Email from Libertarian Party 2008 VP Candidate Wayne Root to IPR today:
I am proud to announce…
I am now a weekly columnist for Forbes.com.
My column is titled:
Wayne Allyn Root: CAPITALIST EVANGELIST.
You can read my first column for Forbes below:
Meanwhile, at RootForAmerica.com, Wayne has predictions for 2012.
Looks like this gig lasted about one month. Last article I can find posted on Forbes by Mr. Root was published 14 February 2012.
And we will know the outcome of one of his predictions (although his timing was off — it’s coming 4 months earlier than he predicted) in about 6 hours —
“Prediction: Just before the election the U.S. Supreme Court rules against the individual mandate, thereby killing Obamacare. Even with a total failure of his progressive/socialist agenda, Obama’s class warfare appeal to the 50% who pay no income taxes makes him a formidable opponent.”
Congrats Wayne! Looks like a good gig. If you can bite the hand that feeds you once in a while it’ll be valuable for the cause.
BTW – is Sandy the same publicist that you claimed previously doesn’t provide any biographical information to the clients she lines up for you?
Congratulations Wayne. Forbes is a respected and popular magazine. I have noticed some favorable articles about Ron Paul there recently.
Congrats, Wayne! Forbes is a great publication / website.
Ouch.
Hurts just thinking about it.
Ah, the “too big to fail” argument.
Well, what do you propose?
Governments can bail out the banksters, but who will bail out the governments?
It seems to me that all you are doing is postponing the day of reckoning and making it worse.
Let the chips fall. There will be pain either way, but a market can solve it better than a bureaucracy.
Sent to IPR
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
Las Vegas, Nevada–January 12, 2012– Former Libertarian Vice Presidential nominee, best-selling author, and national media personality Wayne Allyn Root just announced a weekly column at Forbes.com titled “CAPITALIST EVANGELIST.”
Now Wayne has another high-profile deal to announce. Wayne has agreed to become a video columnist and commentator for the Personal Liberty Media Group.
PersonalLiberty.com was founded in 2008 and has quickly become one of the most popular eNewsletters in America, reaching over 825,000 readers daily.
The PersonalLiberty web site was ranked #8 on the list of Top 50 Libertarian web sites worldwide by Alexa in 2011, according to a 3-month average of Alexa worldwide traffic. Wayne will provide his exclusive weekly “Root Rant” VIDEO commentaries to the Personal Liberty Digest eNewsletter and PersonalLiberty.com each week, as well as print commentaries.
For more information, please contact Wayne’s publicist Sandy Frazier of SandyPR at:
[email protected]
@13 I believe it is Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
surgery. Can be very risky.
#12, yep let the world wide banking system collapse. The people are sure to turn to libertarianism then!
Don,
What is AAA surgery?
Hope all goes well.
Nationalizing failed banks is not the solution.
Letting them fail is.
@10
“Perhaps we should look to the Iceland solution. They defaulted on their bonds, nationalized their failed banks, and arrested bank executives. ”
THIS right here.
@1 From Bob Morris at polizeros:
To put it succinctly, the core problem in Europe is that the big banks and financial institutions refuse to take write downs on the bad loans they made and the dodgy bonds they bought. As with our real estate crisis here, everyone seemed to know full well that they were buying and selling junk, but no one cared about long-term consequences. Everyone got rich, at least for a while. If the large financial institutions genuinely followed the principles of capitalism, then the solution would be obvious. Let sick and ill institutions die so healthy ones can take their place. Instead, we appear to have socialism (or is it corporatism) for the 1%, as the big banks continually get propped up and no one goes to prison.
Perhaps we should look to the Iceland solution. They defaulted on their bonds, nationalized their failed banks, and arrested bank executives. Their economy is now recovering. Sooner rather than later, the defaults are bound to happen in Europe. The only question is, will they occur in an orderly manner?
@8 Thanks for the moment of zen
So that you are ready (or as ready as you can be) for the AAA surgery?
When you find out, let me know exactly what they plan to do. and when.
Until then, I do understand why you are feeling depressed. I know it doesn’t help, but I definitely understand your frustration.
thanks for updating me -sandy
Nice!
So I guess I will continue to not buy Forbes, the journal of the plutocracy.
I don’t think moving Steve Forbes is the objective.
It’s reaching more readers.
Let’s see how effective Wayne proves in moving
Steve Forbes from a supporter of Newt to a supporter of GJ.
Congratulations Wayne.
Another DARK AGE !!! or PASS the ammo maw !!!
By Wayne Allyn Root,
Happy New Year. Here is my 10th annual list of predictions for 2012 (and beyond):
Prediction: The ancient Chinese proverb says, “May you live in interesting times.” Well, we’re here! 2012 will be the most interesting, significant, exciting and frightening year in U.S. and perhaps world history.
Prediction: The EU economic collapse will accelerate. Not only are most major European banks insolvent, but so are entire EU countries. Throughout 2012, the EU will teeter from crisis to crisis. Eventually this will lead to a massive European economic depression, which will eventually lead to the breakup of the EU and the end of the Euro. No longer is this a question of “if,” but only of “when.”
Prediction: Proving that a country can’t spend itself into prosperity, the day of reckoning will come to Japan, where even a slight increase in their interest rates will consume their budget and cause them to default on their bonds. The markets will panic upon the recognition that Japan is like Italy, only much bigger.
Prediction: Here in America we will see dramatic economic crisis as well. Our country can no longer afford to spend trillions on bailouts, stimulus, entitlements, or government employee pensions. The gravy train is over. The sad and frightening reality of all of this will sink in, in 2012.
Prediction: A series of economic tragedies and unprecedented crises will shake America. All of this will lead to bank runs, civil unrest, rising levels of violence, unprecedented middle class fear and panic, and record sales of guns, ammo, gold & silver — just as I predicted over a year ago in my commentary titled “The Gold, Silver & Bullet economy.
Prediction: The Fed and central banks across the globe react to crisis and deteriorating economic conditions with massive money-printing and “quantitative easing.” The result is inflation and the best investment opportunity in a generation — Gold, Silver and precious metals.
Prediction: Commercial real estate will decline dramatically, just as residential real estate already has. Landlords will hand the keys back to banks for empty shopping centers, strip malls, and office buildings.
Prediction: U.S. States, counties and cities will announce insolvency and bankruptcy in record numbers, creating a loss of faith in municipal and government bonds. California will be Exhibit A for how bankrupt states truly are.
Prediction: Unemployment will remain the #1 unsolvable problem for the U.S. economy, with potential for increases to double digits due to Obama’s climate of fear and loathing towards business owners; more offshoring of jobs to lower wage and lower tax countries; anti-business regulations imposed by government; the threat of higher taxes; and the continued failure of the public education system (producing millions of graduates incapable of performing skilled 21st century jobs).
Prediction: China, the one bright light in the world economy, goes dark in 2012, as the great Chinese fraud unravels. The Chinese economy will be unmasked as on the verge of economic collapse.
Prediction: The so-called “Arab Spring” continues its descent towards a “Radical Muslim winter.” Across the Arab world, new “progressive” governments turn out to be far worse, far more radical, far more violent, far more despotic than the regimes they replaced. All of this “hope and change” becomes a nightmare for the U.S. and Israel.
Prediction: Mitt Romney wins the GOP nomination in a landslide, and selects Chris Christie or Marco Rubio as his running mate.
Prediction: Barack Obama dumps Joe Biden from his Presidential ticket and chooses Hillary Clinton as his new running mate. Biden becomes Secretary of State.
Prediction: A third party candidate changes the dynamics of the 2012 election — either Gary Johnson for the Libertarian Party, Ron Paul, Donald Trump, or New York Mayor Bloomberg as independents.
Prediction: Just before the election the U.S. Supreme Court rules against the individual mandate, thereby killing Obamacare. Even with a total failure of his progressive/socialist agenda, Obama’s class warfare appeal to the 50% who pay no income taxes makes him a formidable opponent.
Prediction: The much maligned Tea Party (which is more a belief in the American dream than a political movement) springs to life, and just as in 2010, leads the GOP to major gains, including majority control of both the House and Senate.
Prediction: The election follows the same pattern as the 1980 Reagan/Carter election — with the race remaining razor close until the last week. Just as with Jimmy Carter in 1980, voters enter the voting booth asking “Can we survive four more years of Barack Obama?” The answer to that question is a resounding “NO!” Like Reagan, Romney wins in a late-breaking landslide.
Prediction: The GOP Presidential victory will prove too little, too late. Romney will turn out to be a tax raiser and spending raiser. He will compromise on core Tea Party values. High income Americans and retirees will react to the economic malaise by leaving the country in record numbers looking for a safe haven. (God Forbid: If Obama’s class warfare campaign is able to win him a second term, America will quickly fall into a full fledged depression and plunge the world into a ‘dark age’.)
Prediction: By 2016, it will become clear that neither Republicans nor Democrats have the solutions to save America from a death spiral of massive debt, inflation, unemployment, and rising interest rates. U.S. voters will finally consider a new path — a third party that truly desires to cut spending and the size of government dramatically.
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Goldman Sachs largest donars to both Romney and Obama !!! The FIX is always in my friends.