"Economics, Politics, News" needed a new name, so there you have it, "theCL Report."

Our favorite 19th Century French philosopher/economist predicts and debunks Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Controlling to Detriment

The Coming Infrastructure Bank as an Off-Balance Sheet Scam

U.S. Government Merits a Junk Credit Rating: Laurence Kotlikoff

Wells Fargo Says 12 States in Economic Contraction

Actually Chinese Inflation Hasn't Slowed And It's About To Get Worse

U.S. Elites Begin To Confront The Paper Dollar

The Rise and Decline of Fiat Money?

Why Gold Will Replace US Treasuries as the World's Last Risk-Free Investment

Stop! Put Down the Gold and Walk Away

Go ahead politicians, tell us how important "Wall Street" is to the economy and to you. Let the thieves and liars continue to pollute the markets and screw everyone. Volatility is as high as it is precisely because people are tired of getting buttraped and after a few instances of it they simply say "screw this", take their money and go home.

They don't need the markets, the markets need them, and they're gone.

...Don't even try to "invest" in this market folks, and if you decide to trade, realize that you're playing in a rigged casino and the entire force of the government is not only behind rigging the casino but explicitly endorses and permitsthe rigging to go on and continue, despite being fully-aware of it.

Remember, "Wall Street is Main Street" to them - and if that means your retirement and investments get destroyed that's just fine provided that big buildings in downtown Manhatten continue to be infested by the thieves guild that pumps tithes into campaign coffers. -- Karl Denninger

Americans Are Increasingly Hostile to the Federal Government

Seeking Common Ground - A Fusion of Conservatives and Libertarians

Is Ron Paul out of touch or are we?

Colleges: Freshmen Orientation Means Indoctrination to Liberalism

The Party, the Whole Party and Nothing but the Party

Democrats have been the war party for 100 years.

Supports the Constitution? Here's a test.

What’s at stake in the 2012 Election

Breaking News! Big Bright Ball in sky Controls Climate!

Massive waste and fraud in Iraq and Afghanistan

Deregulating the Lawyers

The most basic principle to being a free American is the notion that we as individuals are responsible for our own lives and decisions. We do not have the right to rob our neighbors to make up for our mistakes, neither does our neighbor have any right to tell us how to live, so long as we aren’t infringing on their rights. Freedom to make bad decisions is inherent in the freedom to make good ones. If we are only free to make good decisions, we are not really free. -- Ron Paul

All ur bikes are belong to us

Another FBI Terrorist Trainer Goes Down

Your Children Will Be Communists

Letting Yourself Be Turned Into Product By Apple, Google, et al?

The Pushbutton Devil

We are about to plunge deeper into the Greater Depression

Vindicating Capitalism: The Real History of the Standard Oil Company

Decline of Empires: The Signs of Decay

The International Declaration of Preemptive War

This is an AWESOME Idea. I Want to Propose California Do Much More of This!

The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Machinery of Justice will not serve you here – it is slow and cold, and it is theirs, hardware and soft-. Only the little people suffer at the hands of Justice; the creatures of power slide from under it with a wink and a grin. If you want justice, you will have to claw it from them. Make it personal. Do as much damage as you can. Get your message across. That way, you stand a better chance of being taken seriously next time. Of being considered dangerous. And make no mistake about this: being taken seriously, being considered dangerous marks the difference – the only difference in their eyes – between players and little people. Players they will make deals with. Little people they liquidate. And time and again they cream your liquidation, your displacement, your torture and brutal execution with the ultimate insult that it's just business, it's politics, it's the way of the world, it's a tough life and that it's nothing personal. Well, fuck them. Make it personal. -- Richard K. Morgan

Armed Drone Helicopters To "Fight" Drug War

VIDEO: Rick Perry = Lindsey Graham on Illegal Immigration

Bachmann Wants to Repeal the EPA, eh?

Dirty little secret: Politicians have big incentive to whip up your fears

If you thought the 10th anniversary of 9/11 was about remembering the victims...

Bono the Capitalist Exploiter

The False WWII Analogy by Victor Davis Hanson

The real Left wing threat to Obama

John McCain Is Scum

VIDEO: Foundations of Social Engineering

Ironically, by transferring the risk of a widespread mortgage default, the government increases the likelihood of a painful crash in the housing market. This is because the special privileges granted to Fannie and Freddie have distorted the housing market by allowing them to attract capital they could not attract under pure market conditions. As a result, capital is diverted from its most productive use into housing. This reduces the efficacy of the entire market and thus reduces the standard of living of all Americans. Despite the long-term damage to the economy inflicted by the government’s interference in the housing market, the government’s policy of diverting capital to other uses creates a short-term boom in housing. Like all artificially-created bubbles, the boom in housing prices cannot last forever. When housing prices fall, homeowners will experience difficulty as their equity is wiped out. Furthermore, the holders of the mortgage debt will also have a loss. These losses will be greater than they would have otherwise been had government policy not actively encouraged over-investment in housing. -- Ron Paul (September 10, 2003)