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Video: US Debt of $30 Trillion Visualized in Stacks of Physical Cash


This video depicts what the US Debt would look like in stacks of physical cash in following sequence: $100, $10,000, $1 Million, $2 Billion, $1 Trillion, $30 Trillion The faith and value of the US Dollar rests on the Government's ability to repay its debt. "The money in the video has already been spent".

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Javier Milei Delivers Argentina’s First Surplus in Over a Decade—and US Media Is Silent


The revelation that Argentina has done something the US government hasn’t done
in more than two decades—run a budget surplus—seems like a newsworthy event
So why the silence?

Fee.org

Argentines witnessed something amazing last week: the government’s first budget surplus in nearly a dozen years.

The Economy Ministry announced the figures Friday, and the government was $589 million in the black.

Argentina’s surplus comes on the heels of ambitious cuts in federal spending pushed by newly-elected President Javier Milei that included slashing bureaucracy, eliminating government publicity campaigns, reducing transportation subsidies, pausing all monetary transfers to local governments, and devaluing the peso.

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House Passes Bill 221-197 to Block Biden From Using EPA to Ban Gas-Powered Cars and to Mandate EVs


 

CEI.org

In a vote of 221-to-197, the House today passed the Choice in Automobile Retail Sales (CARS) Act (H.R. 4468). Introduced by Reps. Tim Walberg (R-MI) and Andrew Clyde (R-GA) and supported by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the bill would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from finalizing its proposed vehicle emissions rule that would limit what kind of cars Americans can buy. The CARS Act would also amend the Clean Air Act to prohibit the agency from mandating the use of any specific technologies or limiting the “availability of new motor vehicles based on the type of new motor vehicle engine in such new motor vehicles.”

Following passage, Director of CEI’s Center for Energy and Environment Daren Bakst said:

“I applaud the House of Representatives for passing the CARS Act on a bipartisan basis. This commonsense measure would stop the EPA from moving forward with its tailpipe emission rule that would restrict the freedom of Americans to choose the vehicle that best fits their needs. The bill would also help block any similar efforts in the future.  Reps. Walberg and Clyde should be commended for introducing and securing passage of the bill, and I urge their counterparts in the Senate to swiftly pass the measure to ensure the EPA’s attack on consumer choice is killed once and for all.”

Final Vote Results for Roll Call 703 (house.gov)

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Video: Nurse Breaks Down Describing Struggle in Biden’s America Despite Her & Husband ‘Making Good Money’


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"Somebody has to do something to change this because I make good money, he makes good money, we don't live above our means but we live paycheck-to-paycheck."

A nurse and mother’s rant about her financial struggle under Joe Biden’s policies is going viral on social media.

The full-time Pennsylvania critical care nurse and mom-of-two Mackenzie Moan described how her and her husband still lived “paycheck-to-pacheck”  despite “making good money.”

“I feel like my husband and I are doing everything right,” she said as she teared up in a video posted to Tik Tok. “We both have good jobs. I’m a registered nurse, I work full time, he works full time.”

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  •   US Debt of $30 Trillion Visualized in Stacks of Physical Cash
    This video depicts what the US Debt would look like in stacks of physical cash in following sequence: $100, $10,000, $1 Million, $2 Billion, $1 Trillion, $30 Trillion The faith and value of the US Dollar rests on the Government's ability to repay its debt. "The money in the video has already been spent".
  •   THE GREAT TAKING
    The Great Depression was a well-executed plan to seize assets, impoverish the population, and remake society. What comes next is worse.  The Great Taking describes the roadmap to collapse the system, suppress the people, and seize all your assets. And it includes the receipts.
  •   Milton Friedman Free To Choose Series - Volume 5 - "Created Equal"
    "The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both." The desire to have more, to have what those who are better off have, is a powerful emotion. Friedman points out that the most governments can do is provide all citizens with equal opportunity to use their time and abilities as they best see fit, in pursuit of a better life.
  •   Milton Friedman and Phil Donahue On Socialism v. Capitalism
    This is arguably the best explanation of the value of free market capitalism EVER. Pretty much everything everyone does is driven by self-interest and this notion that political self-interest is somehow more noble than economic self-interest has never proven to be true throughout all of human history.
  •   Introduction to the CAFR Swindle - The Biggest Shell Game In Town
    Taxes are no longer necessary. This video exposes a deliberate and massive accounting shell game/swindle that is perpetrated by every government agency from your local school district all the way up to the Federal government.  This is the second Version of this expose' on public finance.Similar
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  •   "The Biggest Shell Game In Town"
    This video was produced
    onJanuary8th 2000 and then was distributed only by VHS tapes. About 8,000 originals were distributed internationally and copy/distribution rights were given whereby about 140,000 1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation copies were circulated. The documentary published to Google video is not the best film quality but it gets the valid information out there and was annotated on the lower script line with 2008 information. This was the first CAFR1 video that got the ball rolling for international disclosure of the CAFR of which has become the biggest shell game played in government finance.
 
 
 
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Video: "Created Equal" - Milton Friedman Free To Choose Series - Volume 5


"The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both." The desire to have more, to have what those who are better off have, is a powerful emotion. Friedman points out that the most governments can do is provide all citizens with equal opportunity to use their time and abilities as they best see fit, in pursuit of a better life.

 

 

 
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Visualization of US Debt and Visualizing What a TRILLION DOLLARS Looks Like


From WTFNoway.com


ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS
$100
- The Most counterfeited money denomination in the world.
Keeps the world moving.

 


TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS
$10,000
- Enough for a great vacation or to buy a used car.
Approximately one year for the average human on earth.
 


 


ONE MILLION DOLLARS
$1.000,000
- Not as big of a pile as you thought, huh?
Still, this is 92 years of work for the average human on earth.

 

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Video: Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World


Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World traces Sowell's journey from humble beginnings to the Hoover Institution, becoming one of this era's greatest economists, political philosophers, and prolific authors. Hosted by Jason Riley, a member of "The Wall Street Journal" editorial board, this one-hour program features insights from Sowell and interviews with his close friends and associates, revealing why the intensely private Thomas Sowell is considered by many to be "one of the greatest minds of the past half-century" and "the smartest person in the room."

 

 
 
 
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Sweden Is Right. the Economy Should be Left Open


By Mike Whitney
Unz.com

Sometimes, the best thing to do, is to do nothing at all. Take Sweden, for example, where the government decided not to shut down the economy, but to take a more thoughtful and balanced approach. Sweden has kept its primary schools, restaurants, shops and gyms open for business even though fewer people are out in public or carrying on as they normally would. At the same time, the government has kept the Swedish people well-informed so they understand the risks the virus poses to their health and the health of others. This is how the Swedes have minimized their chances of getting the infection while avoiding more extreme measures like shelter-in-place which is de facto house arrest.

What the Swedish experiment demonstrates, is that there’s a way to navigate these unprecedented public health challenges without recklessly imposing police state policies and without doing irreparable harm to the economy. And, yes, the results of this experiment are not yet known, but what we do know is that most nations cannot simply print-up trillions of dollars to counter the knock-on effects of bringing the economy to a screeching halt. These countries must dip into their reserves or take out loans from the IMF in order to recover from the lack of production and activity. That means they’re going to face years of slow growth and high unemployment to dig out from the mess their leaders created for them.

And that rule applies to the US too, even though the government has been recklessly printing money to pay the bills. The unforeseen cost to the US will come in the form of long-term unemployment triggered by millions of failed small and mid-sized businesses. That grim scenario is all but certain now. And just as the USG “disappeared” millions of workers from the unemployment rolls following the 2008 Financial Crisis– forcing them to find low-paying, part-time, no-benefits work in the “gig” economy– so too, millions of more working people will fall through the cracks and wind up homeless, jobless and destitute following this crisis. One $1,200 check from Uncle Sam and a few weeks of unemployment compensation is not going to not be enough to prevent the fundamental restructuring of the US labor force that will be impossible to avoid if the economy isn’t restarted pronto.

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Milton Friedman: The Forgotten History of the Godfather of Conservative Libertarianism


From Ammo.com
 

“I would like to say to Milton and Anna [co-author of A Monetary History of the United States, 1867–1960]: Regarding the Great Depression. You’re right, we did it. We’re very sorry. But thanks to you, we won’t do it again.”

Milton Friedman is the Godfather of American conservative libertarianism. He was, at a time when it was deeply unfashionable in official circles, a fierce critic of Keynesian economics. He was a leader of the second generation of libertarian economists to come out of the University of Chicago. Among the people recruited or mentored by him at the university include Thomas Sowell, Gary Becker, Robert Fogel and Robert Lucas, Jr. Friedman often used the jargon and methodology of Keynesians while rejecting their basic premises, coming to very different conclusions than his Keynesian counterparts.

One of his groundbreaking theoretical innovations is the notion of a natural rate of unemployment. Friedman believed that when the unemployment rate was too low, inflation was the result. Using this and his unique interpretation of the Phillips Curve, Friedman predicted “stagflation” long before there was even a word for such things. Friedman likewise broke with Austrian orthodoxy in advocating for small, controlled expansions of the money supply as the proper monetary policy. This became known as “monetarism” – the theory leveraged by the Federal Reserve during the 2008 financial crisis.

As an advisor to both United States President Ronald Reagan and United Kingdom Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, it can be said that, in some ways, Milton Friedman was the forerunner of neoliberal economics on the international scale.

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