Government: is there nothing it won’t interfere in? The Seattle municipal government may force Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize. The city council currently deliberating a bill that would essentially require them to join a union. Democratic Councillor Mike O’Brien introduced legislation Wednesday that he says would help Ubert and Lyft drivers as well as […]
Archives for September 2015
Ouch: David Stockman calls Carly Fiorina ‘war-mongering neocon and abortion-bashing statist demagogue’
Slowly but surely, 2016 Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is gaining momentum and inching ever so closer to Donald Trump. She, as well as Trump and Ben Carson, is viewed as an outsider, and someone who is different than the average politician. This is why she is beating Jeb Bush in some polls and trouncing […]
Movie Trailer: The Big Short
From IMDB: “When four outsiders saw what the big banks, media and government refused to, the global collapse of the economy, they had an idea: The Big Short. Their bold investment leads them into the dark underbelly of modern banking where they must question everyone and everything. Based on the true story and best-selling book […]
Here is what Pope Francis said when asked about being a communist
Pope Francis isn’t somebody who has read the works of Murray Rothbard or Ludwig von Mises. He also isn’t somebody to espouse the benefits of capitalism and free markets. Instead, since being the pope, he has constantly lambasted capitalism (SEE: Sorry, Pope Francis, capitalism and free markets help the poor more than government) and has […]
Peter Schiff: ‘Just keeping rates at zero is not enough to support this market’
For most of 2015, the general consensus of economists, financial analysts and pundits was that the Federal Reserve was going to increase interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. Only a handful of people in the media thought it wasn’t going to happen, and that turned out to be Peter Schiff (SEE: […]