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“They call me Mister Jones” – HUH?

The U.S. government has been wasting money in some of the most bizarre ways imaginable. Some of the examples that I am about to share with you are likely to make you feel sick.

Wasting colossal piles of our tax dollars would be bad enough if we were running a balanced budget, but that is certainly not the case. We have been adding trillions of dollars to the national debt each year, and our federal government is now more than 36 trillion dollars in debt. So the truth is that we have had to borrow the money that we have been recklessly Continue reading →

Cigna Group plans to make changes to help lower out-of-pocket cost of prescription drugs, the company said on Wednesday, as it responds to criticism over the role of its pharmacy benefit manager in driving up drug costs.

The changes will allow patients access to lower prices negotiated by Cigna’s pharmacy benefit manager, Express Scripts. Continue reading →

“The suspicions that the system is rigged in favor of the largest banks and their elites, so they play by their own set of rules to the disfavor of the taxpayers who funded their bailout, are true. It really happened. These suspicions are valid.” ~ Neil Barofsky

Most Americans realize that the federal government is drowning in debt and that inflation is out of control. But very few Americans can coherently explain where money comes from or how our financial system actually works. For decades, bankers that we do not elect have controlled America’s currency, have run our economy into the ground, and have driven the U.S. government to the brink of bankruptcy. The Federal Reserve is an institution that was designed to drain wealth from U.S. taxpayers and transfer it to the global elite. Continue reading →

Peace on earth is a wish that gets extra emphasis this time of year. We’re told to pray for it, wish for it, keep it forever in our minds. So why don’t we have it?

The short answer is money. War is profitable to some. It’s profitable enough that profiteers in private industries influence government, which stays home and orders others to do the fighting. War costs money. Where does the government get it? Visible taxes (income, corporate, and payroll) cover about two-thirds of government revenue. The rest comes from borrowing and inflation. Continue reading →

Economics is within your reach: much more so than you might think!

Do you ever feel… lost? You’re stepping into adulthood. The “real world” is calling. You want to answer the call, but the real world is a real mess.

College is absurdly expensive. And after you graduate, then what? You’d like to start “adulting.” But the cost of living is high, especially with student loan payments to keep up with. You need a good, steady income, job security, and health care. But in this economy, even with a degree, it seems really hard to find a job that offers all that. And a job that also involves doing work you love? That seems next to impossible.

How do you wade through this mess? You worry if maybe you can’t. So how do we clean the mess up? That’s a massive task: too big for any one person. This looks like a job for policy. Continue reading →

Signs that we were once a truly great nation are all around us. Previous generations of Americans handed us the keys to the most magnificent domestic infrastructure that the world had ever seen, but now it is literally falling apart all around us. Thousands of bridges are structurally deficient and there have already been some very high profile collapses. Hundreds of thousands of miles of highways and roads in the United States are in very poor shape. Aging sewer systems are leaking raw sewage all over the place, and children are being slowly poisoned by lead pipes that desperately need to be replaced. The power grid is hopelessly overloaded and is extremely vulnerable.

Meanwhile, our ports, our dams, our subway systems, our bus terminals and our airports are crumbling right in front of our eyes. The truth is that our nation’s infrastructure says a lot about who we are.

So what does America’s crumbling infrastructure say about us? Sadly, it says that we are a rusting, crumbling, decaying leftover from a better, more prosperous time. Continue reading →