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Aug 02
Federal Reserve Keeps Interest Rates at Near Zero for 2,417 Consecutive Days
If you save anything in modern America, you are an utter fool. The Federal Reserve has kept its key interest rate at near zero (0) for 2,417 consecutive days in an attempt to keep the U.S. economy appearing to be afloat. See here. Savers are being punished severely. If you keep any money in a …
Aug 02
Proposed Constitutional Amendments to “Overturn Citizens United” Would Actually Overturn Hundreds of Cases
(Pictured above: Bernie Sanders, who is pushing to amend the Constitution to give much more power to the government to “regulate” (meaning fine, punish, or imprison for) (private) spending on ideological-oriented ads, pamphlets or broadcasts.) More than a dozen proposals have been introduced in the two chambers of Congress to supposedly overturn the Supreme Court’s …
Jul 31
Government scrambles to protect its vast stupid regulatory schemes from the threat of Uber
To operate a taxi cab business is to navigate through one of the most over-regulated industries in the world. But the actual act of cab-driving is relatively simple, and poor people of limited means should be able to participate and enter the market. This disconnect is caused by decades of stupid overregulation of the taxi …
Jul 31
Freedom-Of-Information-Act Documents Show U.S. Military Exerting Influence on TV Programming
Trusters of government frequently complain about private-sector money in politics. They say that private-sector voices (especially business and pro-free-market voices) should be barred from spending money on ads that could influence American politics. However, the government is spending massively to influence politics, and to convince Americans that government is good and should be expanded and …
Jul 30
U.S. Corporate Taxes are The Highest on Earth
Former director of the Congressional Budget Office Douglas Holtz-Eakin recently spoke before an audience in Washington, D.C.. The event was covered by the Washington Examiner. See here. The U.S. has the world’s highest corporate tax rate: 39.1 percent at the top margin. This is almost 14 percentage points higher than a global average. America’s high …
Jul 30
Former NASA official: sea levels could rise 10 feet in 50 years!
Every government spreads fear among its subjects to increase its power: Terror! Weapons of Mass Destruction! We’re all going to die! Just give government more power! Now, former NASA lead climate scientist James Hansen is claiming sea levels could rise 10 feet in 50 years. See this climatedepot.com report. Astoundingly, CBS, NBCNews.com, MSNBC and Slate …
Jul 29
The State of the Climate
During the hot 1990s, many government scientists predicted Arctic Ice would be gone during the summers, by 2013. Al Gore’s famous film “An Inconvenient Truth,” claimed that Arctic sea ice would be gone in the summer as early as 2015. But by the time 2013 came around, Arctic sea ice had grown by 533,000 square …
Jul 28
New study shows recent minimum-wage hikes have caused the loss of 700,000 jobs
More than a hundred peer-reviewed economic studies have established that raising (or imposing) a minimum wage is correlated with increased unemployment. The only studies purporting to show otherwise are those that occurred in unusual economic circumstances (such as in a “boom-town” situation where wages were naturally rising rapidly anyway). The strong correlation between minimum-wage laws …
Jul 28
“Almost Half” of Government “Temperature Data” is Now Fake
According to climatologist Steven Goddard, “Almost half of all reported US temperature data is now fake. [The government] fill[s] in missing rural data with urban data to create the appearance of non-existent US warming.” See here.As the globe continues its long-term cooling trend, the climate-change-socialist movement appears to be simply faking the data. Goddard states …
Jul 26
It Appears that Crime and Traffic Fatalities Have Been Going Down Since Washington State Legalized Marijuana
When the State of Washington legalized recreational marijuana in 2012, government-trusters claimed the move would cause a spike in crime and traffic crashes. But thus far, the evidence appears to show that Washington has experienced a continuing decline in overall crime and a decrease in traffic fatalities. A discussion by Professor Mark Thornton is here.
