Author Archives: Megan Russell

Quantitative easing is a sneaky way to make everyone dealing in U.S. dollars pay off the U.S. debt.

Even as recently as 2007, banks were paying 4% interest. Now you have to go to the hundredth decimal before you find your interest rate.

In its simplest form, the government prints money and uses the newly printed currency to fund government spending.

To comply, most firms must archive and report massive amounts of information. Here are five of the more interesting regulations.

The president’s hope to restrict the plans should actually make owners more interested in creating one.

Which part of the conservative party appeals best to you: promoting the welfare of big business, legislating morality or advocating personal freedom and responsibility?

Social Security withdrawals have enslaved workers to depend on government largess when they could have been independently wealthy.

The economics of the job market are complicated, and an executive order can’t grant America a higher wage.

Willful violations of ERISA legislation carry criminal penalties of up to a year in prison for the plan sponsor and a fine of up to $100,000 for the corporation.

Both authors claimed there were errors in our article all the while agreeing with our assessment of the unemployment numbers.

We actually underreported the portion of jobless Americans. It did not include the people who are represented in the unemployment rate.

Economic freedom enriches society, lifts the poor out of poverty and respects the agency and dignity of human choice.

The stock market can occasionally benefit from the misery index.

Whenever the IRS challenges you, the burden of producing evidence that your claims are true rests entirely with you.

In addition to learning how a viral story can get many of the facts wrong, another more important lesson can be learned from this experience.

Here’s to a better 2014!

This holiday season, remember to cherish the important values of life.

Prior to the Obama administration, only three espionage cases had ever been brought.

“What is remarkable is that is actually acknowledging it is illegal.”

No volume of abuse seems sufficient to rouse public opinion.

If the TSA were a private security firm, they would have been fired by now.

This WHO 2000 Statistical Report was the study used to justify and promote the Affordable Care Act. Here are seven facts about this so-called research lurking behind politicians’ claims that our health care system is in crisis

After I have studied their technical reports and data for over a month and a half, I have finally been able to track their formulas and findings across the dozen sub-studies and their corresponding literature. The methods and statistical formulas used are at times surprising, alarming, or comical.

A change in attitude is needed for the poor to develop a wealth-generating mindset.

A total of 85 different income-tested benefit programs and their expenditure as of 2002.

Your opinions depend on your view of humanity.

Even the negative or inconsequential effects of welfare often fail to convinced some people that a new system of assistance is necessary.

Blaming the 85% with 100% of the wealth for the poverty of the remaining 15% is unreasonable. The two are unrelated.

The partisan deadlock offers us a novel opportunity to reach consensus.

The video “Wealth Inequality in America” is not only misleading, but the research methods of its underlying study are laughable.

The government continued to pay for their website hosting and the domain name licensing but hid all of the data from Internet users.

Requiring employers to deliver government propaganda is genius.

Obnoxious, playboy Tony Stark, more commonly known as Iron Man, is admired by his fictional and real fans alike. Why not real life CEOs?

Fun first. Freedom first. Innovation first. Financial goals first. But not safety. No one says, “That looks safe; I wonder if it is fun.”

Before a grandmother passes away, both her sons predecease her. Left with only her daughter and grandchildren, depending on her titling one of three things may happen.

“They don’t deserve it!” is the most common complaint. And in most cases it’s true

When I work my 9 to 5 job and earn a paycheck, I receive a paper certificate I can trade in for the real reward of my labor. But why do investors get a reward?

A recent letter from a reader expressed the claim that there is no such thing as natural rights. Could he be right?

An unprovoked attack is always wrong everywhere, but can a law professor and attorney-at-law prove the biological basis for their field?

NPR writer Alva Noë says privacy is unimportant, but from the very start of his argument Noë is confused about what privacy is.

Three part time employees equals two full time employees while avoiding $4,000 in annual fines.

The Affordable Care Act encourages everyone to get health care insurance by punishing those who don’t. Proponents of Obamacare justify this saying that health care is a human right. But is it?

Corporations go bankrupt for a wide variety of reasons, but there’s only one reason for municipalities.

Money is not the source of the corruption in Congress.

The complete guide to saving money while washing your clothes. What temperature should the water be? What cycle should I use? What detergent should I use?

We need to protect more of our natural rights by enumerating them.

Thanks to the public record, pieces of otherwise random information can be used to precisely identify an individual. Find out what some of the most common data leaks are in your life.

If there isn’t a strong enough outcry, these practices will become institutionalized.

Many people have asked what can be done. Here is a proposal.

“If they were in my position, and, you know, you live a privileged life—you’re living in Hawaii, in Paradise, and making a ton of money—what would it take to make you leave everything behind?”