Newly-released memos from the Clinton presidential library reveal a little more about the scope of the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) activities in the years leading up to the collapse of the housing bubble. For those unfamiliar with the home-loan industry, the Community Revinvestment Act was a 1977 act that “encourages” (with the threat of violence) banks and other lending institutions to make more home loans to low-income, non-white, and Hispanic households, and to reduce “redlining.”

The latest GDP report for the first quarter can be reviewed here.

Mark Thornton critiques Thomas Piketty’s recent bestseller, and explains why capitalism is not the problem, nor are taxation and redistribution of wealth the solutions.

By Ron Paul 

Interviewed by host Alan Butler, Jeff Deist discusses the Federal Reserve, the criminal political class, and how the collapse of the U.S. dollar is imminent.

Leonard Peikoff, much to my surprise, has an excellent podcast on Edward Snowden.  He praises Snowden for revealing the vast amount of information the NSA collects about us. The government’s program is in essence totalitarian, and Peikoff aptly draws a parallel with Orwell’s 1984.

Well, another Equal Pay Day has come and gone. This year it came on April 8th to represent how long into 2014 a woman would have to work to make what a man did in 2013. The highlight this year was when White House Press Secretary Jay Carney tried to explain away the pay gap between men and women in the White House by saying that when men and women hold similar positions, they are paid the same.

Richard Ebeling shares this great picture of Murray Rothbard, Ludwig Lachmann, and Israel Kirzner at the beginning of the South Royalton conference in 1974.