Economic Policy Journal reports on a meeting of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, which will be presided by Treasury Secretary Jack Lew. If you read the list of who will be there it looks like a who’s who of the government financial elite who are in charge of wrecking the U.S. economy. Nothing good can […]
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Murray Rothbard: Taxation is simply robbery
Murray Rothbard, the preeminent libertarian philosopher and economist, had a gift for cutting through to the truth on political and economic matters. And it’s important to understand the true nature of taxation on this Tax Day. Here’s Rothbard on the issue of taxation: “The first great lesson to learn about taxation is that taxation is […]
A primer on the economic collapse: Economic Solutions
I first read the booklet Economic Solutions: How You and America Are Being Bankrupted by Peter Kershaw shortly after the 2008 financial crisis. At the time I had very little understanding of economics or even politics. It was around the same time that I first heard of Ron Paul, as he was running for the […]
Peter Schiff says David Stockman is correct, government intervention in economy caused collapse
In Peter Schiff’s latest video blog he gives praise and defends David Stockman for his new book The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America. Stockman is Ronald Reagan’s former Budget Director and left the Reagan administration in protest over Reagan’s failure to achieve his full mandate of lower taxes and spending. While Schiff […]
New chart shows the price of gold over three-year period
Worried about the price of gold dipping below $1,600? Don’t be. This new video from our friends over at Common Sense Capitalism looks at the price of gold since Jan. 2010 to Feb. 2013. Gold has risen from $1,100 per ounce all the way to nearly $1,800, but dropped to less than $1,600 recently. See […]