At the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, former congressman and presidential candidate, Dr. Ron Paul explains that the Federal Reserve is the root of America’s inflation problem and that the solution is for “Congress must cut spending and audit then end the Fed.” Paul explains the reaction of the dollar’s value erosion, writing: […]
Smaller, Targeted Stores Replacing Big Box Behemoths
Americans are shopping in smaller, more personalized stores. According to CoStar Group, the average retail lease shrank to 3,200 square feet in 2023, the smallest since data collection began in 2006. Kate King reports in The Wall Street Journal: The average store size in the U.S. is the smallest it’s been in at least 17 […]
Americans Spent Plenty on Black Friday, but in a New Way
Americans spent quite a bit on Black Friday, pushing sales for the annual day of sales and promotions up by 2.5% compared to last year. But, reports Suzanne Kapner and Imani Moise in The Wall Street Journal, consumers aren’t using as many store cards to do it. They write: Retailers aren’t just having trouble getting […]
A Look at the Future of Main Street America
UPDATE 11.21.23: Worse than nearly all other cities in America, San Francisco has surrendered its streets to homeless drug addicts, leaving small business owners and pedestrians to suffer a gauntlet of abuse and crime as they commute around the city. But, recently in preparation for the APEC summit meeting between Joe Biden and the leader […]
Understanding the History of German Hyperinflation
As America’s leaders add debt at unprecedented rates, it’s important to remember what has happened to other prosperous nations that adopted rapid debt accumulation as a strategy to “have it all.” Germany’s period of hyperinflation is a perfect example. At Mises.org, Thorsten Polleit explains the history of German hyperinflation and its roots in the country’s […]
The Progressive/Liberal Obama-Biden Legacy to the American People.
UPDATE 11.14.23: Obama-Biden are the worst one/two presidential disgrace in American history. The debt accumulation acceleration that began with the Obama administration has gone parabolic under Joe Biden. Originally posted February 15, 2017.
Gold Abandoned to Fund Forever Wars
Abonding the gold standard to fund forever wars changed everything, according to Ferdinand Lips. At The American Thinker, J.B. Shrunk discusses Lips’s work and what that might mean for WWIII. He writes: Mark Jeftovic wrote a wonderful essay arguing that WWIII has been in the works ever since industrialized nations jettisoned the classical gold standard at the […]
Sticker Shock: $8.99 for a Box of Cereal
“I almost had a heart attack,” … lamented an Illinois house cleaner. When she saw the price of a box of cereal at $8.99 for a box of breakfast food, she wondered if the price didn’t include a gallon of milk? Alas, no: Only the cereal, which many of us would argue should be banned […]
What to Know About Dollarization
Countries like China and Russia are seeking ways to accelerate de-dollarization around the world, but the dollar remains so attractive that some countries have already abandoned their own national currencies in favor of the dollar, and others may do the same. At the Cato Institute, Gabriela Calderon de Burgos explains dollarization, writing: Since Javier Milei […]
The Federal Reserve is “Almost Everything” that Threatens America
At David Stockman’s Contra Corner, Stockman calls the Federal Reserve “the Alpha and Omega of almost everything that threatens the future of capitalist prosperity and constitutional liberty in America.” He writes: Yes, the Alpha and Omega of almost everything that threatens the future of capitalist prosperity and constitutional liberty in America is the Federal Reserve. […]
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