“The most telling thing about the entrapment prosecution is the sentencing memo, which blatantly lays out the feds’ fear and contempt for any attempt to keep a financial transaction private, whether or not anything inherently illegal is happening.”
Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/07/17/entrapment-prosecution-of-bitcoin-exchan
“Officials no longer want to publicize what kind of transactions fall under the reporting requirement. They worry that making too much information public will give money launderers a road map to stay off the radar of regulators.”
Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/real-estate-news/article213797269.html
“Are we to believe that the same institution that so recklessly hawks military weaponry to hostile actors is so sincerely concerned with protecting America’s national-defense capabilities that we can trust it to restrict, for reasons of national security, our freedom to trade?”
“The ‘Section 232’ probe was prompted by a petition filed by two U.S. uranium mining companies, Ur-Energy Inc and Energy Fuels Inc, complaining that subsidized foreign competitors have caused them to cut capacity and lay off workers.”
“City officials claimed the display constituted an unapproved ‘sign’ because it attracted people to look at the house. The couple were fined $100 per day.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/07/18/florida-couple-gets-to-keep-starry-paint
“The single biggest characteristic of today’s nobility is impunity, and — just as with the privileges associated with titles of nobility in the England our Framers rejected — this privilege extends not only to the titled, but to their retainers, in this case police and other government bureaucrats.”
“The three asserted that they had no choice but to use taxpayer money to stabilize the financial institutions. Paulson said, ‘I was totally ineffective at having the American people understand that what we were doing was for them and not for Wall Street.'”
Read more: https://apnews.com/f0c5c2a63f16473e999f64312039dbe2
“Global foreign direct investment flows were down 18% in 2017 from the previous year and nearly 24% from its post-recession high in 2015, which the OECD attributed to a surge in financial and corporate restructuring.”
Read more: https://money.cnn.com/2018/07/11/news/economy/foreign-direct-investment-2017/index.html
“Bringing in more tax revenues doesn’t help if spending goes up even faster. And that has, unfortunately, been the case, as the GOP-controlled Congress has gone on a spending spree.”
Read more: http://blog.independent.org/2018/07/16/u-s-collects-record-tax-revenue-but-deficits-keep-piling-up/
“If any other government department spent as much and accomplished as little, the populace would be in arms.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/war-doesnt-make-sense-anymore/