New York Post, April 25, 2023 Biden’s mortgage ‘equity’ will screw up the homebuying market By James Bovard When did being creditworthy become a federal crime? Team Biden will intentionally punish homebuyers with good credit scores to subsidize people with shaky histories of paying their debts. But the latest salvation scheme ignores the sordid history […]
I joined Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling last week on the Future of Freedom Foundation podcast. We had fun thrashing the Federal Reserve and all the financial ruin it is sowing. I was drawing from my New York Post oped, “Biden’s bank bailout just the latest in decades of DC disasters.”
New York Post, March 15, 2023 Biden’s bank bailout just the latest in decades of DC disasters by James Bovard Honest bailout” is Washington’s biggest oxymoron. After two federally insured banks crashed and burned over the past week, President Joe Biden promised Monday, “No losses will be borne by the taxpayers” from federal relief efforts. […]
Shaun Thompson and I had a rollicking chat today on Chicago’s The Answer AM 560. We talked about the recent Supreme Court decision permitting the CIA to invoke “State Secrets” to keep its torture site in Poland secrecy. The Presidential Records Act cover-up of presidential records took a beating, along with former presidents who got […]
New York Post, January 24, 2022 Inflation only goes up and will bankrupt Joe Biden and the Democrats By James Bovard In his victory lap at his marathon press conference last week, President Joe Biden boasted that “I have probably outperformed what anybody thought would happen” and “I have gotten the critical crises out of […]
American Institute for Economic Research, August 13, 2021 Nixon’s Gold Treachery Made Me a Cynic James Bovard Fifty years ago, on August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon announced that the U.S. government would cease honoring its pledge to pay gold to redeem the dollars held by foreign central banks. Nixon declared he was taking “action […]
Biden’s Rescue Act Targets Americans’ Freedoms by James Bovard Since the 1800s, surly Americans have derided politicians for spending tax dollars “like drunken sailors.” Until recently, that was considered a grave character fault. But Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act shows that inebriated spending is now the path to national salvation. It was a common […]
