US Expropriates, Imprisons Bitcoin Trader For Carrying Cash in a Trader Joe’s Sack

"The most telling thing about the entrapment prosecution is the sentencing memo, which blatantly lays out the feds' fear and contempt for any attempt to keep a financial transaction private, whether or not anything inherently illegal is happening."

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Feds secretly rolling out real estate cash reporting rules to more states

"Officials no longer want to publicize what kind of transactions fall under the reporting requirement. They worry that making too much information public will give money launderers a road map to stay off the radar of regulators."

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Question the ‘National-Defense’ Exception to Free Trade

"Are we to believe that the same institution that so recklessly hawks military weaponry to hostile actors is so sincerely concerned with protecting America’s national-defense capabilities that we can trust it to restrict, for reasons of national security, our freedom to trade?"

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Washing Machine Tariffs Started the Trade War. Result?

"Thank the Trump tariffs on imported washing machines, washing machine parts, steel, and aluminum for the largest three-month price increase—16.4% from February to May this year—in the 40-year history of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) series for Major Appliances: Laundry Equipment."

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