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There Is Something Fundamentally Unfair About A Government That Takes Away So Much Of People's Money, Power, And Personal Control While Telling Them That Life Will Be Better As A Result.

Over Time, There's A Very Close Correlation Between What Happens To The Dollar And What Happens To The Price Of Oil. When The Dollar Gets Week, The Price Of Oil, Which, As You Know, And Other Commodities Are Denominated In Dollars, They Go Up. We Saw It In The '70s, When The Dollar Was Savagely Weakened.

You Make More Money Selling Advice Than Following It. It's One Of The Things We Count On In The Magazine Business -- Along With The Short Memory Of Our Readers.

Obviously, Things Can Get Derailed, Particularly If, Which Looks More And More Likely, You Get A Blow-up Between Israel And Iran. I Think That's A Very Real Probability Now. But Barring Some Real Blow-up, The U.s. Economy Will Grow, After A Slow First Quarter, About 3, 3.5 Percent This Year, Far Better Than It Was In 2011.

The Phenomenon Of Home Schooling Is A Wonderful Example Of The American Can-do Attitude. Growing Numbers Of Parents Have Become Disenchanted With Government-run Public Schools. Many Parents Have Simply Taken Matters Into Their Own Hands, Literally.