6 Shocking Revelations About Wall Street’s “Secret Government”

Top officials willfully concealed the true extent of the 2008-’09 bailouts from Congress and the public. We now have concrete evidence that Wall Street and Washington are running a secret ...

14 Reasons Why We Should Nationalize The Federal Reserve

One of the most important steps that we could take to bring prosperity back to America would be to nationalize the Federal Reserve.  Doing so would allow the federal government ...

Actual Unemployment Rate Is at ‘Great Depression Levels’

U.S. unemployment rates may officially be hovering around 9 percent but in reality, they’re up near the 20 percent levels around the time of the Great Depression, maybe even higher, ...

Ron Paul: “We Will Default Because The Debt Is Unsustainable”

“When a country is indebted to the degree that we’re indebted, the country always defaults. We will default because the debt is unsustainable,” Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) said on the ...

National debt: Whom Does the U.S Really Owe?

The US is indebted mainly to …well.. Americans. Still, foreigners hold about 47 percent of the national debt, with China and Japan owning the biggest chunks, but not the majority. ...

Washington in a Flash: Ben Bernanke Heads to the Hill

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is due to deliver the Semiannual Monetary Policy Report to Congress today before the House Financial Services Committee. What will he say about unemployment, if ...

Fed’s Massive Stimulus Had Little Impact: Greenspan

The Federal Reserve’s massive stimulus program had little impact on the U.S. economy besides weakening the dollar and helping U.S. exports, Federal Reserve Governor Alan Greenspan told CNBC Thursday. In ...

Something Just Happened: Big-Time Drop In The Dollar

Financial market weirdness had to ruin a perfectly quiet start to Wednesday, look at this 5 minute drop, right off a cliff! Notably, there was just a major drop in ...

20 Questions To Ask Anyone Foolish Enough To Believe The Economic Crisis Is Over

If you listen to Ben Bernanke, Barack Obama and the mainstream media long enough, and if you didn’t know any better, you might be tempted to think that the economic ...

The Lehman Brothers Plan

Mises Daily:   People often ask me, “What do you think the government should do instead of QE inflation?” My stock answer is that the government should not try to fight ...