Arizona Lawmakers Advance Bill Making Gold and Silver Legal Tender
Concerned about the out-of-control Federal Reserve System and the increasingly unstable fiat dollar managed by the privately owned central bank, lawmakers in Arizona...
Economics
Tax Credit or Income Transfer?
It is a good thing when taxes are reduced. But when refundable tax credits provide taxpayers with more money than they paid in,...
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Taxes: Soaking the Rich Hurts Rich and Poor Alike
Time and again, when taxes have been raised on the rich, the poor suffered the greatest detriment. And when taxes were lowered, the...
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Putin’s KGB/FSB Converging with New IMF Banking FSB
Russia's presidency of the G20 is coinciding with some very disturbing plans to implement Soviet-style controls over the global economy ...
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It’s Baaack! Obama’s Minimum Wage Folly
When President Obama announced a proposed hike in the federal minimum wage rate in his State of the Union address last week, the...
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Killing the Dollar: G20 & IMF Push for Global Fed, Global Currency
Unmentioned in media reports of the recently concluded G20 summit of finance ministers in Moscow is the fact that the meeting advanced the...
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Fiscal Debt: Charging Ahead
Congressional fiscal debates are making headlines, but in reality our representatives are unlikely to substantially cut spending — despite the harsh consequences of...
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Social Security to Run Out of Money Sooner Than Estimated
The latest report on the financial condition of Social Security from the Congressional Budget Office hides an important fact: the Disability Insurance program...
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Capital Appreciation Bonds: Delaying the Inevitable
Capital appreciation bonds, when combined with economic ignorance and political expediency, make up a toxic brew that is likely to explode long before...
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Private Enterprise Interrupts Seattle’s Gun Buyback Program
The great Seattle gun buyback program was essentially worthless in removing "dangerous" weapons from society, but it did serve to teach essential truths...
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Obama’s Trillion-Dollar Coin Exposes Federal Reserve Scam
Amid an ongoing debate over raising the debt ceiling and Congress’ seeming inability to rein in wild deficit spending, some proponents of even...
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Dollar’s Decline Catches Up With U.S. Mint
The decline in the purchasing power of the dollar has finally caught up with the U.S. Mint, which is planning to remove pennies...
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Latest U-Haul Index Shows Californians Leaving for Texas
One of the best indicators of a state’s economic health, according to John Merline, writing in Investor’s Business Daily, is the “U-Haul Index”...
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Reduction in Social Security Payroll Taxes Due to Expire
In 2010, the U.S. Congress cut the Social Security payroll tax from 6.2 percent to 4.2 percent for 2011 as part of a compromise...
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Another Large Co. May Shrink or Close Due to ObamaCare, Higher Taxes
After 42 years of building an immense real estate and time share company, with 7,000 employees and revenues of $1 billion, its owner...
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