By: Stephen Miran – nationalreview.com – August 3, 2023 Federal-government debt that exceeds 100 percent of GDP is wildly irresponsible. THIS week’s downgrade of the United States by Fitch Ratings is both absolutely merited and totally absurd. It’s absurd because ratings are fundamentally about default risk and the United States has no foreign currency debt, and it has a central...

The Heritage Foundation ranks economic freedom across the globe. The United States once ranked No. 4 in the world, but we’ve been in decline. This year, as my new video explains, we’re 25th.  

Among designers showcased by Target in the Pride collection is Abprallen, a British, LGBTQ brand whose other works include Satanic slogans and drawings of skulls and skeletons.

Let me tell you how it will be There’s one for you, nineteen for me ‘Cause I’m the taxman Yeah, I’m the taxman These are the opening lyrics of the 1966 Beatles song “Taxman,” written by George Harrison. Why did he write it? Here’s my hypothesis. Source: We Need Another George Harrison

Traditional political wrangling over the debt ceiling is going nowhere. What about the gimmicks?

President Joe Biden and the media are excited about something new: a Central Bank Digital Currency, or CBDC. It’s a currency like Bitcoin, except controlled by the federal government.

The very term “debt limit” makes a mockery of any kind of responsible budgeting. Each time the government reaches the “limit” it gets raised with the familiar scenarios that include threats of a government shutdown (an idea that increasingly appeals to some conservatives) and the claim that the “full faith and credit” of the U.S. is at stake. We have...

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has unveiled a sweeping package that would raise the nation’s debt limit by $1.5 trillion into next year. The Republican leader announced the bill Wednesday just as President Joe Biden was preparing to deliver a speech in Maryland. The 320-page package imposes a long list of Republican priorities, including new spending caps, work requirements for recipients...

One side of our economic challenges can be solved by controlling inflation, which requires raising interest rates. The other side can be controlled by increasing liquidity in our banks, thereby increasing inflation. Some say the Fed will be choosing between generational inflation and another banking crisis in the days ahead.

Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), whose collapse last week has triggered a global banking crisis, donated over $73 million to the BLM movement.