Last week, the Justice Department announced criminal charges against Anatoly Legkodymov for violating anti‐money laundering laws while operating Bitzlato, an off‐shore crypto exchange alleged to have processed over $700 million in illicit funds over several years....
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What If the Davos Agenda Has Already Been Defeated?
by Tom Luongo | Jan 25, 2023 | Featured Articles
In November 2021 I wrote a piece entitled “Have We Finally Reached Peak Davos?” This article was scarily spot on. When you’ve written as much as I have over the past five years, however, it’s easy to look back and point at how prescient you were. Even if you’ve gotten...
Another Cycle of Debt Ceiling Hysteria
by Ron Paul | Jan 25, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
This week the U.S. government reached its 31.4 trillion dollars borrowing limit, better known as the “debt ceiling.” This led to a showdown among House Republicans, President Biden, and congressional Democrats. House Republicans are demanding that President Biden and...
‘Defend the Guard’ Receives Outstanding Committee Hearing in New Hampshire
by Dan McKnight | Jan 24, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
"I didn't know a lot about the Guard problem until I got involved in this, and the folks from Bring Our Troops Home sent me this very, extremely informative booklet on defending the Guard. And it's now called the Defend the Guard bill." That’s how State Rep. John...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
by Keith Knight | Jan 19, 2023 | Blog
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...
David Stockman’s Explainer to the 2023 Economy
by David Stockman | Jan 12, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
You can count on the knuckleheads at Bloomberg to start off the year with still another dead-wrong proposition. That is, more nonsense about the “strong” labor market—-one so strong that it is purportedly even defying the mighty Fed. The latest US employment report is...
No More ‘Better Mousetraps’: How Financialization Discourages Technological Improvement
by Zack Sorenson | Jan 11, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
Capitalism is a social technology that directs resources toward valuable uses, increasing the total wealth in society. As a social technology, it organizes people and resources into systems and processes. When capitalism directs resources toward processes that...
Ban This!
by Scott Horton | Jan 11, 2023 | Blog
Well shoot. I got kicked off of Twitter again. Not sure why. Though I did make a crack that Jordan Peterson should jump off a bridge since he has no dignity since he RTs the MeK cult on regime changing Iran. I mean I didn't really say go kill yourself. It was more...
Joe Biden Is Lying About the Jobs Numbers
by Ryan McMaken | Jan 11, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
The personal savings rate is near seventeen-year lows. Credit card debt is at record levels. Millions of prime-age workers have quit the job market, and full-time employment continues to wither. On the other hand, the Biden Administration wants you to think things...
The IRS Straps on Their Jackboots to Enforce Biden’s Tax Laws
by Jim Bovard | Jan 9, 2023 | Featured Articles
The Internal Revenue Service is perhaps the ultimate sacred cow in Washington. It is the “goose that lays the golden eggs” for the city’s power and prestige, delivering trillions of dollars to politicians to work miracles (or at least get reelected). When criticism...
AOC is Dumber Than I Thought: Minimum Wage Edition
by Keith Knight | Jan 7, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
Progressives will admit higher prices hurt those with the lowest incomes, but when it comes to raising the price of labor they ignore that very economic reality: Charging more for X discourages X from being consumed. When you raise the price of employing someone:...
Can Wage Transparency Fix the Pay Gap?
by Walter E. Block | Jan 4, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
Will wage transparency reduce or eliminate the pay gap between men and women? Yes and no. Let’s take the no side first. Wage transparency will not reduce or eliminate this pay gap because it emanates from real differences in productivity (actually discounted marginal...
Where Have All the Working Men Gone?
by Ryan McMaken | Dec 29, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
Last week, CNN featured a story called "Men are dropping out of the workforce. Here's why" The article went on to tell us virtually nothing at all about why so many men are leaving the workforce. Although as many as seven million men have stayed out of the workforce...
All I ever wanted to do was find a way to pay Will Grigg
by Scott Horton | Dec 28, 2022 | Blog
William Norman Grigg was the kindest, smartest, best educated and most eloquent American spokesman for the cause of liberty, on the radio or in print — ever. But the poor guy was always broke, trying to hold together a giant family while writing freelance articles for...
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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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