Biden’s “free” COVID tests are no such thing
When it’s not busy chasing the phantoms it believes are responsible for inflation, the Biden administration is still wrestling with the coronavirus pandemic. For the last few weeks, the big…
Cryptocurrency as a tool for defending liberty
With the Federal Reserve bracing itself, and to an extent, capital markets, for a belated assault on inflation, more eyes and interest are turning toward cryptocurrencies as a means to…
California could double its taxes
California voters may have the opportunity to vote on a tax hike that backers say will help fund health care coverage for state residents – in other words, a first…
Hospitals seek $25 billion bailout
The nation’s network of hospitals is asking Congress for an additional $25 billion to help defray the costs of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. It turns out hospitals have lost…
Tens of billions more stimulus in the works
The surge in omicron variant cases across the country has some in Congress pondering yet another round of economic stimulus checks – roughly $68 billion worth for “an array of…
IRS warns of bigger delays on tax refunds
Things at the IRS go from bad to worse, as the agency is now warning that its backlog of unprocessed returns from last year stands at more than 8 million…
As interest rates get set to rise, Uncle Sam is unprepared to handle the fallout
With the new year in fiscal recklessness and folly underway, it’s worth recalling that, as the Federal Reserve starts raising interest rates, Uncle Sam’s balance sheet will get even worse….
Paul’s report on government waste in 2021
It’s an open secret that official Washington wastes billions of tax dollars every year…and yet still has the gall to say that such waste is largely fiction. Kentucky Sen. Rand…
The man who warned about inflation is wary of the future
Some contrarian economists on Wall Street are beginning to think inflation may rear up to seven percent for the first part of the year – a pace not seen in…
Paycheck Protection Program was a costly dud
Among the many federal efforts to prop-up the economy in the wake of government-mandated business closures was the Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP. Roughly $800 billion was shoveled into PPP,…
