From “The Disturbing Illusion” “Apparently there’s still a high concentration of eM-ArE-Na (thing “safe and effective”) swimming around in the veins of the clueless. The sycophants are stacked high and tight and everybody’s gearing up to vote harder next go around.“ – Brian
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From “reason.com” You can have low gas prices or war in the Middle East, but not both. Presidents like to claim good economic news as vindication, whether they had anything to do with it or not. Former President Bill Clinton often claims that the economy simply adds more jobs under Democrats than under Republicans, but that analysis
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From “mises.org” Your dollar bought less at the grocery store this year than last. The Federal Reserve added trillions to the money supply. These facts are connected, but understanding how requires grasping one of economics’ deepest puzzles: why does money have value at all when it cannot directly satisfy our needs? You hand a bill
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From “End Of Times Productions” The State of the Union 2026 was a performance. Standing ovations, handshakes, applause lines — and not a single word of truth. So we wrote the one they’d never give. The honest State of the Union. The version that names numbers, names names, and doesn’t care who claps. Rent is
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From “reason.com” It’s been a chaotic few days for President Donald Trump’s tariff policies, but one thing remains very true: Tariffs are not going to offset the federal income tax anytime soon. “As time goes by, I believe the tariffs paid for by foreign countries will, like in the past, substantially replace the modern-day system
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From “mises.org” Can you navigate booms and busts better than the Fed? The new “Federal Reserve Simulator” ($2.99 on Steam) gives you a shot. Gameplay is very simple. It’s turn-based and you only have a few policy levers to adjust. You are given a few data points on GDP, inflation, unemployment, the stock market, “Fed Credibility,”
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From “reason.com” A new poll finds that even white men without college degrees, a key voting constituency for Trump, don’t approve of the president’s handling of the economy. President Donald Trump was reelected, in large part, because voters trusted he would improve the economy. Now public confidence in Trump’s economic plan is slipping. In April
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From “technocracy.news” You have heard me talk about Technocracy’s plan to end debt altogether and establish an asset-based system instead. This parallels Islamic banking that already serves 1.2 billion muslims around the world. This flipalooza will change life as we know it and turn the economic system into a pay-to-view subscription nightmare.⁃ Patrick Wood, Editor.
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From “mises.org” President Donald Trump last week stated that he would ask Congress for a $1.5 trillion defense budget in 2027, an enormous $500 billion increase over 2026’s military budget. The proposed spending increase reflects how much the Trump administration has become focused on pushing new wars, and how much the White House loves to
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