Vicco, Kentucky to Pay Police Chief in Bitcoin
The Liberty Beat By: Derrick Broze The city of Vicco, Kentucky is believed to be the first city in the United States to pay a government official using the popular crypto currency BitCoin. Last [...]
Study: Food Stamps May Not Improve Food Access or Diet
The Liberty Beat By: Derrick Broze Researchers at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston have conducted a new study that suggests that food and nutrition assistance programs currently offered [...]
The Crimes of HSBC: Money Laundering, Libor Banking Scandal, Destruction of Indigenous Lands
(HFT) Derrick Broze Multinational bank HSBC is known for scandals as much as for global banking. In the summer of 2012 the British multinational bank HSBC was exposed for laundering money for [...]
Largest Increase in Unemployment applicants in over a Year
By JOSH BOAK WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits rose 68,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 368,000, the largest increase in more than a year. The surge [...]
Alleged Silk Road Founder Denied Bail
The Liberty Beat By: Derrick Broze On Thursday a magistrate judge denied bail for Ross Ulbricht, the California man accused of being Dread Pirate Roberts of the Silk Road marketplace. The [...]
Loss of more than $10 Billion on GM Bailout
(CNN) – The Treasury Department has sold its final stake in General Motors, closing the book on its 2009 bailout of the auto industry. GM has been revived and is now profitable, but [...]
Bitcoin Tumbles After China Central Bank Bans Financial Companies From Using Digital Currency
Zero Hedge As we said back in March, when Bitcoin’s parabolic rise first started, it was only a matter of time before first one, then all central banks take on Bitcoin for the simple fact [...]
10 Ways Bitcoin Is Better Than The Federal Reserve
Eric Blair Activist Post The Federal Reserve System is a parasite that feeds off human suffering. It is indeed the dragon that must be slayed for humanity to experience true freedom. I want to [...]
CURRENCY CONTROLS: ARGENTINA CRACKS DOWN ON FOREIGN TRAVEL
TESTOSTERONE PIT By Bianca Fernet, stilettos-on-the-ground American economist in Buenos Aires, antidote to economists who act like economics is too complicated to understand and who spout off [...]
Price of Electricity Hit Record for October; Up 42% in Decade
By Terence P. Jeffrey (CNSNews.com) – The price of electricity hit a record for the month of October, according to data released Wednesday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That made [...]
