In South Africa, for half a million dollars, you can purchase a genuine castle complete with armor, high security, and a golf course. Stradford Castle, nestled in South Africa's most gorgeous lake, is engraved with words of wisdom from ancient dukes and holds precious hand-crafted stained glass. In San Francisco, for 500K you'll afford a junior one bedroom with a spacious sleeping alcove. If you crane your neck out the bathroom window, you may even get a "peek-a-boo view" of the Bay Bridge.

Today in his press conference, a reporter asked President Bush whether there was a "Crisk of a recession." Bush declined to answer, pointing out that he's never been very good at "Econ 101"

As an American historian who knows something of economic law, having learned from the Austrians, I became intrigued with how the United States had remained prosperous, its economy still so dynamic and productive, given the serious and recurring economic fallacies to which our top leaders (political, corporate, academic) have subscribed and from which they cannot seem to free themselves%u2014and alas, keep passing down to the younger generation.

During the chaos in the monkey cage, Chen saw something out of the corner of his eye that he would later try to play down but in his heart of hearts he knew to be true. What he witnessed was probably the first observed exchange of money for sex in the history of monkeykind.

Most people are probably aware that governments can print? money. This is spelled out in almost every countrys constitution (or similar document of a different name). It is also spelled out that ONLY government can create money. However, in direct contravention of that basic law of all lands, banks create money all the time. In this document, GCM is short for government created money and BCM for bank created money.