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At a time when the appeal of and demands for a new “democratic” socialism seem to have caught the imagination of many among the young.

Gold buying rose spectacularly in 2018 led by the world’s central banks, which increased their physical purchases by 651.5 tonnes.

The recent gyrations in the stock market and the uncertainties surrounding American trade policies with China and other parts of the world have raised the question of when the next recession will come.

The stock market has been soaring, unemployment is low, and there is some improvement in wages and corporate earnings, though significantly less than from other recession recoveries.

In the middle of July 2018, President Donald Trump said in an interview that he was “not happy” with the Federal Reserve nudging up interest rates and threatening economic growth in the United States

Truth in Accounting’s latest “Financial State of the States” rankings placed Illinois in 49th place—barely beating out New Jersey. The Prairie State was labeled a “Sinkhole State” and earned a “financial grade” of “F.”

Several major central banks around the world, including the Federal Reserve in the United States, have set a goal of two percent price inflation. The problem is, what central bankers are targeting is a phantom that does not exist.

What we now know to have been one of the worst economic and financial crises of the post-World War II period began about ten years ago in 2007.

Have you wondered why stocks like Apple, Microsoft and Google continue to make big gains in the U.S. indexes such as the Dow-Jones Industrials? These are the kind of big, successful companies that central banks favor.

For a century now, American law has recognized the freedom of the parties to a contract to agree to submit disputes to arbitration.

By inserting itself into the operations of businesses large and small, government makes itself a factor business owners have to consider when making virtually all their decisions.

For years the Federal Reserve and many other central banks around the world have declared that a key element of monetary policy is the targeting of a two percent rate of annual price inflation.

The federal government’s war against a popular digital asset exchange company offers a lesson in why consumers and business owners should have more freedom to pay as they wish.