The battle to end taxation of constitutional money has reached the federal level as U.S. Representative Alex Mooney (R-WV) today re-introduced sound money legislation to remove all federal income taxation from gold and silver coins and bullion. The Monetary Metals Tax Neutrality Act (H.R. 1089) backed by the Sound Money Defense League and free-market activists […]
Austrian Economics
What the heck is going on with Tucker Carlson?
Is Tucker Carlson creating a victimhood subsection of the populist movement? It certainly looks like it as he continually decries the success of free market capitalism and advocates government measures to limit advancements, like prohibiting self-driving trucks. One of Carlson’s latest monologues asserted that the Republican Party should not worship market capitalism (emphasis ours): There’s […]
Week in Review: February 4 to February 10
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: NEOCON/NEOLIB: Tulsi Gabbard slams warmongers after putrid NBC News report Will Bill ‘I’m here vouching for Mrs. Clinton’ Weld run as a Republican or Libertarian in 2020? Atlanta […]
Why Karl Marx loved central banks
By: Thorsten Polleit In his “Manifesto of the Communist Party” (1848), published together with Frederick Engels, Karl Marx calls for “measures” — by which he means “despotic inroads on the rights of property” –, which would be “unavoidable as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production,” that is, bringing about socialism-communism. Marx’s measure […]
Random Friday: bitcoin oversold, Mises on progressives, AOC & satire
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 […]