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Are Recessions Inevitable?
Stocks fell last week following news that the yield curve on Treasury notes had inverted. This means that a short-term Treasury note was paying higher interest rates than long-term Treasury note. An inverted yield curve is widely seen as a sign [...]
Will Persian Gulf 'Tanker War' Become a Shooting War?
The UK got a taste of its own medicine this week as Iran seized a British tanker, the Stena Impero, just two weeks after UK Royal Marines seized a tanker near Gibraltar carrying two million barrels of Iranian oil. As could be predicted, the US [...]
Ron Paul and Norman Singleton on Rand Paul’s reintroduction of Audit the Fed
Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul and President Norm Singleton issued the following statements regarding Senator Rand Paul’s reintroduction of Audit the Fed in the Senate. The bill number is S. 148. Ron Paul — "Rand continues to be [...]
This Week in Congress Update
Yesterday, the cloture motion on S. 1, the bill imposing new sanctions on supporters of the Syrian government and authorizing state and local governments to refuse to do business with proponents of the “boycott, sanctions, and divestment” [...]
Ron Paul and Norm Singleton Praise Reintroduction of Audit the Fed
Campaign for Liberty Chairman Ron Paul and President Norm Singleton issued the following statements regarding Rep. Thomas Massie’s introduction of Audit the Fed (H.R. 24) today. Ron Paul — "Representative Thomas Massie’s continued [...]
Congress Spending Surge is National Suicide
With a national debt approaching $23 trillion and a trillion dollar deficit for this year alone, Congress last week decided to double down on suicidal spending, passing a two year budget that has the United States careening toward catastrophe. [...]
Making headway against the banksters
C4L staff have been pounding the pavement on Capitol Hill in recent weeks, visiting and calling offices, and mobilizing grassroots activists in targeted districts in support of Audit the Fed. In fact, we've visited 192 offices in just the past [...]
Update on Congress
Last week, the House passed H.R. 268, a $12.1 billion disaster relief bill. This is a $4 billion increase from the disaster aid bill that was unresolved at the end of the last Congress. The bill provides aid to those affected by last year’s [...]
This Week in Congress
The Senate will consider some legislation that was introduced last week and “Rule 24” to enable it to come to the floor without having to go through Committee. The first bill the Senate plans to vote on is S. 1. The bill reauthorizes aid to [...]
This Week in Congress
The 116th Congress convenes tomorrow. The main order of business will be electing a new House Speaker and passing the rules package for the new Congress. One good thing in the rules package is that it changes the “three-day” rule to 72 hours [...]