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Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez have proposed capping credit card interest rates at 15%
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Bankers are economic vampires who take, take, take, and give nothing in return.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Solar Fannie Mae: Worse Than Subsidizing Fake Energy? Mandating We Buy It
by Seton Motley July 10, 2017Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis popularized the phrase “laboratories of democracy”: “(T)o describe how a ‘state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.’”
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Only a few years ago, for-profit colleges were on a roll.
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Environment/Energy
Taxpayers Funding Al Gore-Affiliated Energy Boondoggle Through Ex-Im Bank
by Emily Zanotti June 11, 2015The Ex-Im bank, which is currently being considered for re-authorization, has been a taxpayer-funded boon to at least one green energy company with friends in high places.
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Since the economic crisis of 2008-2009, the Federal Reserve – America’s central bank – has expanded the money supply in the banking system by over $4 trillion, and has manipulated key interest rates to keep them so artificially low that when adjusted for price inflation, several of them have been actually negative. We should not be surprised if this is setting the stage for another serious economic crisis down the road.
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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
Americans Bothered By The Way The Government Spends Taxes
by Marita Noon April 24, 2013Every year, April 15 is tax day. The morning’s news shows featured last minute tax tips and other tax-related information. A new poll was discussed. When asked: “Thinking about paying…
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Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance in the UK has produced an excellent essay dismantling the British government’s announced plans to cap the interest rates on personal loans. “Loan sharking” strikes…