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Archives for September 2024

An Interview with George Benson

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I first saw George Benson play in Boston’s “Combat Zone,” way back in the early sixties. My friends from the Sonny Stanton Band played with him. I’ve been a fan ever since. Below, you can listen to NPR’s Christian McBride interview with Benson and their discussion of his “lost” album, Dreams Do Come True: When […]

BLOOD THINNERS: Is a Big Advance Imminent?

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  UPDATE 9.20.24: At the World Federation of Neurology, Christian H. Nolte discusses a study he recently published in the Journal of the Neurological Sciences on Factor XI inhibitors, writing: The “holy grail” of preventing and treating thrombosis and thromboembolism would be a drug that was highly effective (preventing clots) and at the same time […]

Sen. Schumer Got Away with This?

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  Rationalizing Hate It’s hard to put aside the vision of Chuck Schumer standing outside the Supreme Court in 2020 and threatening by name Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch. Schumer’s Communique: “You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,”   Progressives rail […]

A Simple Reform to Protect the Fourth Amendment and Bank Customers

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At the Cato Institute, Norbert Michel discusses ways to improve the Bank Secrecy Act to protect the Fourth Amendment, bank customers, and banks themselves. He writes: Last week my Cato colleagues and I held our second annual Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives conference. The theme was Financial Privacy under Fire: Protecting and Restoring Americans’ […]

America Needs to Put the Brakes on Debt

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At the Cato Institute, Romina Boccia discusses the success of Germany’s debt brake and how that might be applied to save the United States from its overindebtedness. She writes: Germany’s constitutional debt brake, or Schuldenbremse, is a critical fiscal policy tool designed to limit structural government deficits. Instituted in 2009 following the global financial crisis, the […]

Are You Prepared to Run Out of Water?

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UPDATE 9.20.24: Alex Rappaport recently reported in the Boston Globe that the effects of water shortage will ripple through the world. He writes: As global leaders and innovators converge for Climate Week NYC, a critical issue remains conspicuously absent from the event’s 10 official themes: water scarcity. Across the globe, the struggle to secure adequate […]

Derangement Syndrome: Alive, if Not Exactly Well

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By pict rider @Adobe Stock A New Level of Hatred/Abuse Today in America, “The politics in our Country” are engulfed in “a whole new level of Hatred, Abuse, and Distrust.” It’s hard to disagree with that. More important, as Daniel Henninger asks in the WSJ, “How did we get here?”  In the early years of […]

Americans Are Risking Future Generations with Debt

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Americans have come to enjoy among the highest standards of living in all of history. As my friend Peter Goettler writes at Cato Institute, “There has never been a better time for human beings to be alive than right now. People across the globe are living longer, healthier, and more prosperous lives, surrounded and supported […]

What the Fed Rate Cut Means to You

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Remember when the talking heads said to stay away from bonds? That the balanced approach was dead? Well, they were wrong. Not that I’m taking a victory lap, I’m not. Because now that the Fed has cut interest rates by a half point, fixed income investing just got that much harder. All those eschewing bonds […]

DISUNION: Teamsters Refuse to Endorse Kamala Harris

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Donald Trump recently dominated an internal poll run by the Teamsters union, beating Kamala Harris among the union members, who responded 58% to 34% in favor of the President. The union, long a backer of Democratic politicians, subsequently refused to endorse Harris. Despite not endorsing Trump, the Teamsters’ failure to endorse the Democratic candidate is […]