November 30, 2009 10:31AM 

# Monday Links 

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- [Nancy Pelosi](http://bit.ly/7F37PN): “The power of Congress to regulate health care is essentially unlimited.”

- Since August 2008 the monetary base (bills in circulation plus bank credits at Federal Reserve banks) has increased by 137%. If not defused, [this bomb will eventually explode into inflation](http://bit.ly/4AjCxy).

- Federal spending just pushed [the government’s debt over $12 trillion](http://bit.ly/6nJBmM). Spending has soared so high that 40 percent of this year’s budget will be funded by borrowing.

- What the NFL [can teach us](http://bit.ly/8krQNT) about the War on Terror.

- Podcast: “[The Rule of Law and the Fed](http://bit.ly/5ZC9P1)”

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