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News Roundup 1/18/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 18, 2017 | Blog

20 million people will not lose their healthcare if Obamacare is repealed. This article breaks down the real numbers behind those who have enrolled in Obamacare and who is at risk of losing insurance. [Link] A young man was entrapped by police into buying and selling...

News Roundup 1/6/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 6, 2017 | Blog

Former CIA Director James Woolsey quits the Trump Transition Team. [Link] Trump tweets that if Toyota builds a car manufacturing plant in Mexico, then he will impose a big border tax to sell the cars in the US. [Link] National Security Director James Clapper testifies...

News Roundup 12/30/16

by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 30, 2016 | Blog

Obama designates 1.5 million acres of land in Utah and Nevada as National Monuments. This move takes the land from state control to federal control. Obama has put over 550 million acres of land under federal control during his time in office. This is the most of any...

12/29/16 Eric Margolis on Russian election hacking, Trump vs. CIA, and the UN resolution on Israeli settlements

by Scott Horton | Dec 29, 2016 | The Scott Horton Show

Eric Margolis, a journalist and author of American Raj: Liberation or Domination, discusses the Obama administration's retaliation against alleged Russian interference in the US election; why the CIA is due for a major shakeup; and why the US didn't veto (as it...

News Roundup 12/26/16

by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 26, 2016 | Blog

Obama signs the NDAA 2017 into law. The new law allows for $611 billion in military spending in 2017. The NDAA 2017 also included the countering disinformation and propaganda act. [Link] A TSA patdown of a traveler goes way too far. The TSA responds by saying the TSA...

News Roundup 12/17/16

by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 17, 2016 | Blog

Trump picks South Carolina Congressman Mike Mulvaney to be Budget Director. Mulvaney is a member of the House Freedom Caucus, an advocate for not raising the debt ceiling, and has supported budgets that reduce government spending. [Link] Trump's choice for...

News Roundup 12/16/16

by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 16, 2016 | Blog

Trump nominates Montana Rep Ryan Zinke to head the Department of the Interior. Zinke is a strong supporter of coal. [Link] Facebook is partnering with Snopes and ABC to identify, mark, and demote fake news stories. [Link] Twitter blocks government spy centers from...

News Roundup 12/13/16

by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 13, 2016 | Blog

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence says that they have not accepted the Washington Post's reported CIA claim that Russia's cyber attacks were aimed at impacting the US election. The ODNI says they do not accept the report because of a lack of...

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The Welfare-State Paradox

"Whether ... a system of social security is a good or a bad policy is essentially a political problem. One may try to justify it by declaring that the wage earners lack the insight and the moral strength to provide spontaneously for their own future. But then it is...

The Ford Follies: Yes, It Can Get Worse

Brent Eastwood does a splendid job elucidating so many of the problems of the fatally flawed Ford super-carrier. I suspect he had to say "promising" but there is nothing here for the 21st century; this is the chariot and crossbow of the next generation. This is the...

The Steady Rise in Living Standards

"The history of capitalism as it has operated in the last two hundred years in the realm of Western civilization is the record of a steady rise in the wage earners’ standard of living. The inherent mark of capitalism is that it is mass production for mass consumption...

Pentagon Acquisition: Rotten From Head to Toe

The pattern is a revolving door of deliberate insider trading and influence by hiring retiring flag officers with active Rolodexes to be exploited in bent bidding and shadowy acquisition practices in an already sclerotic and gummed-up acquisition system that can't...

The Business of America: War, War, War!

Sachs mentions Timber Sycamore which was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the CIA and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar...

Mises on Wages under Capitalism

"While daily experience taught impressively that under capitalism real wage rates and the wage earners’ standard of living were steadily rising, while it became from day to day more obvious that the traditional walls separating the various strata of the population...

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