
Much of the debate over the maybe-recovery concerns the manipulation of government reports. The Western world is moving rapidly toward a stagnant feudal system populated only by rich aristocrats, rich government officials, and a vast lower class that needs welfare transfer payments to survive. Debt-burdened workers with flat wages, shaky job prospects, and government subsidies for their basic needs are serfs, not a vibrant and independent middle class of entrepreneurs selling their labor to the highest bidders.
by John Hayward29 Dec 2015, 9:37 AM PST0

The Fed’s decision to raise interest rates a quarter point for the first time in nearly a decade represents an important and welcome step in the direction of fiscal sanity. It’s a small step, but one that benefits ordinary Americans and will be disliked by many on Wall Street. And in the nation’s capitol.
by Peter Schweizer16 Dec 2015, 5:36 PM PST0

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve is raising interest rates from record lows set at the depths of the 2008 financial crisis, a shift that heralds modestly higher rates on some loans.
by Breitbart News16 Dec 2015, 12:37 PM PST0

The problem facing Democrats as they roll into the 2016 election cycle is that the economy has improved just enough for the Federal Reserve to kill it with an interest-rate hike.
by John Hayward1 Dec 2015, 1:03 PM PST0

Monday’s Chicago Purchasing Manager’s Index for Mid-West manufacturing plunge to a score of 48.7 would have caused widespread economic concern three decades ago, but today’s blue-collar employment is down to only one in twelve Americans.
by Chriss W. Street1 Dec 2015, 12:00 AM PST0

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and 20 other of his colleagues have co-sponsored Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-KY) Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2015, according to a statement released by Cruz.
by Michelle Fields12 Nov 2015, 2:20 PM PST0

With the appointment of Neel Kashkari as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, former Goldman Sachs executives will hold 4 of the 5 Fed Presidents’ seats on the powerful Federal Open Markets Committee that controls U.S. interests rates.
by Chriss W. Street12 Nov 2015, 12:01 AM PST0

Economic freedom is the practical expression of liberty – if we’re not free to sell our goods and labor, spending and investing the proceeds as we see fit, we’re not truly “free” to do anything but complain about how the government treats us. And if we don’t have access to valid information about the government, and how its activities distort our markets, we don’t have economic freedom, any more than the victim of a common swindle made a “free” choice to be robbed, themes discussed on Breitbart News Daily.
by John Hayward9 Nov 2015, 8:22 AM PST0

Senator Rand Paul is talking about America’s debt crisis, telling Breitbart News Daily that if he’s elected President, he will do everything in his power to prevent the debt ceiling from being raised again.
by John Hayward9 Nov 2015, 6:19 AM PST0

Treasury Bill rates have recently fallen to zero percent, but few Americans understand that since September 2008 this has happened 46 times, and about 3 percent of all U.S. government debt under one year in maturity has been sold without paying any interest during the last 7 years.
by Chriss W. Street19 Oct 2015, 4:34 AM PST0

Analysts were expecting well over 200k new jobs for September – which isn’t really all that great, but at least it’s enough to keep pace with population growth. Instead, we got 142k new jobs, the past few months were revised downward, wage growth remained flat, and the labor force shrank by another hair-raising 350k, knocking workforce participation down to 62.4 percent.
by John Hayward5 Oct 2015, 12:40 PM PST0

Fed Data: Federal Reserve Swindled Trillions From American Savers
by Chriss W. Street28 Sep 2015, 12:08 PM PST0

The Federal Reserve is keeping U.S. interest rates at record lows in the face of threats from a weak global economy, persistently low inflation and unstable financial markets.
by Breitbart News17 Sep 2015, 11:21 AM PST0

At the Jackson Hole Economic Summit the American Principles Project demonstrated that the people can’t be fooled in the long term by monetary magic forever. In a national poll by McLaughlin & McLaughlin 1,000 respondents were asked if they would support the Gold Standard in the United States. 39% replied yes, 15% replied no, and 46% were undecided. That is more than a 2:1 ratio for favorability.
These results and the margin between approve and disapprove are better than recent polls on the Federal Reserve or its recent leaders as shown in recent Gallup polls over the last two years: Negative on the Fed and its leaders are very high, while negatives on Gold are very low.
by Pat McKim2 Sep 2015, 6:05 AM PST0

From its founding until the beginning of the 20th century, the United States went from a non-economy to being the world’s largest and wealthiest economy. It achieved this feat on the gold standard mostly, with no central bank, (except for 36 years), and with little or no central planning.
by Pat McKim2 Sep 2015, 5:46 AM PST0

The sold-out Jackson Hole Summit, which seeks to be a conservative counter-balance to the Kansas City Federal Reserve’s Jackson Hole Symposium, kicked off with a fascinating history lesson by a Director of the Council on Foreign Relations on how the Bretton Woods Conference at the end of WW II led to the massive monetary expansion of Federal Reserve and impoverishment of America.
by Chriss W. Street28 Aug 2015, 6:45 PM PST0

You might think, as many investors do, that a loss of confidence in Beijing caused the Chinese market rout, but Beijing thinks you’ll find the real culprits along the banks of the Potomac.
by John Hayward28 Aug 2015, 6:19 PM PST0

Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee declared “We now seem to be more interested in stabilizing Iran than we are America” on Monday’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel. Huckabee said that President
by Ian Hanchett24 Aug 2015, 4:33 PM PST0

GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina weighed in on the market crash and what can be done to stop the sell off that’s occurring.
by Alex Swoyer24 Aug 2015, 8:03 AM PST0

Teenage jobs are about to suffer as Mexico’s looming financial crisis is about to accelerate illegal immigration.
by Chriss W. Street10 Aug 2015, 9:55 AM PST0

A new study from the New York Federal Reserve faults the federal government’s policy of boosting aid to families in recent decades to make college education more affordable, because it enabled institutions to raise tuitions much faster than inflation.
by Chriss W. Street7 Aug 2015, 6:52 AM PST0

The Federal Reserve’s action Monday means the eight banks together will be required to shore up their financial bases with about $200 billion in additional capital.
by Breitbart News20 Jul 2015, 1:23 PM PST0

It was a very deep depression, as deep as the one that succeeded in 1929. But in this case, the government did not intervene, and it was over in less than two years. Was this a coincidence? Grant does not think it was. He believes, as this writer does, that present government interventions have deepened our current economic malaise and are retarding a full recovery.
by Hunter Lewis12 Jul 2015, 9:55 AM PST0

International reserves, which measure global savings available for financial market investment, have fallen twice this century: once in the first quarter of 2009, and once in the fourth quarter of 2014. That most recent reserve drop is causing some analysts to warn that conditions for a crash may be building.
by Chriss W. Street2 Jul 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

I must admit I was appalled to hear of Treasury Secretary Jack Lew’s decision last week to demote Alexander Hamilton from his featured position on the ten dollar bill. My reaction has been widely shared, see for example here, here, here, here, and here.
by Breitbart News22 Jun 2015, 11:53 AM PST0