As with the answers to most questions, history holds the answers to questions about our economic troubles.

Alas, the conspiracy theorists overlook the true conspiracy within American history. As the public begins to learn the truth about the main reason for our country's decay in wealth, look for the government to continue to push to regulate the internet. There is much at stake for them should the public become sufficiently educated.

I present to you Zeitgeist's section on the Federal Reserve, which does a pretty good job. However, the video, in other parts, also details war conspiracies, the information about which I cannot attest to the accuracy of. Additionally, 911 is talked of as an inside job, and I'm not prepared to stand behind that claim. I do think, though, that it is important that ALL Americans question their government and its motives, for politicians are merely people with personal interests and concentrated power:

Two Good Links

Although links are not the best way to engage the layman blog reader, I present two that are well worth visiting, but don't really fit the model demanded by a blog list roll at the end of the page.

Firstly, a free market look at how to fix Cleveland, and many other suffering midwest cities for that matter (like Buffalo, Detroit, and St Louis). With Drew Carey!

http://reason.tv/video/show/1046

Secondly, a collection of COLOR 1940s photographs by Charles W Cushman. They show Chicago and many other US cities as they were.

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/cushman/index.jsp