News Story of the Day: When Donald Trump takes office in a couple of weeks, will the United States economy start to implode? That’s what millennials – those born between 1980 and 2000 – think, at least according to a new study by Country Financial Group, an insurance and investment firm. The organization’s annual financial […]
Archives for January 2017
The case against Federal Reserve reform
By: Tho Bishop This week the 115th Congress was sworn in, and there are some indications that Fed reform may be on the agenda. The combination of populist anger fueled by Ron Paul’s Presidential campaigns and the 2008 financial crisis coupled with the repeated failings of the Federal Reserve to meet their projections has created […]
Rand Paul is skeptical because ‘James Clapper lied under oath’ in 2013
Kentucky Republican Senator and former presidential candidate Rand Paul has been doing really well lately. And his latest appearance on MSNBC is just one example of this. Speaking with Chris Matthews, Paul explained that he is skeptical of James Clapper, the intelligence director who said unequivocally the Russian government influenced the recent presidential election, and […]
James Clapper is a proven liar – should the American people believe him now?
Today, United States Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said that the Russian government poses an “existential threat” to the U.S. He told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that the Russian government hacked the presidential campaign and undermined the election. Everyone is suddenly buying into Clapper’s arguments without any reserves or further questions. […]
Do more trade agreements create more trade?
For whatever reason, we are sold the idea that when we have more trade agreements then we get more global trade. Is that idea even correct? Nope. In fact, it’s “dead wrong,” says Johan Norberg of the Free to Choose Network. Although proponents of trade agreements are generally viewed as proponents of free trade, these […]