Anytime you turn on CNBC, read The Wall Street Journal, or peruse a financial blog, you will see a headline like: Financial Analysts Declares Bitcoin the Biggest Bubble in History. Therefore, whenever Wall Street sends a stern warning about the peer-to-peer decentralized virtual currency, most people don’t pay attention anymore. That isn’t stopping the barrage […]
Archives for January 2018
Trump’s Very Goodfriend: Fed nominee warns of asset bubbles, supports stable currency
Marvin Goodfriend, a professor at Carnegie Mellon and former economist at the Richmond Federal Reserve Bank, doesn’t like gold, advocates a tax on cash, loves subzero interest rates, and hated the last round of quantitative easing (QE). A gold-hating, cash-bashing, negative rate-loving governor at the United States central bank? That’s likely. Goodfriend testified at the […]
Huh? MSNBC’s Joy Reid suggests media has Republican bias
The mainstream media is no longer connecting with the American people. Whether it is for the barrage of fake news or the immense left-leaning bias, viewers are tuning out. But a tactic that is gradually being employed, particularly by those on the left, is to suggest that the media is biased in favor of Republicans. […]
Should U.S. taxpayers still pay taxes amid government shutdown?
The United States government is experiencing its second shutdown in about five years. Of course, it isn’t really a shutdown, but the politicians and the media in the swamp want you to think it is. That said, if the government isn’t providing services, should taxpayers still be footing the bill? Donald J. Boudreaux, Professor of […]
WATCH: Media’s treatment of Trump health’s vs. Clinton’s health
Why is the state of the media so depressing today? Last week, modern day journalism was put on full display, with an entire White House press pool presenting embarrassing questions pertaining to President Donald Trump’s health. The questions weren’t too surprising, but it would cause any sane person to hang their head in shame. One […]