Crosswalk.com en-us Sunday, November 08, 2009 Sunday, November 08, 2009 rss.aspx support@crosswalk.com support@crosswalk.com http://media.salemwebnetwork.com/crosswalkredesign/images/display/crosswalk_logo_blue_tiny.gif http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/bowyer/ http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/bowyer/11610489/ It wasn’t Colonel Mustard in the library with the candelabra. And contrary to recent press reports, it wasn’t Prince Alwaleed in the desert with a cartel. It was, in fact, Dr. Bernanke in the temple with the printing press. And since Dr. Bernanke is, in effect, the dollar incarnate — the walking embodiment of the soundness of our currency — if the dollar does die, it will not have been murder. It will have been suicide. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:11:00 GMT 11610489 Jerry Bowyer http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/bowyer/11610488/ It was because of a woman named Bertha Kinsky. She was a pacifist and a free-thinker (which means anti-religious). He fell in love with her, and they married, but she left him. He was wealthy, but not intellectually respected. He inherited his father's industrial business, which was, horror of horrors, an arms manufacturer. He was not a college graduate, but he learned chemistry anyway and developed dynamite, and became one of the wealthiest men in the world. He went on to write poems and anti-Christian plays, but they never respected him. She never really respected him. Alfred Nobel had money, but not status. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:09:00 GMT 11610488 Jerry Bowyer http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/bowyer/11610487/ The easy-money advocates had a tough summer. In August alone, the price level increased almost half a percent, raising the average annual rate of inflation for the past three months to almost 5 percent. Wholesale prices, especially of raw materials, have also been moving upwards, as has the “prices paid” index of the Institute for Supply Management's survey of the manufacturing sector (the service sector has had more mixed recent results). Across the board, the stats show a broad consensus that we have switched from a deflationary trend to an inflationary one. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:06:00 GMT 11610487 Jerry Bowyer http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/bowyer/11608865/ Jerry Bowyer appeared on CNBC’s The Kudlow Report on Friday, September 18th. The show aired at 7:00 PM EST. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:51:00 GMT 11608865 Jerry Bowyer http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/bowyer/11608864/ Perhaps no controversy in recent years illustrates more clearly the dismal state of American civics education than the controversy pertaining to Barack Obama’s birthplace. People who are woefully ignorant of Article 4, Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States again are locked in mortal combat with people who are woefully ignorant of Article 2, Section 1 of the same document. The only good outcome that one can hope for in this struggle is that they both lose. Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:49:00 GMT 11608864 Jerry Bowyer