Posts Tagged ‘federal reserve’

The Giant Counterfeiter

The modern Federal Reserve is nothing more nor less than a giant counterfeiter. Robert Murphy's latest for the Ludwig von Mises Institute explains why: San Jose State economics professor Jeffrey Rogers Hummel tells all his students that the easiest way to understand the Federal Reserve is to think of it as ...

10 Tenets of Freedom

Fantastic list created by Jacob Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation, detailing 10 tenets of freedom. Excerpts from each tenet, read the entire 2-part article here: Income Taxation How can a person be considered truly free if the state has the power to take whatever percentage of income it wants from ...

Ending the Fed’s Secrecy

Having passed committee, Ron Paul's bill to audit the Federal Reserve has been attached to a larger financial reform bill as an amendment. This is historic and fantastic news! Gary North explains why in a review of those attacking the idea of auditing the Fed. His introduction: Wall Street is an ...

End The Fed Now

There's one reason why the dollar has lost 95% of it's value since 1913, the economy experiences booms and bubbles, and then busts, government has grown, liberty has been lost, and massive, on-going wars have been financed all over the world. That reason is central banking. In the United States, ...

End the Fed, End the Empire

If we are serious about purging America of corruption, then we must stop hacking at the branches and start striking the root. photo credit: fpsurgeon For decades, politicians on both sides of the aisle have lampooned each others’ policies and programs while guarding their own as irreproachable. Democrats have steadily promoted the ...

Robert Kahre vs. The Federal Reserve

Well, the IRS has won. Robert Kahre has been convicted for tax evasion. He hasn't harmed a single person, and even transacted in legal U.S. tender, yet he'll spend the rest of his life in prison. Thank you Federal Reserve! Jacob Hornberger has the latest: Suppose a person owes one hundred ...

Open Letter to Congressman Eric Cantor – Eliminate the Fed

It's the only way to ensure true prosperity in America... Dear Representative Eric Cantor, I’d like to thank you for the invitation you recently sent me for the upcoming job fair you will be hosting. It’s good to see that instead of simply giving someone a job – you’d rather have ...

The Return of America’s Anathema

As most American school children know, one of the chief complaints that the American colonists had against the mother country was that they were taxed without their consent. “Taxation without representation is tyranny,” a phrase often credited to the revolutionary James Otis, became an American maxim. Colonial Americans ...