In fact, Tesla and Musk, a self-made billionaire whose Space X startup is privatizing space travel, would seem to be poster children for the type of entrepreneurialism Romney says he seeks to unleash.

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In the U.S., the Federal Reserve has been lambasted, mostly from a chorus of libertarian minded investors, and of course Rick Santelli on CNBC, the poster child of anti-QE, for any type of monetary stimulus that weakens the dollar.

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