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Peter Schiff Style, Roast of Democrat Economics
by HypocriteTwins | Dec 7, 2019 | Blog
Democrats argue for a high minimum wage, as they criticize Reaganomics for causing unemployment. But they have the situation backwards. The Minimum wage causes unemployment, and Reaganomics caused a financial boom that for decades created wealth that rose the middle...
Wall Street Journal: Rich Get Richer
by Scott Horton | Aug 31, 2019 | Blog
Due to government economic policy: The decadelong economic expansion has showered the U.S. with staggering new wealth driven by a booming stock market and rising house prices. But that windfall has passed by many Americans. The bottom half of all U.S. households, as...
We Are Still Undergoing A Massive Stock Market Cycle Shift
by Mike Swanson | Feb 26, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
Going into the end of last year and at the start of this year I released a series of videos in which I said that the stock market weakness last year and gyrations across multiple financial markets represented a major stock market cycle shift that would lead to a very...
The Federal Reserve And The Price Of Gold In 2019 – Mike Swanson
by Mike Swanson | Jan 30, 2019 | Blog
Today Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve is holding an FOMC meeting and before the meeting the members are talking among themselves about ending their QT bond program. This all represents the end of the tightening cycle and is helping to put in a top in the US...
Stock Market Predictions For 2019 (What Analysts Say And What The Market Is Telling Us)
by Mike Swanson | Jan 1, 2019 | Blog
We saw some wild stock market swings in the last three months of last year. Some say these are just “buy the dip” opportunities while others see the rally at the end of the year as a dead cat bounce on the technical analysis charts. The Wall Street analysts are all...
Here Is Why The Stock Market Is Really Dropping
by Mike Swanson | Dec 26, 2018 | Blog
The stock market has been going up and down wildly for months, actually more down than up on the technical analysis charts. This is hurting stock traders and stock market investors. The other week the Federal Reserve raised rates and the market fell more so the focus...
Episode 197: Has the Bubble Arrived w/ Dr Mark Thornton?
by Peter R. Quiñones | Dec 21, 2018 | Blog, Free Man Beyond the Wall
43 Minutes Suitable for All Ages Pete asked Dr Mark Thornton to return to the show to talk about the state of the economy. Mark is a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute and wrote an article in 2004 entitled, "Housing - Too Good to Be True," in which he laid out the...
This Chart Shows Where We Are In The Financial Cycle
by Mike Swanson | Jun 25, 2018 | Blog
The yield curve is flattening and that means that we are late in this economic and stock market cycle. The yield curve flattens when the short-term rates get closer to the long-term rates and can actually get inverted if short-term rates go higher than the long-term...
Facebook Just Lost $50 Billion in Market Value Over the Last Two Days
by James Holbrooks | Mar 20, 2018 | Blog
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. The Cambridge Analytica scandal has Facebook feeling it where it counts most for a publicly traded company — investor confidence. On Friday, the social media giant’s closing stock price was $185.09, making it...
The Asia-Pacific Encompasses More Than U.S.-North Korea Relations
by James Holbrooks | Sep 25, 2017 | Blog
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. In America’s latest show of force on the Korean Peninsula, U.S. jets flew further north of the demilitarized zone than they have at any time in this century. The flight followed a week of name-calling from both...
VIDEO: Bitcoin Supporter Just Trolled the Fed on Live TV
by James Holbrooks | Jul 13, 2017 | Blog
Washington, D.C. — As further evidence that interest in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin is currently booming, consider these opening lines from a CNBC article on Wednesday: “An unidentified man held up a sign saying ‘buy bitcoin’ during Fed Chair Janet Yellen's...
Alarming Signals From Chinese Debts Markets Flash Red
by Mike Swanson | Jun 22, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4OUqQoO8iE There is something very alarming going on with the Chinese debt markets that pretty much guarantees that China is going to tip into a bear market in its stock market and have an economic slowdown. Something similar is...
A Rising Stock Market Does Not Signal Economic Health
by Steven Horwitz | Dec 11, 2016 | Economics, Featured Articles
The headlines tell us that the Dow Jones is up around 1,000 points since Donald Trump won the election on November 8th. The conventional wisdom is that this shows how much confidence people have in Trump’s ability to generate a healthy American economy. The argument...
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Military Conscription is Slavery: Woodrow Wilson Edition
By the guidelines set down by the Selective Service Act, all males aged 21 to 30 were required to register to potentially be selected for military service. At the request of the War Department, Congress amended the law in August 1918 to expand the age range to include...
The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
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