Yes, the Latest Bank Bailout Is Really a Bailout, and You Are Paying for It.

Germany's Pension Time Bomb: $2+ Billion In CRE Losses Expose Cracks In The Fiat Era Submitted by Thomas Kolbe, A shock for the insured members of the Versorgungswerk Zahnärzte Berlin-Brandenburg (VZB). According to a report this week by Bloomberg, losses at the private pension fund total €1.1 billion. Roughly 50 percent of its invested capital has effectively been wiped out—channeled into private loans to non-listed companies, including rPlanet Earth in California, a shrimp farm in northern Germany, and, repeatedly featured on the investment menus of German pension funds, U.S. commercial real...

Multiple US embassies in the Middle East have told Americans they cannot facilitate evacuations, despite a State Department advisory for US citizens to leave more than a dozen countries in the region, Business Insider reported on Tuesday. “The US Embassy is not in a position at this time to evacuate or directly assist Americans in departing Israel,” the US […]

Ryan McMaken, editor-in-chief for Mises.org, joins John Stossel to grade Donald Trump's first year in office prior to tonight's State of the Union.