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Keep this timely trading halt in mind the next time you hear some moronic economist blathering on about the so-called “free market” and its very important benefits: Trading was temporarily halted in dozens of regional banks this morning as shares fell by up to 75 percent when the market opened after Joe Biden claimed ‘US […]
This one should amuse the VFM. I sort of lost my patience with the midwits and binary thinkers who think that the correct way to respond to someone saying something original is to quote conventional boilerplate of the sort that anyone who is even half-educated already knows. Anyhow, it should also interest those of an […]
If you needed any more evidence that Americans do not enjoy a free market, look no further: “Attempts to undermine the legitimate currency of this country are simply a unique form of domestic terrorism,” U.S. Attorney Anne Tompkins said. “While these forms of anti-government activities do not involve violence, they are every bit as insidious […]
The Federal Reserve refuses to name names: The Federal Reserve Board of Governors receives daily reports on loans to banks and securities firms, the institution said in response to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Bloomberg News. The Fed refused yesterday to disclose the names of the borrowers and the loans, alleging that […]
Ron Paul explains the obvious to the clueless: In the midst of highly unpopular bailouts of Wall Street, many justifications have been given about why Washington feels the need to act. Some claim that capitalism and the free market are to blame, but we have not had capitalism. If you compare our financial capital to […]
From the Washington Times: A centrally planned immigrant labor market. Buried inside the guest-worker provisions is an extension of the Davis-Bacon Act, which mandates “prevailing wages” to workers in specific industries contracted by the federal government. The bill would extend “prevailing wage” laws to include immigrant workers in all private sector jobs, even those not […]
In related news, archeologists today discovered a stone tablet containing the Lex Concido Rex, which apparently codified the imperial laws banning species extinction proclaimed by one Dens Ingens, a dinosaur emperor from the Gwaag Dynasty: Stock market speculators will not be allowed to profit from the falling share prices of banks and insurance companies, financial […]
The end of the age of free money has finally brought about the always-inevitable demise of the wicked e-thots of Jezebel: Jezebel, a feminist US news site, was shut down by its owners on Thursday, with 23 people laid off and no plans for the outlet to resume publication. G/O Media, which owns Jezebel and […]
It would appear that either the intelligence services of the world have all the information they need now, or, more likely, they’ve decided that all those pictures of people’s pets and lunches simply isn’t worth the expense to obtain them and effort to analyze them. Facebook and Instagram users have blasted the launch of a […]
It was always fake, gay, and propped up by free money handed out to the ticket-takers. And now that the free money flow has been shut off, the propped-up organizations are failing one after another. The American-Canadian digital media and broadcasting company Vice is preparing to file for bankruptcy, New York Times has reported citing […]