News Story of the Day: Everyone’s favorite billionaire has always supported hiking taxes, famously saying that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary. This line was always about the income tax, not on things like capital gains or securities transactions. So, what does he think of the latest corporate buyback restriction scheme by […]
Archives for February 2019
Did Ron Paul revive the anti-war right?
While President Donald Trump made a lot of contradictions in his State of the Union address pertaining to foreign policy, wars, and regime change, the overall sentiment was that it’s an improvement of the last 30 years. He may not be a full-blown non-interventionist like Ron Paul, but at least he is showing The Swamp’s […]
Why did the CFTC not find silver market manipulation?
A member of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee today pressed the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on its conspicuous failure to uncover the very silver market manipulation now being prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice. In a probing letter dated February 5 to CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo, Rep. Alex X. Mooney (R-WV) […]
Democrats propose tax on financial trades ahead of 2020 election
Despite their obvious close friendship with Wall Street, the Democrats have placed a bullseye on the financial industry’s back. The Democratic leadership wants to restrict corporate buybacks, freshmen want to impose a wealth tax and a 70 percent marginal tax rate, and now a handful of officials want to slap a financial transaction tax on […]
WATCH OUT: David Duke endorses Tulsi Gabbard, she denounces ex-KKK grand wizard
Well, the mainstream media is going to have a field day with this one. Former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke has endorsed Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) and her 2020 presidential bid. Duke tweeted an article about President Donald Trump keeping troops in Iraq and added: “Tulsi Gabbard for President. Finally a […]