by Steven Waechter
I cast my ballot early. I didn’t vote third-party and therefore my vote isn’t being wasted. It also isn’t going to matter. Since 1990, the United States has run aggregate trade deficits above $8 trillion. This is funny, because in 1990 the M2 metric of currency...
by Eric Florack
The White House this morning, is serving up fake jobs numbers… again. And they read like a fairy tale. 7.8% unemployment. But notice… the U6.. the real unemployment number… isn’t listed in the reports we all see… It stood at 14.6% as of...
by Steven Waechter
(This is the second installement of a 2 part piece, click here for part 1) Former Hoover Institute Fellow Antony Sutton surmised that there were three species of socialism: Bolshevik socialism, state corporatist socialism, and welfare state socialism. All three shared...
by Steven Waechter
In 1920, as socialist parties held power in Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Russia, it appeared that the world following World War I would be a world built by socialist planning. Ludwig von Mises, the Austrian economist, thought that a socialist world simply wouldn’t...
by Kassandra Kuehl
(The following article was written by Peter Vessenes and contributed via Kassandra Kuehl) On Saturday, September 1st, President Obama accused Mitt Romney of retreating to policies from the “last century” and “sticking it†to the middle class. Is this...
by Steven Waechter
Tax-Exempt Municipal Bonds Must End