If the United States economy is so strong, then why can’t it handle 2% interest rates? That’s the question that needs to be asked every time President Donald Trump complains about the Federal Reserve raising rates, even though they are still below historical norms. That said, on one hand, there have been several rate hikes […]
Archives for May 2019
How the press treated Stephen Moore before and after Trump nomination
The way Stephen Moore was treated by the press is an indictment on its so-called objectivity. Moore went from a respected economic figure who appeared across the television networks to a man who became public enemy No. 1. Why? Because he had the temerity to be nominated by President Donald Trump to serve on the […]
Random Friday: April jobs report, credential inflation, Chris Matthews and virginity
News Story of the Day: The United States labor market is soaring, and you can bet President Donald Trump is going to be jubilant over the weekend. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the U.S. economy created 263,000 new jobs in April, bringing the unemployment rate to a 49-year low of 3.6 percent. […]
U.S. interventionists hurt Venezuela’s freedom cause
By: Ryan McMaken The United States has a long, violent history of intervention in Latin America, although few Americans know about it. Were one to ask the average American, for example, about the US occupation of the Dominican Republic — which lasted for eight years from 1916 to 1924 — one is likely to only […]
Poynter publishes list of ‘unreliable news websites’, names Tom Woods, Lew Rockwell
Poynter, a journalism school, has published a comprehensive index of so-called unreliable news websites. As expected, it targeted conservative and libertarian websites with such tags as “bias,” “fake,” “conspiracy,” “unreliabe,” “satire,” and “clickbait.” Also, as expected, it utilized left-leaning websites, like Snopes and Politifact, as its guiding compass through the online media landscape. Snopes has […]