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Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 25, 2024 Dear Reader, Explains Forbes:  The United States is facing a fiscal crisis of historic proportions. Ballooning deficits, runaway debt service costs, and the risk of a bond market meltdown are pushing the nation toward uncharted territory. Traditional solutions, whether austerity, tax hikes, or controlled inflation, […]

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 22, 2024 Dear Reader, The calendar reads Nov. 22. This day, 61 years ago, the assassin’s bullet sent President John Fitzgerald Kennedy over the rainbow. Bookshelves groan beneath the bulk of books claiming it was a conspiracy. Some argue the Central Intelligence Agency did it. Others argue

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 21, 2024 Dear Reader, Mr. Jason Trennert, he of Strategas Research Partners: Forcefully keeping interest rates low from 2008 through 2021 led to a variety of economic sins and unintended consequences, not the least of which was that the average guy with a savings account received no

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 20, 2024 Dear Reader, “Hey Trump, you want peace in Ukraine? Haha, good luck with that. We’re throwing you this hot potato.” That is the outgoing Biden administration’s message for the incoming Trump administration. Four days ago the Biden administration authorized Ukraine to assault Mother Russia with

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 19, 2024 Dear Reader, The United States economy is largely a “financialized” economy. Financialization: “The increase in size and importance of a country’s financial sector relative to its overall economy.” And as you will see below, the financialized economy is a reverse-Robin Hood economy. It famishes the

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 18, 2024 Dear Reader, Is inflation nearly licked? No, howls Freedom Financial News contributor Jeffrey Tucker: The newest inflation data appears and it is still awful, even worse than before. All told, the U.S. dollar’s purchasing power is down in official data by 22 cents over four

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 15, 2024 Dear Reader, President-elect Trump has tapped Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy upon the shoulder. They will direct the freshly constructed “Department of Government Efficiency.” Department of Government Efficiency? I fall from my chair, laughing at the very notion of it. As well erect a Department

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 14, 2024 Dear Reader, Economist Richard Duncan is credited with fabricating the term “creditism.” Many still insist ours is a capitalist system. Yet Mr. Duncan tells them to have another guess. He argues that the capitalist system went into the grave when the gold standard went into

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Nov 13, 2024 Dear Reader, Invoke the term “deep state” in polite company. You will likely be mocked, scolded and ridiculed for trafficking in “conspiracy theories.” You will be denounced as an agent of Satan — or worse, of Donald John Trump. Yet now… even The Atlantic magazine