This week President Trump revealed his final five candidates for Federal Reserve chair. Disappointingly, but not surprisingly, all five have strong ties to the financial and political establishment. The leading candidates are former Federal Reserve governor and Morgan Stanley banker Kevin Warsh and current Fed governor, former investment banker,
Last Thursday, congressional Republicans unveiled their tax reform legislation. On the same day, President Trump nominated current Federal Reserve Board Governor Jerome Powell to succeed Janet Yellen as Federal Reserve chair. While the tax plan dominated the headlines, the Powell appointment will have much greater long-term impact. Federal Reserve
Shutting down the Department of Education and returning control of the education dollar to the American people is the key to improving education. The best way to put the people in charge of education is by shutting down all unconstitutional bureaucracies, repealing the Sixteenth Amendment, and ending the Federal Reserve’s money monopoly. Since
Last week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. The case stems from the refusal of Masterpiece Cakeshop, a bakery, to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple. The bakery was found guilty of a civil rights violation and ordered to stop refusing to bake and design cakes
The descent of US/North Korea “crisis” to the level of schoolyard taunts should be remembered as one of the most bizarre, dangerous, and disgraceful chapters in US foreign policy history. President Trump, who holds the lives of millions of Koreans and Americans in his hands, has taken to calling the North Korean dictator “rocket man on a suicide
Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel famously counseled politicians to never let a crisis go to waste. Sadly, this week President Trump and congressional leaders of both parties showed that they have taken this advice to heart when they attached a debt ceiling increase and an extension of government spending to the over 15 billion
El presidente Trump anunció la semana pasada que iba a devolver a Corea del Norte a la lista de EEUU de “estados patrocinadores del terrorismo” después de haber estado fuera de dicha lista durante los últimos nueve años. Los estadounidenses pueden preguntarse qué dramático acontecimiento ha llevado al presidente de EEUU a volver a señalar a Corea
El esperado voto de esta semana de la Cámara de Representantes para añadir más sanciones a Rusia, Irán y Corea del Norte es un buen ejemplo de la poca sensatez de la política exterior de EEUU. Las sanciones se han convertido en una especie de acción automática que lleva a cabo el gobierno de EEUU cuando sencillamente no sabe qué más hacer. No
[Extraído de The Austrian 3, nº 3 (2017): 4-6] Al viajar por el país dando discursos en universidades, he advertido que muy pocos jóvenes quieren la guerra. De hecho, yo diría que el 90% de la gente con la que estoy en contacto se opone a nuevas guerras. Así que la pregunta es: Si tan poca gente parece querer la guerra, ¿por qué seguimos
“Me encanta Wikileaks”, dijo el candidato Donald Trump el 10 de octubre en la campaña electoral. Elogió a la organización por informar sobre el lado más oscuro de la campaña de Hillary Clinton. Fue información probablemente filtrada por un informante desde adentro de la campaña de Clinton a Wikileaks. En aquel entonces alabó a Wikileaks por
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