Rising Homicides This Year May Be Yet Another Side Effect of Covid Lockdowns
While many factors are likely at play, we may be seeing yet another side effect of the stay-at-home orders and resulting social fragmentation that…
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In August, Money Supply Growth Hit a Record High for the Fifth Month in a Row
The central bank continues to engage in a wide variety of unprecedented efforts to “stimulate” the economy…
Continue readingGovernments Will Impose New Lockdowns If They Think They Can Get Away with It
This permanent embrace of emergency power is to be expected. Governments have long used crises as an excuse to…
Continue readingIt’s Not “Just Property”: How Looting Destroys Lives and Low-Income Neighborhoods
There are three reasons why looting will only serve to hurt exactly the ordinary people for whom pro-looting advocates pretend to be champions…
Continue reading2020 Will Be a Record-Breaking Year for Debt. How Long Can This Last?
Most Americans don’t seem particularly concerned about this…
Continue readingWhen Reparations for Slavery Become Just Another Welfare Program
The reparations issue is unlikely to disappear any time soon, because it will remain useful to the debate over taxpayer funding of the welfare state. As such…
Continue readingHow Bailouts And Stimulus Pave The Way For A Lot More Spending On Everything
It’s easy to see why more and more people today are left wondering why they can’t get a bigger piece of the ever growing government bailout pie…
Continue readingMoney-Supply Growth Hits New High for Third Month in a Row
The growth rate has never been higher, with the 1970s the only period that comes close..
Continue readingAmericans Are Buying Guns in Record Numbers: Left-Wing Media Organizations Aren’t Pleased
People aren’t buying guns as a reaction to violence and social disarray, the Post insists. Those new gun purchases are what’s causing the violence…
Continue readingUS EMPLOYMENT STALLS AS TRILLION-DOLLAR DEFICITS MOUNT
Hopes that the economy might soon roar back and bring some relief from skyrocketing deficits remain unfounded for now…
Continue readingHow the Left Uses “Public Health Crises” to Get What It Wants
After insisting for weeks that leaving one’s home or gathering in groups was “irresponsible” and a “slap in the face” to medical professionals…
Continue readingThe Corona Crisis Could Bring a New Era of Decline for American Core Cities
The costs of being victimized is just one of many reasons homeowners & businesses may realize life & business in core cities has lost its luster…
Continue readingThe Employment Situation Is Still A Disaster
It’s quite clear we have a long way to go…
Continue readingCentral Bankers Gone Wild: It’s a New Era at the Fed
We’re in a very odd situation right now in terms of evaluating the state of the economy…
Continue readingMr. Trump, Don’t Deploy the Military to American Cities without Their Consent
It’s quite difficult to know how much is a real plan, and how much is just bluster. In any case, the President is being cheered on by…
Continue readingThree Ways The Coronavirus Lockdowns Paved the Way for These Riots
It didn’t require an especially clear crystal ball to see that destroying the livelihoods of countless millions while empowering a police state could lead to…
Continue readingRiots Are a Reminder that Police Don’t Protect You or Your Property
It is clear that most property owners and residents will have to fend for themselves where riots have taken place…
Continue readingCOVID-19 Lockdowns Will Go The Way Of The National 55-MPH Speed Limit
The experience may be instructive today as many policymakers insist that Americans must accept ongoing mass lockdowns and stay-at-home orders in the…
Continue readingUnemployment Kills: The Longer Lockdowns Last, the Worse It Will Get
When unemployment leads to impoverishment or loss of social status, unemployment is itself a major health problem…
Continue readingThanks to Lockdowns, State and Local Tax Revenues Are Plummeting
Unlike the federal government, state and local governments in America can’t just create money out of thin air. So when tax revenues go down, that money is…
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