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In response to court rulings blocking key elements of the federal government's new student loan repayment program, the Biden administration will be giving about 3 million borrowers a reprieve from their monthly payments.
Interest on the national debt is rapidly becoming the biggest single category of spending by the U.S. government. As of May 2024, the amount of money spent to pay interest owed to the federal government's creditors surpasses the annual amount it sp
Corruption exists everywhere, but in America, how corrupt have the federal government and the agencies that run our country become? Today, we meet with First Amendment attorney Benjamin Barr to stroll around Washington, D.C., to better understand gov
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According to the latest data from the FDIC, the U.S. banking system is sitting on $517 billion in unrealized losses due to deteriorating bond portfolios.
American Compass, a think tank promoting a conservatism lacking even a rhetorical commitment to free markets, recently called for Republicans to support tax increases.
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"Catherine Austin Fitts explains the Commonlaw Right of Offset---what you have when you owe someone money, who also owes you money--you simply discharge your debt, against the debt the other person owes you...
Ever since it started growing in earnest following the abandoning of the 'Bretton Woods system' in the early 1970s, and accelerated to an unprecedented pace following the 'Economic Recovery Tax Act' of 1981, the U.S. national debt has been a
What many of us didn't know--including me for a long time--is that much of the billions of dollars of aid that Washington sent to Ukraine was in the form of CASH. Of course, there is zero accountability as to what happened to all of that cash.
Jessica Burbank and Amber Duke discuss the documentary "Finding the Money," which chronicles the U.S. monetary system. The hosts chat with the film's impact is director Maren Poitras.
According to new reports from the Social Security and Medicare trustees, Social Security and a Medicare fund that pays for hospital expenses will both begin running deficits in 2035 and 2036.
During a Senate Energy and National Resources Committee hearing this week, Republican Senator Josh Hawley exposed a Biden official as having no clue what is going on in her own department.
I'm opposed to debt jubilees. The reason is simple. One man's liability is another man's asset. If somebody owes money and defaults on the debt, it becomes a problem for the next person.
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"This is the weirdest era in human history. By far. Nothing else even comes close. Billionaires trying to kill everyone. Civil society unable to form a coherent thought..."
While Congress failed to pass a border security bill over the weekend amid a flurry of billions in international aid to Ukraine and Israel, they did set aside $3.5 billion for "Migration and Refugee Assistance" for the State Department to "address hu