be educated on the benefits of diet and exercise so that they can be here to fight for the future of their children and grandchildren. AND How much do you REALLY know about the current economic crisis that we are facing as Americans? Why is it happening? What does the future hold for […]

By George Lenz For two years in the early 1990s, Frank Partnoy worked for a couple of investment banks, CS First Boston and Morgan Stanley, selling derivatives. He has been highly successful in this, yet eventually quit over ethical objections to business practices employed. Based on his experience, he wrote a book under the title […]

By George Lenz With the recent introduction of the new dollar coin, and reported shortages of pennies, some administration officials and members of Congress have publicly called for elimination of the penny. Thus I decided to look into economic consequences of removing the penny from circulation.

By George Lenz In the 1980s mathematical finance began to be widely used at the Wall Street for the first time. The fallout is still being felt today. Prudential Securities, which for years boasted that “the most important thing we earn is your trust,” apologized for having systematically defrauded hundreds of thousands of investors who […]

by Edgar J. Steele My name is Edgar J. Steele. Aren’t you glad you hold physical silver? Sure it went down today – what’s more, it is getting really pasted in the overseas markets this evening. I hope it really dumps and gets down below $10 an ounce. Doubt that will happen, though. Probably $12 […]

Recent advances in behavioral and biological sciences have shed light on reasons of severe political, economic and social crises that jolt out of the blue destroying or severely crippling nations. The researchers achieved these highly promising results by analyzing behavior of lemmings and applying their conclusions to the political process.

By George Lenz Recently I am getting more and more questions on withdrawals of various pension schemes, so I decided to start a series dedicated to this. In particular, I will cover the common pension schemes available, the optimal ways of withdrawing money from them and ways of minimizing tax penalties that would otherwise apply.

By George Lenz The Democrat-controlled congress intends to raise federal minimum wage to 7.25 USD an hour. Would this step help millions of working poor Whites to improve their lives? Unfortunately this seems unlikely: the measure would probably help no one but illegal aliens, while actually hurting poor American workers.

By George Lenz George Akerlof Since the 1960s many Western institutions of political, economic and social life were deconstructioned. The institutions that were once close and helpful to the people suddenly became alien and hostile, even though they often look the same and were staffed by the good-meaning and hard- working White people. As the […]

By George Lenz Dear readers of the VNN financial column, Year 2007 is likely to bring with it significant economic and political challenges, that would influence the lives of most Americans and Europeans. In turn, the economic reporting at VNN would be increased: you can expect this column to appear two times a week, instead […]