Navigating Through the Storms
• lewrockwell.com By Jim QuinnSeveral weeks ago I had to drive west on the Pennsylvania Turnpike to pick up my son after his sophomore year at Penn State.
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Several weeks ago I had to drive west on the Pennsylvania Turnpike to pick up my son after his sophomore year at Penn State.
Threats for Government Shutdown
When social security was first implemented in the 1930's, America was a very different country. Especially in regards to demographics. The average life expectancy was roughly 18 years younger than it is now, and birth rates were a bit higher than t
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The military-industrial complex wins – and we lose
Deep within the Treasury Department sits a once-secret plan written by the Obama administration that could lead to the first-ever default on U.S. debt.
Includes $75 Billion for Overseas Contingency Operations
After voting to repeal and replace Obamacare 60 times under the Obama administration, Senate Republicans, now that it counts, are locked in a heated civil war over how or if they should even modify the controversial legislation.
A world in which "we do these things because they're easy" has one end-state: collapse. On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy gave a famous speech announcing the national goal of going to the moon by the end of the decade. ( JFK's s
Illinois now has a budget, the first in three fiscal years. An excellent writeup on The Stump entitled Illinois Financial Disaster: Even More Reactions to the Budget explains what passage of the budget does and does not do.
The US military has revealed $65 of funding for a programme to develop a 'brain chip' allowing humans to simply plug into a computer.
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The Institute of International Finance (IIF) Global Debt Monitor 2017 report shows that growth in global debt has slowed over the past several years, particularly in mature economies.
Justin's note: Illinois is dead broke.
Illinois, Maine, Connecticut: the end of the old fiscal year and the failure of numerous states to enter the new one with a budget, means that some of America's most populous states have seen their local governments grind to a halt overnight until so
Court Ruling Sends Illinois Into Financial Abyss
The borrower is the servant of the lender, and through the mechanism of government debt virtually the entire planet has become the servants of the global money changers.
The borrower is the servant of the lender, and through the mechanism of government debt virtually the entire planet has become the servants of the global money changers.
Elon Musk is running one of the biggest alternative energy scams ever. The Technocrat mind does not worry about conflicting facts that disprove their case. If all government subsidies were withdrawn, Musk's entire empire would collapse into bankrup
Elon Musk is running one of the biggest alternative energy scams ever. The Technocrat mind does not worry about conflicting facts that disprove their case. If all government subsidies were withdrawn, Musk's entire empire would collapse into bankrup
Once upon a time governments actually had to be fiscally responsible, spending no more than they took in. Expenditures had to match revenues, in other words; when the money ran out, that was all there was.
Four things are not going to happen in the Imperial City before October 1.
Four things are not going to happen in the Imperial City before October 1.
Four things are not going to happen in the Imperial City before October 1.
Last week we reported that as Illinois, a state which now faces over $15 billion in backlogged bills, struggles over the next two weeks to somehow come up with its first budget in three years ahead of a June 30 fiscal year end, and faces an imminent
The boost in foreign reserves Venezuela enjoyed after Goldman Sachs investment arm picked up $2.8 billion of bonds from the state oil company is almost gone.
Both Powerball and Mega Millions Lotteries Will Pull Out of Illinois on June 30 due to the budget impasse.
Does the European welfare system promote hate by allowing people to avoid learning the lessons of mutual dependence and cooperation that the workplace teaches?
---"Dear Contractor" Letter Telling Firms To Halt Road Work On July 1
Senior Iranian officials have accused the US of supporting the Islamic State terrorist group and effectively forming an alliance with it, noting they have proof.