I would like to attempt to describe our economic model since we abandoned sound money and any constraints upon our ability to print IOUs (or what most refer to as dollars without any understanding of what that really means). Before, there was mandated fungibility...
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How to Sell Progressives on Lower Taxes
by Connor O'Keeffe | Nov 29, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
As Democrats and Republicans across the country fought over control of Congress in this past midterm election, progressives in Massachusetts and California continued with one of their favorite pastimes: trying to raise taxes on the rich. In Massachusetts, voters were...
We Must Separate Tech and State
by Ron Paul | Nov 29, 2022 | Featured Articles
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) recently got in touch with his inner mobster and threatened Elon Musk—the new owner of Twitter and the CEO of electric car company Tesla and space ventures company SpaceX. He told Musk, “Fix your companies” or “Congress will.” As part of this...
Major News Publications (Finally) Ask U.S. To Cease Prosecution of Julian Assange
by Dave DeCamp | Nov 29, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Five major Western news organizations have finally spoken out for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and are calling on the U.S. government to drop the charges against him. In a letter to the U.S. government, the editors and publishers of The New York Times, The...
College Graduates Are the New Favored Class of Democratic Largesse
by Jim Bovard | Nov 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
When Americans make lists of the persecuted, downtrodden groups in our society, college graduates rarely top the ranking. But President Joe Biden is offering one bribe after another to convert college graduates into perpetual dependents of the Democratic Party....
The Role of UK Intelligence Services in the Abduction, Murder of James Foley
by William Van Wagenen | Nov 28, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On 19 August, 2014, ISIS released a video of the beheading of American journalist James Foley who was kidnapped by the terrorist organization in 2012 while reporting on the conflict in Syria. Foley’s shocking execution became one of the most widely followed news...
No, the Labor Market Ain’t ‘Strong’
by David Stockman | Nov 28, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
Last Friday the Wall Street gamblers made another run at “bad news is good news”, taking the averages up modestly after a frenetic chase around the barn and back. But at the end of the day, it’s high time to forget about the games played by Wall Street day-traders and...
When $5 Trillion Is Not Enough
by Laurence Vance | Nov 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
The federal government seized from the American people almost $5 trillion ($4.896119 trillion) in fiscal year 2022 (Oct. 1, 2021 through Sept. 30, 2022), according to The Monthly Treasury Statement of Receipts and Outlays of the United States Government (MTS),...