The Plutocrats of Wall Street and Silicon Valley Are Scamming America
Central banks are now in the business of pushing up stock prices for the benefit of Wall Street and large public companies. Thanks to…
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State Legislatures Are Finally Limiting Governors’ Emergency Powers
The business closures, mask orders, and stay-at-home orders have made it abundantly clear that governors will enthusiastically embrace emergency orders that last many months…
Continue readingBiden’s Colossal Budget Confirms Trump-Era Mega Spending Will Continue
There’s little reason to assume the Democrats will depart from the GOP trend…
Continue readingFebruary Money-Supply Growth Hit Yet Another All-Time High
Historically this is a very large surge in growth, year over year. It is also quite a…
Continue readingThe Border Crisis Is the Latest Example of Government “Efficiency”
By nearly any standard, the US government’s administration of border control is a disaster. If the goal is to…
Continue readingThe New New Deal Has Already Arrived, Thank The Covid Panic
The only question now is how long this new era of unbridled government expansion will last…
Continue readingThe V-Shaped Recovery Never Happened
The “V-shaped recovery” we were promised last spring never happened. It’s pretty clear the US is still very much in the midst of a jobs recession…
Continue readingPublic Schools Refuse to Open: Give The Taxpayers Their Money Back
So long as public schools continue to receive direct funding from government coffer, with no economic connection to consumer choice, the public schools…
Continue readingIn the Culture War, Conservatives Turn against Wall Street
Wall Street is no longer a victim of the Washington establishment. Wall Street now is the Washington establishment, indistinguishable from…
Continue readingThe GameStop Rebels vs. “Too Big to Fail”
We live in the era of “too big to fail” (TBTF), when market freedom means nothing and preserving the portfolios of powerful…
Continue readingWhy the Utes Opposed Biden’s Plans to Limit Oil Drilling
Those concerned about local control and self-determination as an important principle ought to see the implications here for…
Continue readingYet Another Study Shows—Yet Again—That Lockdowns Don’t Work
Although advocates for covid-19 lockdowns continue to insist that they save lives, actual experience keeps suggesting otherwise…
Continue readingWhy Trump Voters Don’t Trust the People Who Count the Votes
Perhaps not since the nineteenth century have so many American voters so fervently doubted the outcome of a national election. The implications of this are broader than…
Continue readingFederal “Stimulus” Mostly Exists to Help Wall Street
The truth is when it comes to bailing out Wall Street, those who support bailouts hardly limit themselves to loans…
Continue reading2021’s Deficit Spending Is Already Out of Control: Here’s Why That’s a Problem
This could lead to rapidly rising consumer prices, but experience over the past 20 years has instead pointed to the bigger problem being…
Continue readingThe American Revolution Was a Culture War
For now, the cultural divide in the United States today has yet to reach the proportions experienced during the revolution, but if hostilities…
Continue readingUS Money Supply Was Up 37 Percent in November
The central bank continues to engage in a wide variety of unprecedented efforts to “stimulate” the economy and provide income to…
Continue readingIt Should Shock Us That There’s Any Consumer Price Inflation at All
The conclusion that central bankers and vulgar Keynesians want us to draw from tepid growth in consumer prices is that since consumer price inflation is…
Continue readingMoney Supply Growth Remained Near All-Time Highs In October
The central bank continues to engage in a wide variety of unprecedented efforts to “stimulate” the economy and provide income to…
Continue readingWas the Election Free and Fair? The American Foreign Policy Establishment Doesn’t Care.
There’s at least one good reason to support Donald Trump’s ongoing lawsuits : the US foreign policy establishment doesn’t want you to…
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