National Blog - page 120
The Burrito Index: More accurate than the CPI
For years, Federal bureaucrats have manipulated the Consumer Price Index in order to hide the true rate of inflation. Fortunately, for those looking for a measure of inflation that cannot be manipulated, Charles Hugh Smith of the Of Two Minds [...]
Campaign for Liberty to Congress: Stop the EPA's "climate change" regulations
Campaign for Liberty has joined a coalition letter in support of HR 3880, legislation clarifying that the Clean Air Act does not give the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) authority to regulate "greenhouse gases." The EPA's greenhouse gas [...]
The Right Lessons from Obamacare's Meltdown
The decision of several major insurance companies to cut their losses and withdraw from the Obamacare exchanges, combined with the failure of 70 percent of Obamacare's health insurance “co-ops, ” will leave one in six Obamacare enrollees with [...]
Economic Growth or Economic Liberty?
Every politician, not mater their party label or ideology promises to promote economic growth. Even many constitutional conservatives and libertarians say that the reason to support tax cuts, deregulation, and repealing economically destructive [...]
Campaign for Liberty Renews Calls To Defund The OECD
Campaign for Liberty has joined a letter calling on Congress to defund the Organization for Economic Development (OECD). In fiscal year 2015 alone, Congress sent $75 million to OECD bureaucrats, who then used that money to advocate for higher [...]
Unhappy Anniversary
This month represents 45 years since President Richard Nixon closed the "gold window" thus severing the last link between the US Dollar and gold. The results have been 45 years of economic instability, declining living standards for the lower [...]
Ron Paul Classic: Seniors' Health Freedom
Obamacare's individual health care mandate may be the most known federal health care mandate, but it is far from the only one. For example, a little-known Clinton-era regulation reacquires senior citizens to enroll in Medicare as a condition of [...]
Liberty At The Movies: War Dogs
"War is about economics" is the observation made in the opening montage of the movie War Dogs. As the quote suggests, despite what you may think from the title, this is not a war picture. The War Dogs of this movie are arms dealers -- [...]
Ron Paul Classic: FEMA Doesn't Help
All of our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Louisiana as they recover from last week's massive flooding. As usually happens after a tragedy like this, Americans are supporting private charitable efforts to help the flood [...]
What Should We Do About Crimea?
Is Crimea about to explode? The mainstream media reports that Russia has amassed troops on the border with Ukraine and may be spoiling for a fight. The Russians claim to have stopped a Ukrainian sabotage team that snuck into Crimea to attack key [...]