New York Post, May 11, 2023 How the Biden corruption empire ran under the radar for so long by James Bovard I know Romanian corruption. When I was exiting the country in 1987 after investigating its collapsing economy, I made sure to bribe every guard who searched my luggage at the Bucharest airport with a […]
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Will Biden’s Sham Corruption Crackdown Endanger Freedom?
American Institute for Economic Research, June 7, 2021 Will Biden’s Sham Corruption Crackdown Endanger Freedom? James Bovard Denouncing corruption is the easiest way for rascally politicians to appear honest. Upholding a venerable Washington Kabuki tradition, President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that he was “issuing” a memo to “establish combatting corruption as a core U.S. […]
Impeachment Reminder of Our Toxic Foreign Aid
Future of Freedom Foundation Impeachment Reminder of Our Toxic Foreign Aid by James Bovard June 26, 2020 Foreign aid to Ukraine helped spur the Democrats’ effort to impeach and remove President Trump earlier this year. Ukraine was supposed to be on the verge of great progress until Trump pulled the rug out from under the […]
Jamaica: No Free Market, No Miracle (1987)
This old article popped up in a Google search so I figured I would send it for another lap around the track. The Freeman, December 1987 (Foundation for Economic Education) Jamaica: No Free Market, No Miracle by James Bovard James Bovard, a widely published writer on economic affairs, writes frequently on international developments. An earlier […]
World Bank Is Still Bankrolling Tyranny
Jim Yong Kim, the president of the World Bank, announced today that he is quitting to take a better paying job in the private sector. This is a good opportunity to reconsider the Bank’s long record of bankrolling tyranny – a sordid practice that continued under Kim’s presidency. For decades, the World Bank has propped […]