Money-Supply Growth Accelerates To 28-Month High
The Fed apparently has concluded the market requires additional liquidity and has acted accordingly…
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The Deep State: The Headless Fourth Branch Of Government
School kids learn that there are three branches of government: the legislative, executive, and judicial. In practice, however…
Continue readingTrump Vs. The Deep State Vs. The Rest Of Us
It should be easy to see, in the battle between the president and the deep state, which side is the most dangerous…
Continue readingAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Wrong: We’re Not Working 80-Hour Weeks Now
It has become nearly commonplace for pundits and politicians to claim that Americans are working more than ever before…
Continue readingThe American Middle Class Isn’t Disappearing, But It’s Not All Good News
I’m not of the opinion that the American economy is doing amazingly well. However, I’m also not of the opinion that it is falling apart…
Continue readingCalifornia Has The Nation’s Worst Poverty Rate (Again)
Leaving California’s the best chance to increase one’s real income and have a life that doesn’t involve working long hours to afford a fixer-upper?
Continue readingTeenage Celebrity Climate Activist Greta Thunberg To Poor Countries: Drop Dead
Thunberg seems unaware that in poor and developing countries, carbon emissions are more a lifeline to children than they are a threat.
Continue readingThe Brexit Battle Shows Democracy Is Only Allowed When The Regime Likes The Outcome
The recent court ruling is the latest move from the UK’s political class designed to postpone Brexit…
Continue readingWhy The Government Can’t Measure Income, Happiness, Or Well-Being
The government’s become preoccupied with things that can be measured — such as jobs and wages — while neglecting the more hidden…
Continue readingIf Deficits Are This Huge Now, What Happens When The Recession Hits?
In a world where government borrowing allows spending to balloon even in times of falling revenue, we’re setting the stage for future problems…
Continue readingMedia Focus On Mass Shootings Shows Disconnect From Actual Crime Trends
Most Americans murdered this year will be victims of the sort we see in Baltimore where ordinary murders of the non-mass-shooting variety continue…
Continue readingThe Interest Rate Cut Shows The Fed Is Either Clueless Or Lying, Or Both
If the economy needs a rate cut under these conditions, it’s hard to imagine a situation in which the Fed will be enthusiastic about another rate increase…
Continue readingConsumers Will Decide If Women’s Sports Teams Get “Equal Pay”
If the fans want the women to be paid more than the men, the consumers will have to spend more…
Continue readingThe American Revolution Was A Free-Trade Revolution
Then as now, American protectionists think themselves “egregiously maltreated, injured, cheated, and robbed” by foreigners who…
Continue readingCNN Admits There Are Serious Problems with Central Banks’ Low-Interest-Rate Policy
There are three big takeaways here, and it’s surprising CNN has mentioned them.
Continue readingBernie & Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Declare War On The Poor With Anti-Credit Card Law
Naturally, Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez are framing the bill as something designed to help “ordinary people.” But in reality…
Continue readingBernie Sanders Tells America: Pull Yourself Up By Your Bootstraps
We can see from Sanders’s own success in selling books that inequality is not necessarily a result of the wealthy exploiting the poor…
Continue readingVelcro, Straws & More: Capitalists (Unlike Environmentalists) Make Life Easier For Disabled
Useless products from greedy capitalists just trying to make a buck, or new products and services the world might be willing to pay for?
Continue readingWhy Trump Wants The Fed To Pump Even More Easy Money
Trump continues to labor under the mistaken impression that the threats to the economy come during the tightening stage of Fed policy. Here’s more…
Continue readingA College “Education” Has Little To Do With Education
College has less to do with education and more to do with a piece of paper that helps sustain membership in elite social circles…
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