Audit the Fed’ movement finally gaining steam? … In early January, Senator Rand Paul reintroduced the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, and Representative Thomas Massie introduced companion legislation in the United States House of Representatives, thereby continuing the “Audit the Fed” movement started by then Congressman Ron Paul. -American ThinkerThe Paul-Massie bills...Read More
Ireland passes law making it a crime to buy sex … The country follows Canada, Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Northern Ireland in introducing legislation designed to punish men who use prostitutes without criminalising those driven into prostitution.Now sex is being recriminalized. If people want to work as prostitutes, they should be allowed to do so. Under laws now passed in several countries...Read More
Milton Friedman had many ideas that I disagree with, and others that I think haven't stood the test of time. But there's no denying his influence over the world of economics; he was one of the field's greatest popularizers and explainers. … For many Americans, the face of Milton Friedman is still the face of economics. -BloombergNo, we don’t need another Milton Friedman. We need a pers...Read More
Audit the Fed’ movement finally gaining steam? … In early January, Senator Rand Paul reintroduced the Federal Reserve Transparency Act, and Representative Thomas Massie introduced companion legislation in the United States House of Representatives, thereby continuing the “Audit the Fed” movement started by then Congressman Ron Paul. -American ThinkerThe Paul-Massie bills...Read More
Top Republicans Propose Carbon Tax Plan To Stop Climate Change … There's a new climate change prevention plan in town, and unbelievably, it's coming from some rather senior Republicans, the de facto party of science denial. Two former Secretaries of State - James Baker III and George Shultz - along with former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr., met with Vice President Mike Pence, Trump's...Read More
Top Republicans Propose Carbon Tax Plan To Stop Climate Change … There's a new climate change prevention plan in town, and unbelievably, it's coming from some rather senior Republicans, the de facto party of science denial. Two former Secretaries of State - James Baker III and George Shultz - along with former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr., met with Vice President Mike Pence, Trump's...Read More
White House Fingers John McCain As Media Leak; Believes U.S. Senator Eavesdropped on Trump's Classified Phone … This could be the beginning of the end for embattled Sen. John McCain's life in politics. – True PunditJust the other day we wrote an article about John McCain and how he was trying to undermine President Donald Trump.We suggested that if Trump could do something to rein in...Read More
State Deals Blow to Federal Reserve, House Passes Bill To Treat Silver and Gold as Money … As central economic planners at the Federal Reserve continue their vision of "prosperity" through crushing debt and dollar devaluation, some states are fighting back. The Arizona House took a major step toward sound money by passing a bill to eliminate penalties in the form of taxes on gold and silver...Read More
White House Fingers John McCain As Media Leak; Believes U.S. Senator Eavesdropped on Trump's Classified Phone … This could be the beginning of the end for embattled Sen. John McCain's life in politics. – True PunditJust the other day we wrote an article about John McCain and how he was trying to undermine President Donald Trump.We suggested that if Trump could do something to rein in...Read More
State Deals Blow to Federal Reserve, House Passes Bill To Treat Silver and Gold as Money … As central economic planners at the Federal Reserve continue their vision of "prosperity" through crushing debt and dollar devaluation, some states are fighting back. The Arizona House took a major step toward sound money by passing a bill to eliminate penalties in the form of taxes on gold and silver...Read More
Facebook Plans to Rewire Your Life. Be Afraid … Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto, penned clearly in response to accusations leveled at the social network in the wake of the bitter U.S. election campaign, is a scary, dystopian document. It shows that Facebook — launched, in Zuckerberg’s own words five years ago, to “extend people's capacity to build and ma...Read More
Revolution in Highway Safety Needs a Little Help … Three weeks ago, I was walking home on a dark, snowy night in Concord, Massachusetts. The next thing I knew, I was in a hospital, hooked up to some kind of machine. I could not lift my legs or even my head. The doctors told me I had been unconscious for hours. They explained that I had been hit, full on, by a car whose driver apparently coul...Read More
Facebook Plans to Rewire Your Life. Be Afraid … Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s manifesto, penned clearly in response to accusations leveled at the social network in the wake of the bitter U.S. election campaign, is a scary, dystopian document. It shows that Facebook — launched, in Zuckerberg’s own words five years ago, to “extend people's capacity to build and ma...Read More
Revolution in Highway Safety Needs a Little Help … Three weeks ago, I was walking home on a dark, snowy night in Concord, Massachusetts. The next thing I knew, I was in a hospital, hooked up to some kind of machine. I could not lift my legs or even my head. The doctors told me I had been unconscious for hours. They explained that I had been hit, full on, by a car whose driver apparently coul...Read More
John McCain Becomes Critic in Chief of the Trump Administration … Senator John McCain has long had a reputation as a political maverick. But with the rise of a president who has vowed to shatter the old order, Mr. McCain has emerged as an outspoken defender of longstanding Republican verities on foreign policy and as one of his party's most biting critics of the new commander in chief. ̵...Read More
President Trump, Keep The Federal Reserve Independent – It’s Too Expensive Not To … There is talk about that Donald Trump and his administration will try to bring the Federal Reserve to heel with some appointments to the board of that body. … But there’s a definite limit to how far this should go for, as not enough people know, the point of the Fed is to curb the ent...Read More
John McCain Becomes Critic in Chief of the Trump Administration … Senator John McCain has long had a reputation as a political maverick. But with the rise of a president who has vowed to shatter the old order, Mr. McCain has emerged as an outspoken defender of longstanding Republican verities on foreign policy and as one of his party's most biting critics of the new commander in chief. ̵...Read More
President Trump, Keep The Federal Reserve Independent – It’s Too Expensive Not To … There is talk about that Donald Trump and his administration will try to bring the Federal Reserve to heel with some appointments to the board of that body. … But there’s a definite limit to how far this should go for, as not enough people know, the point of the Fed is to curb the ent...Read More
Gold and gold mining stocks will benefit from the turbulence of the Trump presidency. And, analyst David Chapman writes in Investor's Digest of Canada, the amount of new gold being found by gold mining exploration companies has plunged. Growing demand and lagging supply can only mean that the price of gold and gold mining stocks will go up.Most would probably agree that Donald Trump was the top st...Read More
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