Even though the economy is a largely unpredictable and uncontrollable entity, the government has various tools at its disposal which can be used to regulate the booms and busts of the business … Continue reading An Analysis of Presidential Tax Policy

Search company launches new opt-in ad service for non-Google sites and tools that show how it tracks your internet activity And it’s quite a lot of information! You need to be on … Continue reading Google’s My Activity reveals just how much it knows about you

This could get creepy fast…. There are plenty of scenarios in which Facebook casually connecting you with people because your phones were in the same place at the same time could end … Continue reading Facebook is using your phone’s location to suggest new friends—which could be a privacy disaster

A petition calling for a second referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU tops 2.5 million signatures, after the vote to leave. The BBC, the UK’s national broadcaster, gleefully reported, as … Continue reading EU referendum petition signed by more than 2.5m – BBC (FALSE)

Bill 1, An Act to Renew Democracy in Alberta, passed unanimously in third reading late Monday night, and when signed into law will ban donations retroactively to June 15. Would be nice … Continue reading Alberta passes bill banning political donations from corporations and unions

Elite media scorn for anti-establishment movements only vindicates their animating drives. THE DECISION BY UK VOTERS to leave the EU is such a glaring repudiation of the wisdom … Continue reading Brexit is Only the Latest Proof of the Insularity and Failure of Western Establishment Institutions

What are the 4 Reasons? Despite its name, the South China Sea hardly touches the southern half of mainland China. This hotly contested body of water touches the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, … Continue reading 4 Reasons the South China Sea Matters to International Diplomacy and What Trump and Clinton are Saying About It

During this election series, the issue of race and ethnicity has been made a point several times. Whether it was Donald Trump’s comments about Mexicans in his first campaign speech, or whether … Continue reading The United States of Changing Demographics

Printing money is a routine occurrence for governments that control their own currency – and arguably a good idea. Per warren Mosler’s Tweet: Clinton takes on MMT: https://t.co/zgrigGZdwJ — Warren B. Mosler … Continue reading Hillary Clinton Criticizes Donald Trump for One of the Few Things He Is Right About

The Supreme Court just made it still easier for the police to stop and search people without any suspicion of wrongdoing.In a powerful dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor took apart that specious reasoning. … Continue reading Another Hit to the Fourth Amendment

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell set up a vote late on Monday to expand the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s authority to use a secretive surveillance order without a warrant to include … Continue reading Invoking Orlando, Senate Republicans set up vote to expand FBI spying

  “Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?” This is the question that British voters will be asked to answer on the twenty-third … Continue reading Brexit and Why It May Never Happen