The world was stunned when the Cyprus government, in cahoots with European Union’s creepish financiers, decided to tax the banking deposits of its citizens directly to pay for its own bailout. Even government-worshipers in the press were shocked at this
Reprinted from NoFrakkingConsensus.com British Columbia (BC) is a beautiful place – as anyone who has visited Vancouver or Whistler will attest. Unfortunately, it sometimes suffers from an exaggerated view of its own importance. With a population of only 4.5 million
Two years before the real campaigning begins, America’s class of politicos is convinced former First Lady Hillary Clinton will take up the quest for the jackass nomination. After stints as both a U.S. Senator and Secretary of State, Clinton is
Reprinted from IntercollegiateReview.com President Obama has declared this April to be National Financial Capability Month, 2013. America has a 16 trillion dollar national debt and 1 trillion dollar budget deficit, which works out to a $50,000 share per American citizen.
The next Toronto meet is being held at Paupers Pub on April 23rd! That’s three Tuesdays from today. Come join fellow travelers on the road to liberty for a night of interesting conversations, presentations, and some very light inebriation! Same
Public property causes much unneeded stress for society, not the least of which includes newspaper clippings of outraged citizens fuming over youthful vandalism. Older generations tend to see the offspring of their neighbors (never theirs personally) as disobedient to the
Reprinted from The Dollar Vigilante Rest easy, Canadians, for your bank accounts are going to be made as safe as those bank accounts in Cyprus. Just take a look at the Canadian government’s budget plan for 2013, particularly pages 144
Reprinted from LewRockwell.com Benjamin M. Wassell of Silver Creek, New York, a wounded Iraq war veteran, is the first resident of that state to be arrested and face prosecution under its draconian new firearms law. He was arrested during an
Private business unceasingly gets a bum rap in major print. No matter the rise in living standards or technological advances brought about through market forces, there will always be some wiry, neurotic journalist bemoaning over social justice and demanding that
Reprinted from LewRockwell.com William Kristol knows what is wrong with the United States. As he wrote recently in the flagship magazine of the neo-conservatives, the Weekly Standard, the problem with the US is that we seem to have lost our
Reprinted from PeterCEarle.com I’d heard a bit here and there, but yesterday I came across an article definitively alluding to the “sharing economyâ€, a cutesy term for describing the marrying of what are sometimes called gray markets with the now-familiar
Leftists today find themselves in a terrible contradiction. On one hand, they hold to the rigged principle that society needs governing by a domineering state. The commoners are not to be trusted so it takes badges and guns to maintain
Reprinted from NoFrakkingConsensus.com Yesterday was the first UN-declared international Day of Happiness. When tweeting about it Kumi Naidoo, the Executive Director of Greenpeace, couldn’t help himself. He had to cover it in green slime. “Let’s not buy anything on the
 With its latest budget – sorry, “economic action plan†– Canada’s government has taken a morally ominous turn. A provision in the budget proposes to empower the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) with the ability to reward individuals who provide information
Try as he might, JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon will never shake the label of being an overly privileged, money-grubbing banker elite. In business and politics, used to be heralded as a man of impeccable character. President Obama once called
The abundance of “rich-hating” in today’s Western culture has reached disgusting levels. Wealth is no longer seen as a sign of virtue and hard work but as a symbol of exploitation. For all his problems (wishing to “run” a country
As the commentary continues to pour in regarding the new Pope, Francis I, the discussion has been relatively sparse concerning his views on economics – at least about those that relate to the economics of polities and societies. When it
Republished from detlevschlichter.com I, too, was shocked yesterday morning. Not so much by the news that depositors at Cypriot banks would face a haircut, or a ‘levy’ or a ‘tax’, on their deposits as a contribution to yet another Eurozone bailout
The Maryland House of Delegates recently passed a measure to repeal the state’s death penalty. It’s expected Governor Martin O’Malley will sign the bill into law, making Maryland the 18th state to ban capital punishment. As a true blue liberal
The Cypriot people are in an uproar and very rightly so. While the details may yet change, the government of Cyprus is proposing a tax on depositors as part of a bailout package to save the country’s banks. Deposits of
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