Showing posts with label banking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label banking. Show all posts
Jeffrey Rogers Hummel: How The Fed Got Huge

IRS Horror Story Makes Past Scandals Pale In Comparison

Labels:
asset forfeiture,
banking,
civil forfeiture,
crime,
federal,
government,
IRS,
justice,
theft
James Gattuso & Diane Katz: 10 Worst Regulations Of 2014

Labels:
banking,
censorship,
EPA,
free speech,
government,
Internet,
regulation,
restrictions,
taxicab
Congress Poised To Order Audit Of Federal Reserve

Why The Founders Didn’t Give Us A Democracy

Matt Welch: Kiss Your Financial Privacy Goodbye
Politicians destroy right to confidential banking. It started, as so many bad things do, with Richard Nixon. In 1970, in the midst of a national panic over crime and illegal drugs, the man whose presidency would later become synonymous with official criminality signed the Bank Secrecy Act, which compelled all U.S. financial institutions ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: Predatory Journalism

The 5 Most Troubling Things in Congress’ New Spending Bill

Veronique de Rugy: The Crony Capitalism Machine
The Export-Import Bank is inefficient and immoral. Congress will soon debate the fate of the U.S. Export-Import
Bank, an outfit that doles out money to favored corporations and
foreign governments. For 80 years, the bank and the crony
capitalists it supports have defeated every attempt to shut it
down. But that may slowly be changing. ... MORE
Labels:
banking,
crony capitalism,
cronyism,
exports,
government,
imports,
politics,
special interest
Andrew Napolitano: A Dog Whistle To The Left

Wendy McElroy: Is The NSA Changing Bank Accounts?
The capability is clearly there. The question would seem absurd if it were not for a 308-page report on the NSA that
was released on December 12 by an Official White House Panel.
Recommendation 31, “Institutional Measures for Cyberspace,” on page 37
and repeated on page 221 reads: (1) Governments should not use surveillance to steal ... MORE
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banking,
government,
NSA,
privacy,
secrecy,
snooping,
spying,
surveillance,
warrantless search
Imagine If President Obama Ran Disneyworld
by Jeffrey Dorfman. The federal government is moving closer and closer to taking control of the entire health care sector. It already controls close to half of all health care transactions and it might reach two-thirds soon. The federal government has also
expanded its role regulating and controlling the food industry, the
automobile ... MORE
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