American • THANKS FOR THE $4 BILLION SUCKERS
THANKS FOR THE $4 BILLION SUCKERS Posted on 6th September 2012 by Administrator in Economy |Politics |Social IssuesBonds, stadiums, Taxes And so it goes. In Stadium Building Spree, U.S. Taxpayers Lose...
View ArticleThanks to Central Planning Milk May Rise to $6-$8/Gallon, The “Milk Cliff”
Suddenly milk becomes a luxury good Earlier this year we wrote about milk policy in this country in the article, Milk, the New Deal, and Crony Capitalism. In it we explain that the forces driving milk...
View ArticleThanks, but I’d Rather Keep My Money under This Mattress
Neal McCluskey If his election rhetoric, or stories about tonight’s State of the Union, are any indication, this evening President Obama will talk a lot about “investing” in education. And that sounds...
View Article2012 the 2nd best year ever for bank profits. Thanks taxpayers!
Dimon wearing his famous presidential cuff links. Of course I have yet to hear anyone on Wall Street thank the taxpayers of America for anything. Did Jamie Dimon or Lloyd Blankfien ever look into...
View ArticleGold and Silver • Money In The Bank? No Thanks
Money In The Bank? No Thanks by John Rubino on March 22, 2013 · In Niall Ferguson’s Civilization: The West and the Rest, he presents a list of institutional arrangements that turned a bunch of...
View ArticlePushed into Common Core? Thanks For Volunteering!
Neal McCluskey If someone pushed you into a wall, would you turn around – after you regained consciousness, of course – and say, “it’s fine. I totally smashed my face voluntarily”? No, you wouldn’t,...
View ArticleSenator Reid spins out, This is not the first time the IRS was used as a tool...
The IRS and the income tax are very powerful tools of coercion. Do I think the tactics employed against Tea Party groups recently would be employed by a big government “conservative” against groups...
View ArticleFarewell Bernanke – Thanks For Inflating The Biggest Bond Bubble The World...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is on the way out the door, but the consequences of the bond bubble that he has helped to create will stay with us for a very, very long time. During Bernanke’s...
View ArticleHappy Gulf of Tonkin Anniversary (and Thanks, NSA, for Lying about It for 40...
Gene Healy So yesterday marked an unhappy anniversary: 49 years since Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorizing the Vietnam War. (H/T Caleb Brown.) LBJ compared the resolution to...
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