Politics

Before he was quietly advised last year by his superior that the time to "quit" has finally come after a career filled with gaffe after gaffe, former US Attorney General Eric Holder was best known for not prosecuting big banks due to his concern they were "Too Big To Prosecute", clearly ignoring the optics (and reality) that this would also makes it seem that when it comes to breaking the law, banks are more powerful than the United States itself.

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

When a reporter for the United States Army Training and Doctrine Command interviewed Frank Zappa for the commands news syndicate, the story was held by a superior who demanded that Zappa – who had been rather hard on the army – answer one more question: just who does he think will defend the country without the army?

 

Via The Mises Institute,

From The Quotable Mises, Ludwig von Mises’s best nine quotes on gold and the gold standard:

1. Every nation, whether rich or poor, powerful or feeble, can at any hour once again adopt the gold standard.

Source: Omnipotent Government

Over the past several days, things in Venezuela have not only taken a palpable turn for the worse, but now seem to be moving at an accelerating pace toward the inevitable endgame for the Maduro regime and whatever happens next.

If the US presidential election has devolved into a comical soundbite free-for-fall, then the UK has its hands full with Brexit, and how the two opposing camps are approaching the UK's vote to exit the Eurozone on June 23.