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N.Y. Post: Will student-debt racketeering save Biden in November?

New York Post, February 22, 2024 Will student-debt racketeering save Biden in November? by James Bovard President Biden announced Tuesday he will personally cancel $1.2 billion in federal student debt for 153,000 borrowers.  The Supreme Court ruled in June that Biden’s $500 billion student-debt-forgiveness scheme was an illegal abuse of power. But the White House […]

Biden and Forgotten Financial Crimes (Audio)

The Mises Institute posted online an audio version of my recent piece on Biden and Forgotten Financial Crimes.  Thanks to Millian Quinteros for deftly rendering my prose into a vivid narrative. Here is the link  to the audio version.   Here’s the start of the article: Biden and Forgotten Federal Financial Tyranny – James Bovard […]
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N.Y. Post: Biden’s Big Brother teams are now watching what you BUY — hope you pay in cash

New York Post, January 20, 2024 Biden’s Big Brother teams are now watching what you BUY — hope you pay in cash by James Bovard Americans are familiar with the Miranda warning, notifying arrestees that anything they say can be used against them. But the Biden administration secretly created a new tripwire: Anything you purchase […]

Ron Paul: Janet Yellen is a False Prophet of Prosperity

(RPIFederal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen recently predicted that, thanks to the regulations implemented after the 2008 market meltdown, America would not experience another economic crisis “in our lifetimes.” Yellen’s statement should send shivers down our spines, as there are few more reliable signals of an impending recession, or worse, than when so-called “experts” proclaim that we are in an era of unending prosperity.