Texas Launches Gold-backed Bank, Challenging Federal Reserve
The State of Texas is setting up a gold-backed bank that will allow depositors to bypass the controversial Federal Reserve System and its...
Economics
Globalist Assault on Tax Competition Rouses Opposition
As part of what experts call a war on tax competition and low taxes, a coalition of high-tax governments from around the world...
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Has the Federal Reserve Sold the Gold at Fort Knox?
Is there gold at Fort Knox? Has the Federal Reserve sold it in order to manipulate the economy? An audit might answer these...
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More Proof People Are Moving From High Tax States
Americans are exercising the freedom to move from high-tax, high-debt, Democrat-controlled states to more free ones. ...
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U.S. Financial Outlook has “Worsened Dramatically”
In its just-released report “The 2015 Long-Term Budget Outlook,” the Congressional Budget Office stated bluntly that the long-term outlook for the federal budget...
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Is Push by Cities for Higher Minimum Wage a Good Idea?
Seattle, Los Angeles, and many other cities are passing minimum-wage laws; however, history has shown that wages and prices should be set by...
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Kansas Considers Tax Increases Just as Its Economy Revives
It's to be hoped that common sense prevails in Topeka. It's far too soon to end the experiment which would quash the economic...
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Ben Carson Favors Raising Minimum Wage, But Is That a Good Idea?
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson thinks the federal government should decide wages. ...
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Fair Trade Advocates Pan Obama’s Nike Visit
President Obama picked what appears to be an odd venue for a speech today promoting a pending trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership. ...
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Corporate Globalists Hold Off-record Meeting With Congress Staffers on TPA
Global Business Dialogue, a key corporatist lobbying group for so-called Free Trade agreements, is upping the pressure for passage of “Fast Track” Trade...
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First-quarter GDP Report Is Awful
The new report by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) was stark: The economy stalled in the first quarter in every sector, with...
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The 99%: Why Are They Barely Treading Water?
VIDEO - Why are the 99% being left behind in the economy? Tom Eddlem investigates with his latest cover story for The New...
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Tax Freedom Day Falls Later, Americans Spend More on Taxes Than Food, Clothing, Housing
Tax Freedom Day — the first day of the year in which Americans as a whole have theoretically earned enough income to pay...
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Greece on the Verge of Default — Again
Greece is flirting once again with default and withdrawal from the eurozone — and this time, Greece's leaders may be serious. ...
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Using Phony Job and Export Claims to Push TPP Fast Track
The Peterson Institute has discredited itself repeatedly with promised benefits from NAFTA and other free trade agreements that failed spectacularly, but it is...
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