The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released new Producer Price Index (PPI) data on Wednesday, and it looks like the rate of increase in price inflation is slowing. Nonetheless, year-over-year price inflation in December remained near 40-year highs, and shows the...
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America’s Insolvency is Mandatory
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Dec 1, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
In October, the U.S. national debt reached $31 trillion, and the government is projected to wade another trillion dollars into the red in the 2023 fiscal year. The longer-term picture is even gloomier, with the deficit expected to double to $2 trillion by 2030....
No Free Speech. No Privacy.
by Jeffrey Wernick | Nov 7, 2022 | Blog
Let’s keep things simple and clear. There are no free speech platforms on Apple or Google. Apple rules. Google rules. Their rules do not permit free speech. PERIOD! Additionally, Apple and Google are surveillance platforms that require “social media” apps to do...
COI #338: Will the Dollar’s Decline Break the American Empire? Guest Mike Maharrey
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 20, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest
Mike Maharrey, from the Tenth Amendment Center and Schiff Gold, returns to the show to discuss Defend the Guard and America's national debt.
Biden Says He Will Cancel Up to $20K in Student Load Debt Per Barrower
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 24, 2022 | Blog
President Joe Biden rolled out his plan to cancel up to $20,000 in student loan debt. Anyone who made under $125,000 during the pandemic is eligible for $10,000 in forgiveness. Borrowers who received Pell grants can get an additional $10,000 relieved. President Donald...
When the Bubble Pops, Will You Be Ready?
by David Brady | Apr 25, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
The Government’s COVID-19 response was met with the obvious effects like the lockdowns that decimated the lives of millions to little to no effect on mitigating the spread, mask mandates, or even vaccination mandates. But underlying all of the obvious issues was that...
The Inflationary Attack on America’s Poor
by Thomas Eddlem | Mar 3, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
The ramp-up of money-printing by the Federal Reserve Bank since the COVID pandemic began has meant, like clockwork, an increase in CPI price inflation exceeding a seven percent annual rate. Though price inflation as measured by the CPI was temporarily delayed by the...
Shakedown Street – Cops And Local Government Shakedown Locals In Small Town Alabama
by Steven Woskow | Jan 20, 2022 | Blog
“It’s my understanding that a guy can go out there and I mean, he can fall into a black hole,” Jefferson County District Attorney Danny Carr said of drivers getting entangled financially. “You know, we’ve had a lot of issues with Brookside.” Jefferson County Sheriff...
Lunatic With a Plan: Erdogan and Turkey’s Economic Woes
by Tom Luongo | Dec 28, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since the first assault on Turkey’s finances in 2018, which I wrote about multiple times (here, here, and here), I’ve been the lone voice telling everyone that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a lunatic but he’s a lunatic with a plan. That plan is to de-dollarize the...
Alex Gladstein: The End Of Super Imperialism
by Steven Woskow | Nov 15, 2021 | Blog
"How did, as Hudson puts it, “America’s ideal of implementing laissez-faire economic institutions, political democracy, and a dismantling of formal empires and colonial systems” turn into a system where the U.S. forced other nations to pay for its wars, defaulted on...
The Secret Is Out And it Can No Longer Be Denied
by Steven Woskow | May 19, 2021 | Blog
“I don’t think there has been a greater engine of inequality than the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States”. Stan Druckenmiller "Americans should increasingly question the role of the Fed and its impact on society. It’s not normal, nor should it be, that the...
Congress Gives Billion to Foreign Governments and Pennies to Americans
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 23, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #50, Kyle breaks down the $2.4 trillion dollar spending bill passed by both houses of Congress. Many of our Representatives are pitching the $600 check each American will receive as a huge boon for us. However, the bill gives billions to foreign countries while...
WSJ: U.S. Debt Is Set to Exceed Size of the Economy Next Year, a First Since World War II
by Scott Horton | Sep 2, 2020 | Blog
Oh well don't worry about it okay. I'm sure it'll be fine. The government is in charge and they know what to do and stuff.
National Debt To Surpass $78 Trillion By 2028
by Scott Horton | Aug 24, 2020 | Blog
Uh, what? Um. That's alot, right?
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Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
What Kind of Liberal?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am a Locke-Smith liberal.
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