Feisty, Fearless Economist Anna Schwartz Dead at 96
Best known as the co-author, along with Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Freidman, of A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, Anna...
Economics
Congress Debates the Federal Reserve: Reform or Abolish?
In a rare moment of bipartisan unity, lawmakers and economists on both sides of the aisle largely agreed on two points: The Federal...
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Rep. Duncan Hunter Wants BLS to Report Real Unemployment Rate
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) is renewing his push for legislation that would amend how the federal government assesses the U.S. unemployment rate. When...
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BRICS Renew Challenge to U.S. Dollar Hegemony
The statist rulers of the so-called “BRICS” countries — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — have been subtly calling for an...
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Federal Reserve “Propaganda” Curriculum Aimed at High Schools
As the Federal Reserve came under increasing scrutiny by outraged lawmakers and the public in recent years, it hired a lobbyist to defend...
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GOP Lawmaker Unveils New Effort to Rein in Fed
As scrutiny of the Federal Reserve System and public outrage over its actions continue to build, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle...
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Now, More Than Ever, Time to Audit the Fed
The Federal Reserve initiated "quantitative easing" — inflating the money supply — to shore up banks and the economy. Now the Fed is...
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World Bank Report Shows Big Government Reduces Economic Growth
A new report published by the World Bank has come to a spellbinding conclusion: High government spending and large public sectors substantially diminish...
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Fed Chief Warns Congress of “Unsustainable” Debt, Fiscal Crisis
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told lawmakers this week that the government’s borrowing was at “clearly unsustainable” levels, warning that its wild budget...
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UN Bureaucrats Floating Plan for Global Tax
Bureaucrats at the United Nations are floating the idea of a global tax on all financial transactions in order to fund the organization's...
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George Soros Talks of Economic Collapse in the West
Billionaire investor George Soros, infamous for his lavish funding of big-government and globalist causes, dropped several bombshells during a recent interview with Newsweek...
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Study: U.S. Economic Freedom Drops for Fourth Year
The latest international Index of Economic Freedom revealed that the economy of the United States lost even more liberty for a fourth consecutive...
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Washington Becomes First State With Minimum Wage Above $9 an Hour
In kicking off the New Year, Washington has become the first state with a minimum wage of more than $9 an hour, as...
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Another California Billion Dollar Boondoggle
Voters beware the salesmen who come with hat in hand, pitching shiny or miraculous services and benefits for a bargain bottom price and...
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U.S.-Funded OECD “Cartel” Seeking Higher Global Taxes
American taxpayers are sending over $100 million per year to a bloated international bureaucracy that has morphed into a “cartel enforcer” for welfare-state...
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