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The Burrito Index: More accurate than the CPI
For years, Federal bureaucrats have manipulated the Consumer Price Index in order to hide the true rate of inflation. Fortunately, for those looking for a measure of inflation that cannot be manipulated, Charles Hugh Smith of the Of Two Minds [...]
The Path to Fed-Exit
I recently proposed that the liberty movement capitalize on Brexit with “Fed-exit”: a campaign to “secede" from the Federal Reserve. Fed-exit could be accomplished with a few simple policy changes.Passing Audit the Fed is a good first step [...]
Federal Reserve Keeps Interest Rates Unchanged
Yesterday the Federal Reserve announced that it was not going to raise the target federal funds rate. Paul-Martin Foss at the Carl Menger Center explains the Fed's decision: This was widely expected, given the dismal jobs report that was [...]
House Oversight Committee Passes Audit the Fed
SPRINGFIELD, Virginia- In response to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s passing of Congressman Thomas Massie’s H.R. 24, “Ron Paul’s Audit the Fed,” Campaign for Liberty President Norm Singleton released the following [...]
Has Your Representative Cosponsored Audit the Fed?
Rep. Thomas Massie's H.R. 24, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2015, currently has 201 cosponsors and momentum continues to build for the bill to hit 218 for the fourth Congress in a row. While a full list of cosponsors is available [...]
Unhappy Anniversary
This month represents 45 years since President Richard Nixon closed the "gold window" thus severing the last link between the US Dollar and gold. The results have been 45 years of economic instability, declining living standards for the lower [...]
Don’t Reform the Fed, Fed-Exit!
Opponents of a central bank should take advantage of the post-Brexit vote revival of secessionist sentiments to promote a secession from central banking, or “Fed-exit.” Ending the Federal Reserve's monopoly on money is the key to restoring [...]
Which Democrats Haven't Cosponsored Audit the Fed?
In the 113th Congress, a majority of House Democrats, 106 to be exact, voted to pass Audit the Fed, H.R. 24. Despite this broad display of bipartisan support in the past, Democrats have been slow to cosponsor Rep. Thomas Massie's H.R. 24, the [...]
WATCH: House Oversight Committee Audit the Fed Markup
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will markup Audit the Fed, H.R. 24, TODAY! Watch the hearing below beginning at 2 pm ET:
How the Fed feeds big government and debt
Donald Trump recently caused controversy by commenting that the federal government would never have to default on the national debt because the Fed can just print more money. Of course, since an increase in the money supply devalues the money, [...]