Authored by Hunter Lewis via The Mises Institute,
Noah Smith, writing in Bloomberg, says that middle class America has indeed been fleeced by our national economic policies. We agree. But which policies have been responsible?
Smith mentions and immediately dismisses trade, immigration, economic regulation, and welfare policies.
Authored by Pater Tenebrarum via Acting-Man.com,
Counterintuitive Moves
Something odd happened late in the day in Wednesday’s trading session, which prompted a number of people to mail in comments or ask a question or two. Since we have discussed this issue previously, we decided this was a good opportunity to briefly elaborate on the topic again in these pages.
More Fake News From Washington
this time it is about employment
Paul Craig Roberts
The US government continues to lie about everything, not just Russia, Syria, Iran, and China. The US government is incapable of telling the truth about something as straightforward as employment. According to the government, March produced only 98,000 new payroll jobs, an insufficient amount to reduce unemployment, but the unemployment rate fell from 4.7 to 4.5 percent.
Confused? Don't be...
Source: KarlRemarks.com
The biggest trend that continues “behind the scenes” is the War on Cash.
Anyone who believed that the political shift towards nationalism would somehow result in the elites giving up their Central Planning schemes is mistaken.
Consider Europe…
Recently, the European Union announced it would start researching whether or not to put an upper limit on what cash can be used for… with the idea of implementing this policy in 2018.