David John Marotta and Megan Russell co-author a syndicated financial column featured in several newspapers across the country.
Unlike the markets, members of the Fed are able to make decisions that are in exactly the wrong direction if they don’t limit themselves with a rules-based system.
With as little as $25 you can begin loaning money to developing world entrepreneurs.
Without taxes, you could leave your job every day at 2:34 p.m
The U.S. dollar was first regulated by the Coinage Act of 1792 and prescribed as 371.25 grains of pure silver. The eagle, worth $10, was 247.5 grains of gold. One cent, worth a hundredth of a dollar, was 24 grains … Read More
Members of the Federal Reserve openly admit it is not a federal agency.
Quantitative easing is a sneaky way to make everyone dealing in U.S. dollars pay off the U.S. debt.
Even as recently as 2007, banks were paying 4% interest. Now you have to go to the hundredth decimal before you find your interest rate.
In its simplest form, the government prints money and uses the newly printed currency to fund government spending.
To comply, most firms must archive and report massive amounts of information. Here are five of the more interesting regulations.
The president’s hope to restrict the plans should actually make owners more interested in creating one.
Which part of the conservative party appeals best to you: promoting the welfare of big business, legislating morality or advocating personal freedom and responsibility?
Social Security withdrawals have enslaved workers to depend on government largess when they could have been independently wealthy.
The economics of the job market are complicated, and an executive order can’t grant America a higher wage.
Willful violations of ERISA legislation carry criminal penalties of up to a year in prison for the plan sponsor and a fine of up to $100,000 for the corporation.
Both authors claimed there were errors in our article all the while agreeing with our assessment of the unemployment numbers.
Economic freedom enriches society, lifts the poor out of poverty and respects the agency and dignity of human choice.
The stock market can occasionally benefit from the misery index.
Whenever the IRS challenges you, the burden of producing evidence that your claims are true rests entirely with you.
In addition to learning how a viral story can get many of the facts wrong, another more important lesson can be learned from this experience.
Here’s to a better 2014!
This holiday season, remember to cherish the important values of life.
Prior to the Obama administration, only three espionage cases had ever been brought.
“What is remarkable is that is actually acknowledging it is illegal.”
No volume of abuse seems sufficient to rouse public opinion.
If the TSA were a private security firm, they would have been fired by now.
This WHO 2000 Statistical Report was the study used to justify and promote the Affordable Care Act. Here are seven facts about this so-called research lurking behind politicians’ claims that our health care system is in crisis
A change in attitude is needed for the poor to develop a wealth-generating mindset.
Your opinions depend on your view of humanity.
Even the negative or inconsequential effects of welfare often fail to convinced some people that a new system of assistance is necessary.
Blaming the 85% with 100% of the wealth for the poverty of the remaining 15% is unreasonable. The two are unrelated.
The partisan deadlock offers us a novel opportunity to reach consensus.
The video “Wealth Inequality in America” is not only misleading, but the research methods of its underlying study are laughable.
Fun first. Freedom first. Innovation first. Financial goals first. But not safety. No one says, “That looks safe; I wonder if it is fun.”
“They don’t deserve it!” is the most common complaint. And in most cases it’s true
When I work my 9 to 5 job and earn a paycheck, I receive a paper certificate I can trade in for the real reward of my labor. But why do investors get a reward?
A recent letter from a reader expressed the claim that there is no such thing as natural rights. Could he be right?
Three part time employees equals two full time employees while avoiding $4,000 in annual fines.
The Affordable Care Act encourages everyone to get health care insurance by punishing those who don’t. Proponents of Obamacare justify this saying that health care is a human right. But is it?
Corporations go bankrupt for a wide variety of reasons, but there’s only one reason for municipalities.
Money is not the source of the corruption in Congress.
We need to protect more of our natural rights by enumerating them.
If there isn’t a strong enough outcry, these practices will become institutionalized.
Five principles from analyzing the last decade of returns.
Some of the Confederate edits to the Constitution would have helped prevent a lot of the federal mischief we’ve experienced.
Many Americans do not fully understand the causes of the Civil War.
It’s hard to believe they would both protest a tariff-created monopoly at the Boston Tea Party and then create one at the first congress.
Don’t hesitate to take advantage of this tax code oddity.
Without public accountability, people are rightly suspicious that even the legitimate operations of government are corrupt.
Fearful of monetary or societal failure, many hope that owning gold will bring them peace of mind.
Compliance isn’t just a technical burden. It is a threat of legal liability. The bill allows state tax audits by any state against any online vendor.