As we prepare to note the 249th anniversary of our country, getting ready for the great celebration next year of America's 250th, Gallup serves up sobering data. Per polling just released by Gallup, o...
07.02.2025 Townhall.com and 4 sitesIf you seek an example of history repeating itself, look no further than Donald Trump's much-hyped 'One, Big, Beautiful Bill', a monstrously rambunctious tax, spending and policy measure, which promis...
06.29.2025 Indiatimes.comOPINION: In 1924, G. K. Chesterton wrote, “Why is it that for the last two or three centuries, the educated have been generally wrong and the uneducated relatively right? … What the educated man has g...
06.29.2025 Washingtontimes.comThe intellectual-political discussion of the so-called abundance movement typically is described as a debate taking place almost entirely on the left. But in fact many of its major themes were being d...
07.01.2025 Niskanencenter.orgSource: Cobden Centre by Elias Sanchez “Throughout history, policymakers have repeatedly fallen prey to what Friedrich Hayek termed the fatal conceit — the belief that social and economic orders can be consciously designed and imposed from above. As of March 2025, former Bolivian Vice President and enduring neo-Marxist intellectual Álvaro García Linera has weighed in on Bolivia’s deepening hydrocarbons and dollar crisis. Chronic shortages of diesel and petrol, accompanied by days-long queues, ar...
07.01.2025 News.rationalreview.comCan We Remake Finance? Can We Remake Finance? We have witnessed the destructive effects of financialization. Can the millions held in bank deposits, corporate equities, and bonds be used instead to pr...
07.02.2025 Dissentmagazine.orgIn March 2020, amid the financial chaos of the early pandemic, the Federal Reserve quietly scrapped one of the cornerstones of modern banking: fractional reserve requirements. With little fanfare, the...
07.01.2025 Intpolicydigest.orgA decade ago, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) became the face of socialism in the United States. A couple of years later, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) launched the AOC brand, which was another iter...
06.29.2025 Libertynation.com[Usama Malik wrote this article shortly after the 2024 US presidential election. Although it does not reflect post-inauguration events, Fair Observer believes the analysis remains insightful and relev...
06.27.2025 Fairobserver.comI have found no data on the geographical distribution of civil servants in Greece, except that 85% work for the central government departments and only 15% in local government, but I am willing to bet that the majority are in Athens. Of course, it ma...
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