What the heck is going on at the Cato Institute? Brink Lindsey, Vice President of research at the Cato Institute, sent out a series of tweets last week that accused former Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul of being xenophobic, adding that the libertarian movement “had an ugly illiberal streak long before” the three-time presidential candidate. […]
Archives for April 2017
Week in Review: Apr. 17 to Apr. 23
In case you missed any of this week’s articles, here is a round-up of some of the most read pieces written by the Economic Collapse News staff: Ron Paul: The Federal Reserve is a political institution Peter Schiff: ‘We’re headed for a major major crisis’ under Trump IRS hires private debt collection agencies to collect […]
Alan Greenspan is a sellout
By: David Gordon Sebastian Mallaby is the Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economic Relations at the Council on Foreign Relations. One can be sure, then, that his new comprehensive book, The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan, reflects an Establishment point of view. As if this were not enough to tell us […]
6 random things for Friday (state pension shortfall, media hate Trump, Earth Day)
News Story of the Day: for years, libertarian economists have been warning about the inevitable collapse of the state public pension system. Despite the calls for action, the governments ignored the problem and maintained the status quo. Now it is getting worse as a result. A new study by the Pew Charitable Trusts suggests that […]
Fracking helps U.S. become one of few nations to reduce CO2 emissions
The United States has become one of the few nations in the world to reduce their CO2 emissions. It isn’t due to any significant change to government energy policy. In fact it is because of one energy trend that has occurred in recent years that environmentalists hate: fracking. Here is a chart courtesy of the […]