Cash has been the target of the banking and financial elites for years. Now, the coronavirus pandemic is being used to frighten the masses into accepting a cashless society. That would mean the death of what’s left of our free society. CBS News, CNN, and other...
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The Crisis Has Exposed the Damage Done By Government Regulations
by José Niño | Apr 2, 2020 | Economics, Events, Featured Articles
As we watch in real-time how governments respond to the novel coronavirus pandemic, some of the most predictable forms of state overreach—from restrictions on the freedom of assembly to the suppression of regular commerce—have been rolled out. Thankfully, there is no...
How Uncle Sam Will Spend $2.3 Trillion on Coronavirus Relief
by Craig Eyermann | Apr 1, 2020 | Economics, Events, Featured Articles
Before the coronavirus pandemic and the response to it triggered an economic meltdown, the U.S. federal government was planning to spend nearly $4.8 trillion in its 2020 fiscal year. Last week, President Trump signed a $2.3 trillion relief package aimed at mitigating...
Outraged at Thomas Massie? You Shouldn’t Be
by Derek Franklin | Mar 31, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles, Politics
Thomas Massie, U.S. House of Representative from Kentucky’s 4th District, took a lot of heat for trying to force a voice vote on the House floor to pass the $2.2 trillion Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. In a glorious show of...
The $2 Trillion Stimulus Package Is Funding Your Own Surveillance
by Ken Silva | Mar 31, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles
From corporate bailouts to endowments for art, the $2 trillion stimulus package signed into law last Friday has been roundly criticized as a smash-and-grab robbery perpetrated by the country’s elite. And rightly so. However, there is another provision in the...
Stimulus Bill Lets Fed Operate in Complete Secrecy
by Michael Maharrey | Mar 30, 2020 | Economics, Events, Featured Articles
I guess we’re just supposed to have faith that Jerome Powell will do the right thing. I don’t know about you, but I don’t have that kind of faith in anybody when it comes to passing out billions of dollars in cash or creating government policy. -Mike Maharrey, TAC...
Police, Military Begin Door to Door Searches to Hunt Down New Yorkers Seeking Refuge
by Matt Agorist | Mar 30, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles, Justice
Rhode Island — In perhaps the most unprecedented attack on the Constitution on which the Free Thought Project has ever has ever reported, the governor of Rhode Island has announced that the National Guard will begin conducting house-to-house searches to hunt down New...
Panic Buying, Medical Rationing Underscore Importance of Free Markets
by Bradley Thomas | Mar 27, 2020 | Economics, Events, Featured Articles
The recent coronavirus panic has provided a stark reminder about the scarcity of economic goods. From people hoarding and stockpiling common household items like toilet paper and hand sanitizer to the downright morbid reports of doctors in Italy and Spain having to...