Always and everywhere, the regime loots productive members of society to benefit corporate cronies, interest groups, and key voting blocs. The result is taxes, inflation, regulation, and war. The Loot and Lobby Podcast takes a closer look at how this happens, and who’s on the losing side.

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The Fed promises a soft landing, but the fact that the Fed now plans to start cutting interest rates is one of the strongest recession signals we can get.

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Powell: More Easy Money Is Coming Soon

The US will add another $2 trillion to the total debt this year, and the US is now spending a trillion of your dollars on interest per year. There is no end in sight.

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Feds’ Runaway Deficits Are Here to Stay

We already knew recent jobs reports—as far as the establishment survey is concerned, was based largely on made up numbers.

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Federal Jobs Report Slices Total Jobs in New Revision

Price inflation is never caused by greed. It's always caused by a growing money supply. The money supply has grown big-time since 2020, and now we pay a lot more for food and housing.

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Rising Prices Are Caused by Monetary Inflation, Not Greed

The total number of employed persons has fallen by 66,000 since August of 2023. Moreover, the new job growth is almost all in part-time jobs.

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America Now Has Fewer Employed Workers than It Did a Year Ago

Even if whole regions of the country vote overwhelmingly against a president, they are still forced to submit to four years of that president’s rule-by-decree.

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Why "Majority Rule" Doesn't Work

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