In a world full of scams and rackets, the Trump administration has floated the idea of 50-year mortgages, which Wolf Richter wrote would be, “...the ripoff of the century.”

The doctrines of socialism have been with us for more than 150 years, but no one had really tried it in a total way until the advent of the Soviet Union from the 1920s to the early 1990s. During that period, a number of communist/socialist revolutions occurred in Asia, Cuba, and Africa, all of which provided a laboratory to observe how these socialist economies would perform.

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) is a term that describes short-term financing of items, typically with no interest (at least if you make your payments on time). In today’s culture, there is a huge rise in consumer debt, as people are given the ability to buy things they cannot afford.

Yields on the benchmark 10-year bonds climbed as much as 0.04 percentage points to 1.78 per cent on Wednesday — the highest level since June 2008.

Europe’s Russophobia and its parasitic relationship with the United States has impoverished Europe and set the stage for a bleak future. 

Tether holds a record $135 billion in direct and indirect exposure to U.S. Treasuries, highlighting how stablecoins help to prop up the US regime. 

Bandow takes a  look at one of America’s greatest enemies of peace and freedom.