Current Capitalist Interest Stories

The Return of Odysseus

FCR Podcast. Day 141 of the Revolution. The “relaunch” of FreeCapitalist Radio, 3 years to the day of the tragic death of Les McGuire & Ray Hooper. “The Barnacles of Les McGuire,” Gov. Palin’s recent remarks & Homer’s Odyssey, Pres. Obama’s Cairo Speech to Muslims.    Today’s FreeCapitalist Radio show marks the fourth iteration of FreeCapitalist Radio first started by Rick Koerber on October... [Read more of this review]

9 in 10 Favor Protections for Secret Ballots

Guest Editorial | Poll Shows Voters Demand State Constitutional Protection of Secret Ballot Elections; Highest Support Among Union Households Salt Lake City, UT - 9 out of 10 Utah voters want the state constitution to be amended to protect secret ballots, concluded a poll conducted by Wilson Research Strategies.  This poll surveyed likely voters to assess attitudes toward the issue of voting by secret ballot and found that overwhelming support for... [Read more of this review]

Union’s Expect Obama Payback - Seek to End Secret Ballots

Updated Guest Editorial | On Tuesday’s Glenn Beck Show, a discouraging statistic was shown. In 1999, all government spending as a portion of our national GNP was 33%. In 2009, that number stands at 39%. An astonishing number when you consider that the United States produces over $14 trillion in goods and services annually.  If that number frightens you and raises red flags about the growth of government, then something is on the horizon which... [Read more of this review]

Was Ayn Rand Right, 52 Years Ago?

By Stephen Moore (Wall Street Journal) | Some years ago when I worked at the libertarian Cato Institute, we used to label any new hire who had not yet read “Atlas Shrugged” a “virgin.” Being conversant in Ayn Rand’s classic novel about the economic carnage caused by big government run amok was practically a job requirement. If only “Atlas” were required reading for every member of Congress and political appointee... [Read more of this review]

UT Ranked Among Most Corrupt

A recent survey published in the New York Times as part of its article “Which is the Most Corrupt State?” where researchers asked state house reporters to assess their subjects and ranked responses on a scale of 1 (clean) to 7 (crooked).  Utah’s State Officials ranked #15, among the most corrupt in the nation. —– Where is officialdom most crooked? Last week, many guessed it must be Illinois, after news that Gov. Rod... [Read more of this review]

Utah: Records Release Escalates Charges of Gov’t Corruption

SALT LAKE CITY, January 6 - New evidence signals for the first time that prominent members of Utah Governor Jon Huntsman’s Department of Commerce may be directly involved in illegal, and sometimes criminal activities. On Monday January 5, Utah County businessman and talk radio host C. Rick Koerber announced that he will begin releasing to the public a mountain of evidence implicating several government employees and officers.  The evidence... [Read more of this review]

Israel War Channel on YouTube

From (The Jerusalem Post) |In the midst of its Gaza operations, the IDF is entering yet another conflict zone: the Internet. The Israeli army announced yesterday the creation of its own YouTube channel, through which it will disseminate footage of precision bombing operations in the Gaza Strip, as well as aid distribution and other footage of interest to the international community. “The blogosphere and new media are another war zone,”... [Read more of this review]

RNC Speaking Out Against Socialism? Wow.

By Ralph Z. Hallow (Washington Times) |In what would amount to a slap in the face to a sitting Republican president and the party’s Senate and House leaders, national GOP officials, including the vice chairman of the Republican National Committee, are sponsoring a resolution opposing the resort to “socialist” means to save capitalism. “We can’t be a party of small government, free markets and low taxes while supporting... [Read more of this review]

Forbes: How Capitalism Will Save Us

By Steve Forbes (Forbes Magazine) |We are experiencing the devastating consequences of a chain of major economic policy errors, which, to use a current cliché, created the perfect storm. These government blunders temporarily paralyzed the global credit system and are now sending the U.S. and Europe into recession, while sharply cutting back Asia’s growth rates. Left to its own devices, the credit crisis, which began in August 2007, would have... [Read more of this review]

Mystery? SEC Not Effective at Stopping Fraud

By Stephen Labaton (International Herald Tribune) |  WASHINGTON: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a once-proud agency with an impressive history as the top cop on Wall Street, finds itself increasingly conducting autopsies of leading financial institutions after failing, in the first instance, to perform adequate biopsies. The latest black eye for the commission came when it was disclosed that inspectors and agency lawyers had missed... [Read more of this review]

Britain: joining Euro?

AFP (BREITBART.COM) | Britain is considering joining the eurozone as a direct consequence of global financial turmoil, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said Sunday. “We are now closer than ever before. I’m not going to break the confidentiality of certain conversations, but some British politicians have already told me: ‘If we had the euro, we would have been better off’,” Barroso told a weekly French... [Read more of this review]