The Data-Center Revolt Goes National: Tea Party Veteran Leads 142 Rallies Across 42 States

Doug Casey On The End Of Honest Markets Via InternationalMan.com, International Man: Markets are supposed to reflect economic reality. But when central banks suppress interest rates, governments debase currencies, and major powers manipulate oil prices for political purposes, can any market still be considered honest? Doug Casey: Almost all markets are distorted in some way by government intervention. Interest rates are the price of money itself. They’re the blood of an economy; when they’re manipulated, it amounts to blood poisoning. Currencies have become nothing more than floating abstractions. They move up and down by government fiat. The...

A Bumpy Ride Via Rabobank, Following the slightly hotter US CPI print on Wednesday – headline inflation was in line with expectations, but core accelerated a bit more than anticipated - producer price inflation accelerated significantly more than expected. Last month, US producer prices rose 1.3% m/m. Yet, rates were down on the day, not up. Maybe traders found some comfort in the fact that most of the inflationary pressure remains concentrated in energy prices. Or, perhaps, the PPI print underscored the pressure on US producers. If they are unable to pass...

The recent primary defeat of Thomas Massie will deprive this country of a free-market and anti-war voice. How should libertarians respond?