Signs of the Times

"The greatest threat to the Republic comes from the Oval Office," reminds Daniel McCarthy — Our Enemy, the President. The authior concludes, "Right-wing presidentialism failed spectacularly under Bush and has now yielded to what may be the strongest expression of left-wing presidentialism since Franklin Roosevelt."

"The Bush/Obama bailout/stimulus plans are not going to work" and "were schemes hatched by a clique of financial insiders," says Paul Craig Roberts — President of Special Interests. Says the author, "The schemes will redistribute income and wealth from American taxpayers to the shyster banksters, who have destroyed American jobs, ruined the retirement plans of tens of millions of Americans, and worsened the situation of millions of people worldwide who naively trusted American financial institutions."

"Our money will soon be as worthless and our markets as regulated as they were 300 years ago," says Phil Maymin — Sixpence None the Wiser. Predicts the author, "The trillions of our dollars that the government is spending on bailouts (or 'stimulus' plans) will eventually result in the collapse of what had once been one of the strongest currencies of all time."

Rod Dreher want to know — How are you coping with collapse anxiety? Like him, "I cope with collapse anxiety by blogging incessantly about it, as if talking about it were some kind of ritual that kept it at bay." Unlike him and his family, however, we're not "getting a lot more serious about gardening and food security," but we are about financial security.