Michael Fitzpatrick: “Transparency and government accountability is what sets the United States of America apart from most other countries in…”

How is it the rating agencies get to pick and choose what debt they are going to rate and what debt they are not going to rate, especially when it affects small investors in the United States of America?

As we enter into the new year, Congress should prioritize efforts to stop the flow of money and resources to terrorist organizations.

Government is too big; government is too opaque; and government is increasingly unaccountable to Congress.

Criminal enterprises have relied on this method of illicit financing for years. However, many believe that this is an emerging technique now being used by terrorist groups to finance their violent and oppressive operations.