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Latest Freedom News

Freedom's Hofacker sets state record in 200 dash
LA CROSSE — You could sense Collin Hofacker's tempered enthusiasm following his record-breaking performance in the Division 2 200 preliminaries at the WIAA state track meet on Friday at Veterans Memorial Stadium. The Freedom senior set the record ...
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Indy Pride Week expected to draw more than 100000 despite Religious ...
More than 100,000 people are expected to pack downtown for the weeklong festival, which comes just two months after the Religious Freedom Restoration Act controversy. Indy Pride President Chris Morehead said the controversy won't have an impact on ...
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Seventh Inning Rally Gives Freedom Come From Behind Win
The Florence Freedom (7-11) used a three-run seventh inning to power past the Traverse City Beach Bums by a score of 5-3 on Thursday night. Florence went into the seventh inning trailing 2-1. Zack Burling's first professional hit, an infield single ...
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The Search For Freedom | An Action Sports Documentary
That's the subject of The Search for Freedom, a new documentary film written and produced by Jon Long (IMAX® Extreme) and partnered with GrindTV—the go-to online publication for all action sports. After years spent documenting various action sports ...
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Latest Crony Capitalism News

Mike Huckabee: Crony capitalism stifling 'fair tax'
Mike Huckabee: Crony capitalism stifling 'fair tax'. Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee addresses attendees during Rick Scott&#. Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee ...
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Listen Live: Arguments For & Against Export-Import Bank, Crony Capitalism at ...
The Export-Import Bank, one of the purest excresences of corporate welfare and crony capitalism ever imagined. Created during FDR's days, Ex-Im guarantees loans and gives other assistance to foreign companies seeking to buy goods from such as ...
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Crony Capitalism Pays Big For Democratic Donor Elon Musk
Our friends at the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) recently criticized tech entrepreneur Elon Musk for defending his taxpayer-subsidized businesses of SpaceX, Tesla and SolarCity. In response to a Los Angeles Times article noting Musk's $ 4.9 ...
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Latest Wall Street Corruption News

Shenzhen's tycoon golf course the latest casualty of China's anti-corruption ...
The Wall Street Journal wrote about the club's quandary earlier this week. China has had a love-hate relationship with golf ever since the Communist Revolution. More recently the sport has been targeted as part of Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign ...
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Corruption Currents: Cisco Denies Trying to Dodge Sanctions
Wall Street Journal. Reuters. A daily roundup of corruption news from across the Web. We also provide a daily ... The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis confirmed hackers had successfully attacked the bank. (NY Times). Hacked Sony Corp. emails reveal ...
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Chile's Bachelet: Crack Down on Corruption Needed
Chile's President Michelle Bachelet said Thursday her administration will push ahead with contested legislative changes, even as her government's popularity fades in the face of weak consumer and business confidence, and allegations of political ...
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Latest Shadowstats News

Investigating The GDP Deflator
Both Doug and I consider Shadowstats absurd, but we include it because many follow the number. For a recent critique of the measure please see Deconstructing and Debunking Shadowstats. GDP Implicit Deflator (Official GDP). Real GDP. GDP with PCE as ...
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Gold near all-time inflation-adjusted low
They even implemented a new “estimation system” this year. Most nongovernment economists think those changes have made the reading less accurate, not more. So I asked John Williams of Shadow Stats to calculate the gold price in March 2015 dollars ...
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16 Signs That The Economy Has Stalled Out And The Next Economic Downturn ...
According to John Williams of shadowstats.com, if honest numbers were used they would show that U.S. GDP growth has been continuously negative since 2005. But even if we consider the number that the government has given us to be the “real” number, ...
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Unemployment dips to the bottom – investors are still worried, why?
Actual unemployment is above 20% according to shadowstats.com which continued tracking unemployment based in reality after the government uncoupled their stats from all working age Americans and instead focused their stats only on those who are ...
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