As this article shows, technology creates more jobs than it destroys – despite the claims to the contrary, innovation is a job creator, not a job demolisher”. But this issue keeps receiving attention. For example, Bill de Blasio’s “robot tax” idea and Andrew Yang’s...
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The Militarization Of The American Mind
by Steven Woskow | Sep 4, 2019 | Blog
It's become obvious the government (mainly the security state) wants to completely take over social media (they probably have already). Now ICE is going to use fake accounts to monitor the social media of foreigners seeking to enter the country. Eventually, this...
Tulsi, Kashmir, and Iran
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 6, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #384 I cover Tulsi Gabbard's positions on BDS, India's crackdown in Kashmir, and Iran possibly seizing an Iranian ship in the Gulf. Last week, Tulsi voted for a bill that condemned BDS. She received some criticism from her base and has now become a cosponsor of...
News Roundup 8/5/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 5, 2019 | News Roundup
US News Five police officers who killed two unarmed people got their jobs back. The officers fired dozens of shots into the victim's car. [Link] The new Defense Secretary will review the contract for the Pentagon cloud program. [Link] Tulsi Gabbard becomes a...
Today’s Federal Reserve Rate Cut Marks The Start Of A New Financial Era
by Mike Swanson | Aug 2, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Today before the open you know that the Federal Reserve is going to do an interest rate cut today, because this has been the most anticipated and talked about Federal Reserve rate cut perhaps in our lifetime. The last Federal Reserve rate cut happened in 2008. That...
US Police Have Killed Over 1,200% More Citizens Than Mass Shooters Since 2015
by Matt Agorist | Jul 18, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Tragically, in America, mass shootings — in which murdering psychopaths go on rampages in public spaces — have claimed the lives of 339 people since 2015. While this number is certainly shocking and far too high, during this same time frame, police in America have...
7/12/19 Daniel Lazare on the End of Russiagate
by Scott Horton | Jul 14, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Lazare gives an update in the indictment of the Russain Internet Research Agency, who actually showed up in American court, contrary to the expectations of Robert Mueller. In Mueller's report, he alleges that the firm conducted their activity on American social...
Child Porn Sharing On Pentagon Computers
by Steven Woskow | Jul 2, 2019 | Blog
So bad congress has to finally act - it only took them a decade. Congress has known for at least a decade that child porn trading on Defense Department computers was a problem. Immigration and Customs Enforcement identified 5,200 people “subscribed to websites that...
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Free Trade Facts Don’t Matter to Democrats or Republicans
Both parties tend to ignore facts about the benefits of free trade because both parties oppose free trade.
The Government Had to Bankrupt Spirit Airlines to Save It
The US government is very good at destroying things on the pretense that its actions are required to save the things destroyed.
Paul Krugman: The Dollar Can’t Collapse! Unless…
The scenarios under which Krugman says the dollar could collapse are not hypothetical. They are already here.
Taking It for Granted
"Capitalism, says Marx, unthinkingly repeating the fables of the eulogists of the Middle Ages, has an inevitable tendency to impoverish the workers more and more. The truth is that capitalism has poured a horn of plenty upon the masses of wage earners who frequently...
Taliban is Still on the Western Dole
However, the Taliban is the group handing out NGO licenses in Afghanistan. If a Taliban sympathizer asks for an NGO license, they get it. So, many of these groups send money directly to the Taliban or to support the families of suicide bombers. Legend also said...
The Miracle of Mass Production
"The fact that my fellow man wants to acquire shoes as I do, does not make it harder for me to get shoes, but easier." —Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
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