Economics

Understanding the Fiscal Cliff To live free in this world, you have to understand basic principles of liberty. Unfortunately, these principles are not taught in ...

[vsw id="ZsbEDAaiD3E" source="youtube" width="500" height="360" autoplay="no"] From The Truth About Liberty: How the Tea Party Can Save America You were probably taught that the only ...

SACRAMENTO - Restaurant owner Gary Honeycutt says a push in California’s Legislature to ban the plastic foam containers he uses to serve up takeout meals ...

Switzerland, the nation that hasn’t gone to war with a foreign power since Napoleon, is reluctantly debating a generational taboo: ceding monetary independence to win ...

Oh, Monsanto, you sly dog.You keep trying to make us believe you are "committed to sustainable agriculture" with your canny advertisments on American Public Media, ...

Nearly two years after ABC News cameras uncovered young children toiling away in Michigan's blueberry fields, federal investigators have found yet another disturbing example of ...

Here's a great interview of Steve Wynn. He discusses the stupidity of government policy and the destructive national debt. Also, he has the simplest explanation ...

The debate on whether to raise the debt ceiling serves as reminder of what happens when you let the government own something. If you want ...

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators on Tuesday revived an ambitious budget plan that could provide new ideas for breaking the impasse in Congress over ...

It’s a new one in the annals of city government. The cash-strapped Bloomberg administration has mounted a “sting operation” against city beekeepers — ticketing a ...

Chairman Ben Bernanke faced-off with Fed-hating Representative Ron Paul during his monetary policy report to Congress on Wednesday. The head of the Fed was forced ...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress Wednesday that a new stimulus program is in the works that will entail additional asset purchases, the clearest ...

Don't worry about all the scary things you hear; defaulting on the national debt (a) won't happen, and (b) is the best thing that could ...

Medicare, Social Security Funds Expiring Sooner, U.S. Says - Businessweek. TAL Commentary: The difference between Bernie Madoff and the US Government is that Madoff is ...

Dallas keeps $2,000 found by honest teen | wfaa.com Dallas - Fort Worth. DALLAS — Dallas  will keep $2,000 found by a teenager in a ...

The Foundational Economic Myth of Our Era: Government Cured the Great Depression. May 6, 2011 Economist Thomas Sowell recently challenged the Great Myth of FDR ...

There is no Social Security. First in the sense that the money paid into the Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid (which I'll call "social security" for short) system ...

Like a lot of things, economics is not inherently difficult to understand -- what’s hard to understand is the complex stuff “experts” say when they’re ...

Our entire monetary system is based on a complete fantasy. It's a hoax, and you're the dupes. If anyone else did what our federal banking system ...

Phony Money Destroys Capitalism To understand how this works, you need to know what phoney money is, and what capitalism is. Capitalism is simply the ...

"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debase the currency." -- Nikolai Lenin, founder of the Soviet Union "Currency" is defined as ...