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Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Feb 26, 2025 Dear Reader, Salon: “DOGE’s mass layoffs spark fears of broader economic ripple effect.” The devil Trump and demon Musk are visiting evil upon the nation’s saintly public servants. Under satanic onslaught, some 85,000 worthies of the federal labor force confront unemployment — we are informed. […]

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Feb 25, 2025 Dear Reader, The president intends to accompany Mr. Musk to the United States Army installation at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Fort Knox is where doddering old Uncle Samuel allegedly stashes half his gold — some 4,582 metric tons, by rights. And the two gentlemen are out

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Feb 24, 2025 Dear Reader, “Are we heading toward a constitutional crisis?,” asks CBS News. “Is the US government facing a constitutional crisis?,” wonders USA Today. The Atlantic claims it knows the answer — and it ranges beyond all questioning: ‘“Constitutional crisis’ is an understatement.” The president’s critics

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Feb 21, 2025 Dear Reader, I notice the United States Secretary of Defense — Hegseth — proposes an annual 8% scissoring of the military budget. The 2024 defense budget ran to $814.4 billion. An 8% limitation would hand back $67.3 billion to the besieged American taxpayer this fiscal

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Feb 20, 2025 Dear Reader, Freshly crowned United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “Within the next 12 months, we are going to monetize the asset side of the U.S. balance sheet.” What on Earth does he mean? For answers we must first examine the profit and loss statements

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Feb 19, 2025 Dear Reader, “This might be the biggest fraud in history,” asserts Mr. Musk. History is to its neck with frauds. Only a fraud of truly stupendous dimensions could overtop them all. This fraud — evidently — does. To which fraud does the South African native

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Feb 18, 2025 Dear Reader, “Voters were right about the economy. The data was wrong.” Here you have the studied conclusion of Mr. Eugene Ludwig. Mr. Ludwig captains the eponymous Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity. From 1993-1998 he bore the title, United States Comptroller of the Currency.

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Feb 17, 2025 Dear Reader, Today is President’s Day. In token of this high and exalted day, we reflect upon the United States presidency. Historians heap vast praise upon presidents of energy and of action (the sitting president excepted). In brief, upon presidents who expand their own powers…

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Feb 13, 2025 Dear Reader, Yesterday we breached the holy temple of modern central banking… and dynamited the false foundations that hold the edifice upright. We revealed that monetary policy itself is a vast fiction. There is simply no money in it. We likewise revealed that central banks

Brian Maher Contributor, Freedom Financial News Posted Feb 12, 2025 Dear Reader, The Hon. Jerome H. Powell appeared yesterday before the United States Senate Banking Committee. There he delivered the semiannual Monetary Policy Report to the Congress… in fulfillment of his obligations under the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Act of 1978. A Federal Reserve chairman takes