Manarin Investment Counsel, Ltd.

A free-market is not only essential to a healthy economy, but to quality of life itself. With our country’s economic and personal freedoms being eroded day, are we in danger of sliding into List B?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1U1Jzdghjk

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For too long legislation and economic policy has been guided through back-room deals by politicians and business men with little to no regard for how their actions will actually affect the economy, let alone you. Every attempt to shine light on their dealings has been met with resistance and subterfuge. Click here and be educated as to how Congress and the Federal Reserve have misled us.

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How do you know when you can afford to retire? That's the big question most people ask as they approach their retirement years. Not enough people put in the effort to really find out, and come up short. Click here to learn how to do the math.

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To close out your week, here’s a quick joke from President Reagan about campaigning in democratic territories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK3Eo9cScEQ

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The numbers prove time and again that the economy and job growth do not improve during these spending sprees. So why do they keep trying?

Comments from First Trust Portfolios' Brian Wesbury

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Conventional wisdom tells us that trade deficits are always bad for the economy. Once again, conventional wisdom is anything but wise

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13197

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For months, we’ve been telling you not to fear a double dip recession. Brian Westbury, of First Trust Portfolios, shares with us why there’s still no evidence of an impending relapse.

http://www.ftportfolios.com/Commentary/EconomicResearch/2011/6/1/just-another-soft-patch

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The recent prediction of the end of the world proved to be wrong. The same is true of reports saying the economy is dead. It is not the end of the world as we know it.

http://www.ftportfolios.com/Commentary/EconomicResearch/2011/6/6/economic-rapture

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Recently, I found myself with the opportunity to give some of my students at Creighton University some real-life application of altruistic investments. Read more here.

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The media is always so negative. Here’s a positive perspective without all the doom and gloom.

 http://www.marketwatch.com/story/next-stop-dow-20000-2011-06-02

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