When A Toll Isn't A Toll

Al 'Mr.Impeachment' Green Out As Crypto-Backed Candidates Win Key Texas Primary Runoffs Authored by Christina Comben via CoinTelegraph.com, Crypto-backed political groups supported several winning candidates in Texas primary runoffs Tuesday, highlighting the digital asset industry’s growing role in US elections as Congress debates new rules for crypto markets. Attorney General Ken Paxton won the Republican US Senate runoff against four-term Senator John Cornyn by a wide margin, according to Texas primary runoff results, and will face Democratic state Representative James Talarico in November. In Houston’s 18th Congressional District, Democrat Christian Menefee unseated fellow Democrat representative Al Green...

The US “celebrates” its 250th birthday today, but not everyone is celebrating. We bring back a classic from 10 years ago that is even more relevant today.

Bigger Isn't Better: A Case For Downsizing The Federal Reserve Authored by via Paul Mueller via the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), President Trump’s conflicts with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and with Board of Governors member Lisa Cook have obscured real shortcomings at the Federal Reserve and brought little useful change. These conflicts tend to focus on whether the Fed’s target interest rate is too high or too low. Meanwhile, institutional problems at the Fed have been largely overlooked. But there is an opportunity here with Trump’s nominee for Fed chair, Kevin...