American Ranking Plummets in Global Index of 'Personal Freedoms'In an age of expanding national security powers, increasing surveillance state, and rolled-back civil liberties protections, Americans' perception of their own personal freedoms is plummeting, according to the annual ranking by the Legatum Institute in London.
In Washington D.C. this week to promote their findings, researchers with the Legatum Institute measure a nation's prosperity on a number of factors including health, safety, education, economy, opportunity, social capital, g... (more)
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Your "Children Will Be Fined" If You Fail To Sign Up For Obamacare: People Are Going To Be In for A ShockFree and affordable health care just gets better and better.
In 2015 the government will be activating some new “incentives” embedded in the Affordable Care Act in an effort to get more people to sign up.
But, as is often the case when the government says one thing, they mean exactly the opposite. In this case, when they say incentive what they really mean is that you are going to be penalized if you fail to acquire government mandated health insurance. But not just... (more)
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The End of QE Is Not the End of Bad PolicyRecently the financial press and media has been abuzz as the Federal Reserve moved closer to the anticipated end to its massive bond and mortgage backed securities purchases known as quantitative easing. James Bullard, President of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank, stirred controversy last week when he suggested the Fed should consider continuing the bond buying program after October. But at the October 29th meeting, the policy makers did as anticipated and "agreed to end its asset purch... (more)
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Marijuana Profits Up In Smoke Under IRS RulesIllegal drugs are bad -- unless we profit off them! Understand?! |
"They Just Want The Money!" - The IRS Can Now Seize Accounts On Suspicion Alone"How can this happen?" Ms. Hinders said in a recent interview. "Who takes your money before they prove that you've done anything wrong with it?"
The federal government does.
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The topic of civil asset forfeiture has been high on our agenda recently as federal ‘agents’ discover how to steal Americans’ hard-earned cash with zero repurcussions , and decide unilaterally how much cash a ‘common man’ is allowed to... (more)
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Hillary: 'Don't Let Anybody Tell You' That 'Businesses Create Jobs'
Appearing at a Boston rally for Democrat gubernatorial candidate Martha Coakley on Friday, Hillary Clinton told the crowd gathered at the Park Plaza Hotel not to listen to anybody who says that “businesses create jobs.” “Don’t let anybody tell you it’s corporations and businesses create jobs,” Clinton said.
“You know that old theory, ‘trickle-down eco... (more)
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Does Ebola Justify the State?
How could a stateless society deal with a disease like Ebola? Bob Murphy explains.
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Low Inflation? The Price Of Ground Beef Has Risen 17 Percent Over The Past YearThanks to the Federal Reserve, the middle class is slowly being suffocated by rising food prices. Every single dollar in your wallet is constantly becoming less valuable because of the inflation the Fed systematically creates. And if you try to build wealth by saving money and earning interest on it, you still lose because thanks to the Federal Reserve's near zero interest rate policies banks pay next to nothing on savings accounts. The Federal Reserve wants you to either spend your money or ... (more)
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EFF, Internet Archive, and reddit Oppose New York's BitLicense ProposalSan Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), along with reddit and the Internet Archive, today filed formal comments with the New York State Department of Financial Services opposing the state's proposed regulations for digital currencies such as Bitcoin. In the letter, EFF argues that on top of damaging privacy and harming innovation, New York's "BitLicense" regulatory scheme also risks i... (more)
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Who's Afraid of the Workers' Revolution?It’s finally happening: the backlash against the most impressive features of digital-age economics. I’ve been waiting for this for years, knowing that we can’t smoothly travel from the old world of command and control to the new world of personal sovereignty without engaging in the intellectual argument.
What’s been missing until recently has been the framework these arguments would take. That’s now becoming clearer. The opponents of markets just can’t reconcile themselves to ... (more)
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Sports Stadiums: Temples to Crony CapitalismThe NFL is running one of its own games on the public, and as one of the most subsidized non-profit organizations in American history, the NFL excels at tackling the American taxpayer. It should be of no surprise that with its religious-like following, the NFL receives the same tax-exempt status as a church, exempted under the IRS 501 (c) 6 code from paying federal taxes. The legislation puts the NFL as a non-profit trade association which it has been under since 1942.
But over th... (more)
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Obamacare Architect Says Society Would Be Better Off If People Only Lived To Age 75Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, brother of Rahm Emanuel, says that society would be far better off if people quit trying to live past age 75. His new article entitled “Why I Hope To Die At 75” has the following very creepy subtitle: “An argument that society and families--and you--will be better off if nature takes its course swiftly and promptly”. In the article, Emanuel forcefully argues that the quality o... (more) Compare this to entrepreneur Peter Thiel who's seeking a cure for "the problem of death."
The market creates, the state destroys. - Chris, InfoLib |
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Elizabeth Warren Says US Has "No Future" If Free-Market Embraced
If the free market as Ron Paul advocates is embraced, "we will have no future," so says Elizabeth Warren.
Why? Simple, "roads."
Checkmate, anti-statists.
The comedy starts at 4... (more)
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