Congress Ignores Real Debt Ceiling Drama
• http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org by Ron PaulLast week the House passed legislation increasing the debt ceiling. The bill was supported by all but four Republicans.
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Last week the House passed legislation increasing the debt ceiling. The bill was supported by all but four Republicans.
In 2021 I published an article titled 'The Fed's Catch-22 Taper Is A Weapon, Not A Policy Error' in which I outlined the deliberately engineered trap the Federal Reserve has created for the American economy. Specifically, I confronted the issue
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Update (1935ET): In response to today's passing of the House GOP debt ceiling solution, the White House issued a statement claiming that the bill "cuts veterans' health care, education, Meals on Wheels, and public safety, takes away health care fro
The 3-month to 1-month T-Bill spread is the largest in history. Simultaneously we have record or near-record inversions on bellwether spreads.
Several days after Republican lawmakers penned a letter to President Biden demanding that endless military aid to Ukraine be halted, Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Melnik tweeted that Western nations need to do more.
Extremes keep getting more extreme, but for those at the top of the heap, it's all fine. For everyone else slipping down the ladder, all that FINE adds up to Fragile, Insecure, Nonsensical, Expensive
When Congress discusses banning TikTok to keep our children safe from Chinese government spying, what do they really have in mind? And is it a pretext to bring back the military draft?
The recent massive protests in Israel against the Zionist Netanyahu government clearly show there are many Israelis today who do not support their government.
Amid rampant corruption in Kiev and as US troops gather at the Ukrainian border, does the Biden administration have an endgame to the conflict?
A group of three influential senators traveled to Kiev and met with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Accompanied by country music singer Brad Paisley, the lawmakers called for the defeat of Russian President Vladimir Putin and pledged more weapons for U
Another troubling report and why our country is dying...The collapse is speeding up...Hang on.
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We're not living the American dream. We're living a financial nightmare. The U.S. government is funding its existence with a credit card.
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The Biden administration on Tuesday announced a new massive $2.6 billion weapons package for Ukraine that includes HIMARS ammunition, missiles for air defense systems, artillery rounds, and other equipment.
In an interview with ABC News last month, after it was noted that U.S. aid to Ukraine now totals at least $113 billion, President Joe Biden was told that "many" Americans were asking, "How long can we spend like this?"
The 2002 military authorization -- up for a vote today -- is largely symbolic. The 2001 AUMF is what's being used to justify all post-9/11 interventions.
The US Federal Reserve has increased its balance sheet by about $300 billion in the last week during the banking crisis.
In the past week, DoubleLine CEO and founder Jeffrey Gundlach has had a lot to say as the US banking system collapse and bailout enjoins Europe's banking crisis leaving central banks' inflation-fighting plans in question.
Appearing before the Senate Finance Committee Thursday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in no uncertain terms that she does not think a Republican proposal for the U.S. to prioritize its debt payments in the event of a default is viable.
Imagine that for the last 100 years, the federal government's policy was to bail out every business that was in danger of going under.
Politicians say they want to subsidize various industries, but they sabotage themselves by weighing the policies down with rules that have nothing to do with the plans.
US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) announced on Friday that she had introduced a bill on Friday to force an audit of Washington's extensive aid to Ukraine, which has totaled over $100 billion in the year since the conflict began.
Ukraine receives the most military aid from the United States: Since the beginning of the war and as of Jan. 15, 2023, $46.6 billion in financial aid for military purposes has flowed to the country now at war with Russia.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is planning to introduce a bill which forces an audit of the tens of billions of dollars in aid the United States has handed over to Ukraine. The announcement came just on the eve of the Ukraine invasion hitting th
Legendary financial and geopolitical cycle analyst Martin Armstrong said at the end of last year, the U.S. is being set up for a "nightmare fall."
The way Thomas Jefferson handled the national debt should serve as a blueprint for today.
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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has warned that the United States could default on its national debt if Congress and the White House are unable to agree on raising the debt ceiling.