By: Patrick Trombly Senator Elizabeth Warren is perhaps best known for advancing the narrative that the 2000s housing bubble, collapse, and Great Recession, from which much of the US and the world have yet to fully recover, were the result of “unfettered Wall Street bankers tanking the economy” by “tricking borrowers” into bigger homes and […]
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71% of Americans think U.S. economy is ‘rigged’
We all know the government system is rigged. But what about the United States economy? Well, according to a new survey, a strong majority of Americans think the entire economy is rigged. A new poll by Marketplace and Edison Research found that 71 percent of Americans think the U.S. economic system is “rigged in favor […]
5 random things for a Friday (China’s gold craze, Rothbard on demagogues, Hillary Clinton’s 1984 ad)
News Story of the Day: in the first half of 2016, China bought 973 tonnes of gold, which is slightly down by seven percent compared to last year. Will China’s demand for gold decline? The World Gold Council (WGC) forecasts that China’s craze over gold will not subside. The world’s second-largest economy will continue to […]
Nasdaq erases all of Brexit’s losses, European stock markets up
The Bremain folks warned us that the stock markets would collapse. The elite said that global financial markets would fall. The anti-Brexit crowd stated that if you were against the EU then you’re a racist and you’d have blood on your hands for everyone losing their money from the Brexit fallout. Huh? The Nasdaq has […]
Surprising: Media lambast Hillary Clinton over FBI ruling (video)
Despite the fact that the FBI will not lay any charges against Hillary Clinton, director James Comey did chastize the former Secretary of State over her handling of the emails, mobile devices and servers. Although it clearly shows Clinton is above the law because, well, she’s a Clinton, the media still tackled the matter. Not […]