News Story of the Day: Hillary Clinton is scheduled to attend a lunch fundraiser at the home of SolarCity CEO Lyndon Rive, the cousin of Elon Musk. SolarCity is a solar energy firm that makes solar panels and cells. It’s a billion-dollar company, whose biggest stakeholder is Musk himself. But what’s also interesting about SolarCity […]
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Peter Schiff: Federal Reserve has transformed U.S. economy into a ‘roach motel’
One vehement critic of the Federal Reserve says this: the United States central bank will never raise interest rates. If they do then, well, another financial crisis will occur that will be worse than the 2008 economic collapse. Is this an unfounded doom and gloom scenario or is this sound economic reasoning? Whatever the case […]
Report: Obama administration prosecuting fewer federal government officials than Bush, Clinton
A new report suggests that the Obama administration is prosecuting a smaller number of federal officials accused of public corruption than the past two administrations. The reason for the decline in prosecutions is currently unknown, but it is certainly a troubling revelation. According to the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) 2014 congressional public integrity report, President […]
Obamacare Turns Six: Healthcare costs have gone up, 32 million still uninsured (video)
The United States celebrated the sixth birthday of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise colloquially known as Obamacare, on Wednesday. To celebrate, Learn Liberty takes a look to find out if President Obama’s crowing achievement, his legacy, if you will, has actually worked. Here’s the truth behind Affordable Care Act: it hasn’t. Healthcare costs have […]
America’s fattest cities vs. world’s hungriest places – a tale of two cultures
WalletHub is out with a new report that essentially concludes that Americans are getting fatter. The personal finance social network released a list of the nation’s fattest cities. It looked at the 100 most populated cities in the United States, and Memphis, Tennessee; Shreveport, Louisiana; and Indianapolis, Indiana were in the top three. Here is […]