By: Tho Bishop On Wednesday, Janet Yellen testified before the House Financial Services Committee. Though the hearings lost much of their appeal when Dr. Ron Paul retired from Congress, the House Republicans have maintained a reputation for being far more hostile to the Federal Reserve than their colleagues in the Senate — managing to generate some […]
Archives for July 2017
Wow! PewDiePie educates 56 million subscribers on gender pay gap myth
Certainly you should never get your economics education from an entertainment YouTube channel. That said, it is interesting when a channel has tens of millions of subscribers and they are able to open up the minds of many of their viewers. This week, PewDiePie, who runs the biggest YouTube channel, briefly discussed how the gender […]
6 random things for Friday (SS payments increase 2.2%, FAANG stocks, Max Boot wants war)
News Story of the Day: the soon-to-be-bankrupt Social Security is set to increase its payments by 2.2 percent next year. This averages out to an extra $28 a month, a remarkable figure considering how much the government steals from you during your working career to pay for a Ponzi scheme. This will be the biggest […]
Hey, Trump, end the war on drugs NOW
One of the reasons why the war on drugs was initiated about 50 years ago was to protect the public from themselves, er, harmful drugs like heroin, marijuana and cocaine. Unfortunately, 50 years and hundreds of billions of dollars later, the war on drugs has become a massive failure: drugs are still rampant, people are […]
Medicad? Politician proves government education is a failure
Is it Cantwell or Cant-spell? Washington Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell was prattling on about the Trump administration’s handling of the healthcare file. Like every other Democrat, the senator slammed the president by saying he’s hurting poor with his actions. But, as she was making the case for more government intervention in healthcare and heightened central […]