It is quite amazing, on June 24th of 2005, the Priceline’s stock stood at $22.90, today it’s $191.90; a 738% increase! And that’s after a recent drop from it’s high of $262.05 a share on April 30th.

But look where Greece is on the list; 19th at 153% (at 170.5% as of 2009). That’s no where near as bad as Ireland, Iceland, the United Kingdom or the Netherlands. It’s also not much different that Sweden, Germany, France and Spain. And the United States is certainly doing what it can to catch up.

As the jobless recovery rhetoric continues by the federal government, many have braced for October unemployment figures in the double digits. The Department of Labor released the latest unemployment data today, confirming those double digit concerns. U.S. unemployment hit 10.2% in October, up from 9.8% in September, the highest since April 1983.

This is just dandy. One would pretty much have to be a blind, state-worshipping d-bag to not realize the Fed played a major role in the financial crisis. But as it goes, the government is spectacular at rewarding failure and punishing successs. So I guess this is, unfortunately, no surprise. Unfortunately, as Judge Andrew Napolitano asks, “who will regulate the Federal Reserve?” Apparently no one.

With a failed dollar we’d have far more church-going citizens eager to stockpile communion crackers. And for the altruistic of the local tribes, the communion crackers might end up back in the offering basket.

War is horrible… but it’s good for the economy. I cannot, for the life of me, think of a more dangerous myth than that. This facade has become so prevalent in the national conscience that it’s simply taken for granted… Seriously though, why would anyone actually believe this without at least a little skepticism? Wars are enormously destructive and shift resources from human needs, to human destruction.