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Myth-Busters: Trump's Horrific Views on Eminent Domain

If government can just take your property from you, is it really your property to begin with? Eminent domain is legalized theft and President Trump is a big fan. Ron Paul defends individual liberty, property rights, and voluntary interactions on today's Myth-Busters.

Ryancare Failed — What Should Happen Next?

By Tho Bishop

The beltway Republicans are scrambling now that it seems the Obamacare replacement packaged put forward for Paul Ryan and endorsed by Donald Trump can’t get enough support to get through the House. The failure of the American Health Care Act should surprise no one, as it is a piece of legislation that managed to please no one. The Freedom Caucus, made up of the “true believers” of the Tea Party, balked at its similarities to Obamacare, while more moderate members found the...

Okay Google, it is a week later. Do you know the C.I.A.?

By Liberty Report StaffA couple of weeks ago Wikileaks released their first installment of CIA leaks called "Vault 7". After the public learned about how the CIA could exploit internet-connected smart devices and turn them into surveillance microphones, some started to question their Alexa and Google Home devices.

The replies from the devices went viral.

It's now several weeks later, and some people are still checking up on their devices.

See how Google Home responds now to the question "Do you...

Comey Lied? Trump Vindicated? Nobody's Safe From PATRIOT Act

The Mises Institute At 35

By Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

35 years ago, I was worried. I was working at a free-market think tank at a university, and I could see that Austrian economics was becoming less and less influential.

Who would speak for untrammeled freedom and capitalism? Sound money and no central banking? Would economics entirely betray its great advocates of liberty from Menger to Mises, in favor of monsters like Keynes and Marx?

Who would teach students the truth, and inspire them never to give up or give...

Prepare For Blowback Now

By Jacob G. Hornberger

By this time it has become painfully obvious that Donald Trump is going to follow the interventionist road in the Middle East that Republicans and Democrats have been following ever since the Cold War ended in 1989. Like any good conservative, Trump is expanding the size of the military establishment, unleashing the Pentagon to wage its war on ISIS and terrorism, and continuing the bombing, shooting, and assassinations by the military and the CIA in Syria, Yemen, I...

Is North Korea An 'Imminent Threat'?

North Korea continues testing missiles as the United States and South Korea conduct military exercises to practice attacking North Korea. Is North Korea about to launch an attack? Is it capable of being an existential threat to the US? Or is it possible that the threat is only made worse by continued US meddling in the dispute?

This new bubble is even bigger than the subprime fiasco

By Simon Black

In 1988, a bank called Guardian Savings and Loan made financial history by issuing the first ever “subprime” mortgage bond.

The idea was revolutionary.

The bank essentially took all the mortgages they had loaned to borrowers with bad credit, and pooled everything together into a giant bond that they could then sell to other banks and investors.

The idea caught on, and pretty soon, everyone was doing it.

As Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera describe in their excellent history of th...

The Curse of Unlimited Money

By Chris Rossini

We live in an age of government fiat money, meaning it's not real and constitutional money, like gold and silver. Since government, via its central bank, can create as much money as it wants, it can finance whatever it wants....wars, welfare, social engineering, you name it. No price tag is too big.

Imagine having the ability to create (out of thin air) as much money as you'd like. Putting all jokes aside, what would become of you? How would that change you?

We're not talking ab...

House Russia Hearing: Revelations Or More Speculation?