What is the difference between “hate speech” and a “hate crime”? You might think this is a trick question because the First Amendment protects free speech, including hate speech, which means that hate speech is not a crime. However, having realized that there is no easy way round the First Amendment protection of free speech, civil rights activists have resorted to depicting hate speech as “disorderly conduct” or “harassment,” in order to campaign for criminal charges to be brought against people who utter any words that, in their interpretation, amount to hate speech.

Despite the consensus narrative, what we are currently experiencing globally is not “de‑dollarization,” but a broad loss of confidence in developed economies’ fiat currencies and sovereign debt as a reserve asset for central banks and institutions. This fundamental loss of confidence in the solvency of developed economies’ sovereign issuers is boosting demand for gold. However, the latest data shows no crossover or fiat alternative substitution. The US dollar’s central role in the fiat system remains intact.

Inflation, long dormant in Japan, has taken hold. As a result, investors have been frantically sending bond yields up to levels once unthinkable.

The military buildup includes the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group. On Friday, the US Treasury slapped sanctions on nine ships suspected of carrying sanctioned Iranian oil. 

The common mindset among most Americans is that the United States could never become a totalitarian-like country — that is, one in which freedom of speech is sharply curtailed, protests and demonstrations are violently suppressed, people are kidnapped on the streets and quickly incarcerated in secret prisons without trial or due process, prisoners are tortured, no one dares to criticize what is occurring, deep fear exists within the citizenry, the powers of the president and the national-security establishment are omnipotent, elections are temporarily suspended, and people have convinced th

On Saturday, federal agents in Minneapolis killed protester Alex Pretti, shooting him in the back 10 times after they had taken away the pistol he legally carried. White House Deputy Chief Stephen Miller quickly settled the issue: “A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists.”

It’s increasingly difficult to imagine anything the Trump administration can do that conservatives and Republicans will not make excuses for. There is apparently no federal power and no act by the US’s standing army of federal cops that Trump supporters won’t endorse. 

The latest example is Republicans’ new assault on the Second Amendment and against private citizens carrying firearms. GOP mouthpieces are informing us that Americans are not allowed to be armed with a gun at a protest. 

In order to make data “talk,” economists utilize a range of statistical methods that vary from highly-complex models to a simple display of historical data. It is generally held that, through establishing correlations, one can organize historical data into a useful body of information, which, in turn, could serve as the basis for the assessment of the state of the present and future economy.

“President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would like to appoint Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to chair the Federal Reserve.”