Furloughed Federal Workers Will Receive Back-Pay
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Edward Snowden, the former contractor and NSA whistleblower who exposed secrets about the federal government’s surveillance programs, left Hong Kong legally Sunday with the help of the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks and now his plane has landed in Russia.
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Ed Pinto of AEI, appeared on Fox & Friends on June 19 to discuss the future of Fannie and Freddie post housing crisis, if we can accurately classify our economy as such, and warns of the looming housing crisis as a result of policy from the Federal Housing Authority.
Obama may just be right about one thing for a change – it is not his fault that the recent Obama scandals are plaguing the American people – and I would agree, because it is our fault.
After Obama’s reelection, unabashed liberalism and big government activism was coming out of the closet. Today, however, that outright unafraid big government push is dead in the water, as more voters than ever view the federal government as a threat to individual rights.
Advocates of central bank reform must examine why central banks emerged and what forces sustain them. They did not arise in an institutional vacuum, and will not be reformed in an institutional vacuum. The historical origins of central banks explain how they came into existence. The forces sustaining and feeding their growth may differ from those explaining their origin.
Plans to abolish central banks constitute an extreme reform. It is doubtful that such plans can succeed without broader institutional change, occurring either first or simultaneously. That is likely true regardless of the strength of evidence on central bank performance. I examine these issues in what follows.
