By ALG News – Yesterday, the U.S. Senate defeated two amendments to the Dodd financial takeover bill that would have begun to address the root, government causes of the financial crisis that began in 2007 when the housing bubble popped. It is now up to […]

By Adam Bitely – Severe inflation always begins at the most basic level. From food prices to base commodities, consumers will notice prices rising quickly when severe inflationary periods are upon them. So that’s why a recent Bureau of Labor Statistics report on the Producer […]

By Bill Wilson – On February 24th, 2010, when asked if the Federal Reserve was planning to bail out Greece, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke testified to the House Financial Services Committee , “we have no plans whatsoever to be involved in any foreign bailouts or anything of that sort.” Now we know, he lied. As reported by the Wall Street Journal , “the U.S. Federal […]

By Adam Bitely – As noted by Rob Bluey at The Foundry and Michelle Malkin , research from Americans for Limited Government (the parent organization of this website) has uncovered that Capitol Hill staffers that transitioned to the Department of Labor with Hilda Solis have struck it rich. Salary bumps for the […]

By ALG News – Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson today condemned Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke for “lying about the Fed participating in a bailout of Europe in response to the rapidly escalating sovereign debt crisis,” and called for a Congressional investigation into the Fed, […]

Ludwig von Mises discusses the difference between Capitalism and Socialism in terms we can all understand and commiunicate to others: A society that chooses between capitalism and socialism does not choose between two social systems; it chooses between social cooperation and the disintegration of society. […]

By Robert Romano – Government just needs a little more power, it says. Proponents of unlimited bailouts are once again blaming the management of bailouts for their inherent failures to mitigate the crises they profess to avert. Last week, the EU Monetary Affairs Chief Olli Rehn blamed the financial crisis on the “failure” of the federal government to save Lehman Brothers from bankruptcy , and used the example to justify an […]

By Andrius Vaitekunas Inside of the Dodd Financial Takeover Bill there is a little known provision that allows the government to monitor all financial transactions :

By Adam Bitely – As we have been saying here all week, the Democrats intend to monitor personal financial transactions if the Chris Dodd Financial Takeover Bill passed. According to CNS News : If banks don’t comply, they can be subpoenaed by the director of the Financial Stability Council. Democrats saw no problem […]

From the always wise, Ludwig von Mises, on Capitalism: Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of plenty upon the common man. It has raised the average standard of living to […]