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August Price Inflation Accelerated, and the Fed Fears More Is in Store

Fed policymaking is all about political expedience. When we see Fed policy, we must keep in mind that "managing the economy" is secondary to managing public debt service and public expectations.

A Ticking Time Bomb: A Huge National Debt Plus Rising Interest Rates

Economic PolicyInflationMonetary PolicyTaxes and Spending

Blog09/19/2023Thorsten Polleit

As the national debt explodes and the federal government ramps up borrowing and spending, borrowing costs increase as well. Ordinary Americans will suffer the effects in due time.

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Armed Neutrality Is the Only Moral Foreign Policy

World History

Blog09/18/2023Ryan McMaken

The interventionist impulse is to alienate, divide, vilify, bomb, kill, and endlessly sow international discord. Yet it is the proponents of peace and trade, we are told, who are the "isolationists."

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America Since 9/11: 22 Years of Lies and Despotism

War and Foreign Policy

Blog09/11/2023Ryan McMaken

In a more reasonable world, people like Cheney, Rice, Bolton, et al., would all be forgotten, shamed, and disgraced for overseeing multiple disastrous wars abroad and the creation of a police state at home. Unfortunately, we don't live in a more reasonable world.

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American Prosperity Is Greater than Most of Us Realize

Economic FreedomU.S. EconomyU.S. HistoryWorld History

Blog09/08/2023Lipton Matthews

Compared to how most other people in the world live, Americans have a high standard of living. And despite the talk about inequality, there is more economic and social mobility here than anyplace else.

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America's Big Three Entitlement Bankruptcies Are Inevitable

Bureaucracy and RegulationEconomic PolicyInflationU.S. Economy

Blog08/28/2023Stephen Anderson

The vast American welfare system is imploding. Future tax revenues will not come close to meeting future obligations. Something must give.

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Are Markets Tyrannical? Where Christian Conservatives Are Mistaken

Cronyism and CorporatismEconomic FreedomEconomic PolicyLaw

Blog08/26/2023William L. Anderson

A number of Christian conservatives are claiming that markets are as coercive as government. Try boycotting the FBI or your local police the next time they do something outrageous.