Hide Yo Cash, Hide Yo Jobs. Texas is Takin’ Everybody’s Business! by Lindsey Bolton In an act of trolling brilliance, Texas Governor, Rick Perry is running radio ads in Maryland inviting Maryland businesses to, “Think Texas.” Urging Maryland businesses to move to Texas, Perry cites the state’s absurd Rain Tax among other impediments to business…
Court decision is a blow to private property rights… A federal judge ruled that Abercrombie & Fitch violated federal anti-employment discrimination guidelines for firing a Muslim employee when she would not remove her headscarf for work. The clothing chain asserted that it was part of their business plan for their employees to have a certain…
Democracy leads to socialism.” -Karl Marx “Socialism is slavery.” -Lord Acton Russia Today host Thom Hartmann invited Libertarian Republic Editor Austin Petersen to debate the merits of San Francisco’s city council voting to push chain store retailers out of the area. Hartmann questioned whether it was valid for citizens to vote if they don’t want…
Who really wants the US to attack Syria and why? Former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan appeared on Neil Cavuto‘s show on Fox Business to discuss the crisis in Syria. The paleo-conservative icon postulated that the pretext for war with Syria is for the US to kickstart a proxy war with Iran. Neoconservative policymakers likely see…
The Bull Within the Bear By Jeff Clark, Editor of BIG GOLD Gold investors will recall there was a surge in bullion buying when the price crashed in mid-April. We saw less of this with the June decline, though global investment demand has still been stronger than what was seen in 2012. What virtually every…
Three Current Themes Precious Metals Investors Need to Consider By Hard Assets Alliance Team By Ed D’Agostino, General Manager, Hard Assets Alliance I recently attended John Mauldin’s Strategic Investor Conference, where I heard some of the world’s brightest minds in finance and economics. From Paul McCully to Mohamed El-Erian, David Rosenberg to Nouriel Roubini,…
Do you even liberty bro? MADISON, Wisc., June 9, 2013 ― Combining many passions into a meaningful, productive career can be a challenge. A man currently conquering that challenge is Austin Petersen, the Director of Production at FreedomWorks. There, he harnesses his artistic talent and libertarian zeal to produce videos, commercials, and event photography. He is…
80 years have passed since the end of the gold standard Russia Today’s Liz Wahl reports on the 80 year anniversary of the ending of the gold standard on the renewed push for commodity backed currency. Critics of the Federal Reserve cite the extreme devaluation of the US dollar that has occurred since the inception…
Central Banks Loading Up on Gold By Hard Assets Alliance Team Central banks have been aggressively purchasing gold since the start of the global economic downturn. In fact, the amount of gold added to central bank reserves in 2012 was the most since 1964. This trend is even more impressive considering that China has…
by Ian Huyett It’s sometimes suggested that libertarian ideas are hazardous because they lack precedent. Functioning decentralized societies, it’s implied, are absent from humanity’s past. Yet throughout recorded history, nations have survived and thrived without the overarching authority that President Obama assures us is necessary for prosperity. My observation is nothing new. Each of the…