US goverment is already paying high interest rates

Joseph Lavorgna, chief U.S. economist for Deutsche Bank, was on The Kudlow Report yesterday talking about how various US corporations (including, Berkshire Hathaway, Proctor & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Abbott Labs, and Lowe’s Home Improvement) are able to issue two-year debt at lower interest rates than the Federal government right now.  This tends to get [...]

Federal government poisoned citizens during Prohibition

Yikes!  Slate published an article recently that has gotten a lot of attention regarding how the Federal government poisoned its own citizens during Prohibition:

Frustrated that people continued to consume so much alcohol even after it was banned, federal officials had decided to try a different kind of enforcement. They ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols [...]