Marianne Williamson Is Right(ish) About Government Crimes
Williamson has drawn a lot of attention for her new-age spiritual politics but she is the candidate most likely to accidentally stumble onto a point.
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New Residential CEO Mike Nierenberg Reflects On Some of The Changes Involving Residential Mortgages
New Residential Corporation CEO Mike Nierenberg says that many investors have to think outside the box. While thinking outside the box normally means using unconventional methods, investors can think outside the box by developing a new mindset about investment opportunities as banks continue to evolve. Investors have taken note of the different changes in the…
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Why the Minimum Wage Can’t Solve the Poverty Problem
If wages for those at the bottom are high, you may naturally expect low poverty rates. No matter how you define it, higher wages would most logically relieve poverty levels. This is also the argument made by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). An increase in the minimum wage may very well reduce poverty in the…
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Advancement Through Innovation
the CEO of Zitro talks about recent dynamic past of the company and the plans for the future. In this past year, the company had an impressive change, by stepping in the competitive world of slot machines. Zitro Games recently launched Link King and Link Me which are part of Bryke Video Slot product range….
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Is Privacy an Indispensable Right?
The right to privacy was indispensable to our country’s founders. That right is contained or implied throughout first ten amendments in our founding document: The Bill of Rights. Those privacy rights have been upheld and protected throughout our history. Most recently, the Supreme Court ruled in June 2018 that police must get a warrant before seizing sensitive…
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Trump Signs Law Making It Harder for IRS to Seize Money From Americans
By Fred Lucas The Internal Revenue Service seized $446,000 from the bank accounts of brothers Jeffrey, Richard, and Mitch Hirsch in 2012, claiming a “structuring” violation against the owners of Bi-County Distributors Inc. for making multiple bank deposits of less than $10,000. The government never charged them with a crime, nor gave them a hearing to enable…
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Think for Yourself and Question the Benefits of Higher Education
Graduation season has once again concluded, and 1.9 million Americans have left college behind and graduated with a bachelor’s degree. The social and cultural pressures to attend college are high, and the financial expense to do so is just as acute. Major presidential candidates gin up their base by empathetically promising to absolve the self-inflicted…
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Dear Billionaires, the US Treasury Awaits Your Voluntary Contribution
By Anthony Gill On June 24, 2019, nineteen billionaires released a letter to the media entitled “A Call to Action: A Letter in Support of a Wealth Tax.” They urged potential presidential candidates to campaign for and, if elected, implement a new wealth tax that would strengthen America. I hereby offer my own letter in response. Dear…
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Lysander Spooner: The Anarchist Who Single-Handedly Took on the US Post Office
This is a story about a philosopher, entrepreneur, lawyer, economist, abolitionist, anarchist—the list goes on. As his obituary summarizes, “To destroy tyranny, root and branch, was the great object of his life.” Although he is rarely included in mainstream history, Lysander Spooner was an anarchist who didn’t merely preach about his ideas: He lived them….
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Free Things and Unfree People
By Richard M. Salsman As politicians today assert, so loudly and sanctimoniously, that things like food, housing, health care, jobs, childcare, a cleaner-safer environment, transportation, schooling, utilities, and even college should be “free,” or publicly subsidized, almost no one asks why such claims are valid. Are they to be accepted blindly on faith or affirmed by mere…
