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andymillette
11-19-2010, 10:47 AM
http://www.themarkettraders.com/content/maybe-politics-does-matter

It's been easy to tune out the chatter of the past couple of elections because the outcome seemed irrelevant. Whoever wins, their hands are tied by unmanageable debt and the limited spectrum of politically-feasible policy options. In fact, since whichever party is in office when the world falls apart will get the blame, it's tempting to hope the worst of today's hacks and clowns win, just to see them branded forever as this generation's Herbert Hoover.

But just when I've almost completely left politics, Ron Paul pulls me back in. It seems that after years as an alternately patronized and ignored member of the congressional subcommittee that oversees the Fed, he's built up enough seniority to run the subcommittee next year.