By Ammon Nelson. WEST VALLEY CITY, UT | 3 September 2008 | The recent gas price hikes have brought out an interesting phenomenon in some religious communities as attendance in church on Sunday has reportedly dwindled.  Some may use this as yet another reason why the government must do something to “fix”...

HIGHLAND, UT | 19 August 2008| The real estate industry in the United States is in complete disarray. Many articles have been written on FreeCapitalist Daily to illustrate this point. Still, little has been done to really capture the severity of this problem. Throughout the country, many news articles...

HIGHLAND, UT | 29 July 2008 | The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced recently that housing prices in the U.S. are “overvalued” by as much as 20%. A common misconception in the world today is that things have inherent value and that when prices fluctuate they become overvalued or...

MAPLETON, UT | July 22, 2008 | Recently, two names have been plastered across headlines so often you’d be forgiven for thinking they were the latest hollywood pair. Their celebrity status has been cemented by constant mentions in the top news programs, length pieces on their life history, and endless...

SALT LAKE CITY, UT | 16 July 2008 | In a move that stirs up images of the Great Depression, people are lining up outside of IndyMac Bank branches to see that they “get theirs” before there is nothing left to get. Because of the number of people waiting to close their accounts and withdraw their...

HIGHLAND, UT | 14 July 2008 | The EPA, of all agencies, regularly publishes a calculation on human life value. They reported recently that over the past five years this value has dropped. What is the EPA doing calculating human life value? Turns out that many government agencies calculate this value,...

HIGHLAND, UT | 7 July 2008| Health care continues to be a big item in this year’s election campaigns and politics as the push toward a nationalized health care systems receives more and more pressure. Today, New York Times reporter, Robert Pear, tells the story of how the recent cuts in medicare...

HIGHLAND, UT | 4 July 2008 | Ah! The Fourth of July! That great mid-summer holiday. Full of parades and beauty pageants, fireworks, barbecues, 10k races, pancake breakfasts in the park, and flag raising ceremonies. This is what this holiday is all about, right? Oh, and thinking about the signing of the...

HIGHLAND, UT | 1 July 2008 | It took the opponents of firearms ownership less than a week to come up with their next attempt to ban handguns. Last week the Supreme Court struck down the 32-year old D.C. handgun ban in a 5-4 decision. Yesterday, AP “medical writer”, Mike Stobbe revealed a...

HIGHLAND, UT |18 June 2008 | While surfing the Internet for interesting news stories I came across an advertisement: “Who is to blame for $4 per gallon gasoline?” It then offered three photographs the reader could choose from for the blame. One was a picture of an Arab, representing the OPEC...