"The single biggest characteristic of today’s nobility is impunity, and — just as with the privileges associated with titles of nobility in the England our Framers rejected — this privilege extends not only to the titled, but to their retainers, in this case police and other government bureaucrats."
"The three asserted that they had no choice but to use taxpayer money to stabilize the financial institutions. Paulson said, 'I was totally ineffective at having the American people understand that what we were doing was for them and not for Wall Street.'"
The federal government says it’s illegal to grow hemp for commercial purposes. But people in more than 17 states are doing it anyway.
LINCOLN, Neb. (July 18, 2018) – Tomorrow, a Nebraska law goes into effect that puts limitations on the storage and sharing of information collected by Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) by law enforcement in the state. The new law also places significant roadblocks in the way of a federal program using states to help track…
"That the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, BIS, JPMorganChase, and IMF refuse to answer the questions spelled out here shows that they fear that exposure can beat them."
"Global foreign direct investment flows were down 18% in 2017 from the previous year and nearly 24% from its post-recession high in 2015, which the OECD attributed to a surge in financial and corporate restructuring."
"Bringing in more tax revenues doesn’t help if spending goes up even faster. And that has, unfortunately, been the case, as the GOP-controlled Congress has gone on a spending spree."
"If any other government department spent as much and accomplished as little, the populace would be in arms."
"One out of every 14 children in the U.S. has had a parent imprisoned. Today there are over two million children are growing up in U.S. households in which one or more parents are incarcerated."
"For fans of the 2002 Tom Cruise film 'Minority Report,' this will sound like life catching up with art."