For the last two quarters, since the Trump administration has discarded 860 regulations, US GDP has grown by 3.0%. Along with 1.8 million jobs being created since Trump took office, …
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Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, gave a passionate rebuttal of Senator Sherrod Brown’s (D-OH) rant in which he accused Republicans of having a need to …
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The United States still lags a number of other developed nations in economic freedom, according to a new report from the Cato Institute, the Fraser Institute in Canada, and more …
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Laissez-faire is an economic philosophy which emphasizes a social system based upon individual rights, including private property rights, and voluntary exchange. The principles underlying this system are responsible for some …
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Days after receiving help from the Russian government in restructuring some of its crushing debt burden, this week the cash-starved government of Venezuela and its state oil company have been …
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The success of the war on cash seems to be accelerating. A new survey by US Bank finds that 47 percent of consumers prefer to use digital apps to make …
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You know you are back in an economic bubble when the mortgage finance industry wants to enable financially inexperienced consumers to obtain mortgages worth tens or hundreds of thousands of …
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An interesting public-relations ploy in the mortgage finance industry is to never refer to rising prices as inflation. Instead, industry representatives always refer to it by the more palatable, and …
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On the campaign trail, candidate Trump often derided the Federal Reserve System for its easy money policy, and its former and current chairmen Ben Bernanke and Janet Yellen for their …
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Once a given economy has been subjected to the nightmare of hyperinflation, one would think everyone who survived would have learned their lesson. But if you made that assumption about …