“The inflation tax, while largely ignored, hurts middle-class and low-income Americans the most,” Ron Paul wrote back in 2006, concluding that “Federal spending, deficits, and Federal Reserve mischief hurt the poor while transferring wealth to the already rich.” A...
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American Neocons Get Their Iran War as Congress Sleeps
by Ron Paul | Oct 8, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Over the weekend, the Commander of the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), General Michael Kurilla, arrived in Israel to “coordinate” with the Israeli military and plan a military strike against Iran. Think about that for a moment: one of the highest-ranking officers in...
Eliminating the Filibuster and the Problem with Democracy
by Scott Boykin | Oct 7, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris recently announced that she would favor eliminating the U.S. Senate’s filibuster rule to codify the former rule of Roe v. Wade (1973) that treated abortion as a civil right. Roe was overruled by the Supreme Court in Dobbs...
TGIF: Tariffying Trade-Warmonger Trump
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 4, 2024 | Economics, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
"The word tariff, properly used, is a beautiful word. One of the most beautiful words I’ve ever heard. It’s music to my ears." —Donald Trump The once and possibly future president threatens to wage economic warfare against countries and companies everywhere if they...
Don’t Oversell China’s Economic Crisis
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Oct 3, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Recent headlines regarding China’s economy have painted a grim picture. From sagging stock markets to the continuing, multidimensional real-estate crises, there is no shortage of negative news coming out of the world’s second-largest economy. Yet while these...
What Did the Vice Presidential Debate Teach Us?
by Dan McKnight | Oct 3, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Tuesday night was the final debate before the November election, and it was the first time a significant number of Americans were formally introduced to the vice-presidential nominees, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Like me, Vance was a U.S....
Wage Stagflation: The Government’s All-Out War on the Middle Class
by Thomas Eddlem | Oct 2, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
If you are middle class and lately feel like you're not getting ahead, you're not wrong. The economic facts bear this out. The middle class household is taking home about the same in inflation-adjusted dollars after taxes today compared to their income in 1971....
Orwell’s War: When War is the Path to Peace
by Ted Snider | Oct 2, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The freshly elected President Barack Obama probably never imagined that he would be delivering his Nobel Peace Prize lecture by defending war. But there he was, in December 2009, doing just that. “I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the considerable controversy...