Jonathan Newman joins Bob to dissect Paul Krugman’s latest NYT op-ed, in which he derides Ron DeSantis as paranoid for thinking a central bank digital currency (CBDC) could be used to control citizens. Krugman’s op-ed in the New York Times: ...
This week, with camera crews well positioned with the perfect shot to take it all in, federal agents arrested a man for allegedly leaking classified Pentagon documents mostly related to U.S. involvement in the ongoing proxy war in Ukraine. Massachusetts Air ...
The income tax is “undoubtedly the most totalitarian of all taxes.1 —Murray Rothbard At the founding of our country, the framers of our Constitution wisely withheld the right to tax incomes from the federal government. With the recent Revolutionary War ...
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society. Taxes are the price we pay for civilization. I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization. —Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. During tax season, many people try to ...
Mark takes a look at the good news on price inflation and why it is better than reported, but probably short-lived. Other statistics are worsening and, amazingly, even landlords are starting to feel the pain! Be sure to follow Minor Issues ...
[This piece is an excerpt from The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty.] The notion that the world can be replicated and replaced by a simulated reality says a great deal about the beliefs of those who promote the metaverse ...
The stock market remains in an uptrend after modest gains for the week, which occurred amid signs that the economy is slowing down while inflation is cooling. It was a period marked by large intraday moves, however, as investors digested ...
Admittedly, numbers are sexy. Think about how much focus all the economic stats that came out this past week got on all media. Each one was the defining one for the markets and economy, according to the talking heads. CPI ...
It might not be kitchen sink time–you know, when everything has been thrown in–but the market has been tossed a lot of curveballs lately; non-stop increase in rates, bank jitters, recession fears, and earnings fears. And yet here we are, with ...
A number of my recent conversations on The Final Bar have related to the conflict presented in the markets in April 2023. Classic measures of market trend, from the Coppock Curve to the Zweig Breadth Thrust to my own Market ...