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08/01/2017 / By Jayson Veley

The WAR on CASH is actually a war on liberty and privacy

There is a growing effort among the nation’s political elites and top government officials to transform America into a cashless society (Related: The EU is the global blueprint for a cashless society). Just like virtually everything else promoted by the federal government, such as more spending on the welfare state, universal healthcare, and the implementation […]

04/04/2017 / By News Editors

Baltimore mayor supported $15 minimum wage until she learned what it would do to city’s economy

During the 2016 campaign, Catherine Pugh was one of dozens of Democratic politicians calling for the implementation of a $15 per hour minimum wage. (Article by Eric Bohem from reason.com ) Since being elected mayor of Baltimore in November, though, Pugh has changed her mind about the merits of forcing employers to pay such a high hourly rate. Last week, […]

03/08/2017 / By News Editors

Trump’s first full month in office brings massive employment boom: over 295,000 new jobs in February

New job figures from ADP beat economists’ estimates by more than 100,000 Official February numbers will be out on Friday and are expected to lower the unemployment rate to 4.7 per cent Trump tweeted that January and February ‘were the strongest consecutive months for hiring since August and September 2015’ That language came from a […]

02/21/2017 / By JD Heyes

In TRUMP we trust: Most are confident the economy will be fixed by a billionaire businessman

Donald J. Trump was criticized early and often during his presidential campaign for being a political neophyte with no governing experience. His retort most often was that career politicians are the ones who got us into many of our current messes. That included a net loss of millions of jobs that were shipped out of […]

02/03/2017 / By JD Heyes

Must-see: Simple chart reveals how Americans have spent their money over the last 75 years

Most of us know that consumer spending makes up something like 70 percent of our $17 trillion annual economy, but have you ever really wondered what most Americans spend their money on? A new chart put together by HowMuch.net (above) shows a breakdown of spending into a dozen categories, in this order: Reading; Alcohol; Tobacco; […]

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