A Jamboree for Billionaires After decades of desperate cries of crisis and alarm from thousands of activists, wouldn’t you wonder, as Francis Menton does regarding the global warming scare, why catastrophe hasn’t struck well before now? And this before weighing the trillions of dollars in government funds invested. Interesting how somehow trillions of dollars of […]
City Dwellers Want to Be Great Again Too
You know that Americans have been fleeing America’s big blue blob cities, looking for a better America for their families and children. But the people left behind in the cities aren’t happy with their leaders. Many city voters expressed their frustration by voting for Republicans, especially Trump, in greater numbers than they have in a […]
What Makes America Great
Not Democrats’s Failed Policies Congratulations to President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect J.D. Vance. Voters sent a loud and clear message to Harris/Walz: Do not shame us on your social issues. It is the economy, stupid, that makes America great. Harris and her Obama-led campaign threw everything but the kitchen sink at voters: from shaming […]
The Halloween Economy
In The Wall Street Journal, Rachel Wolfe explains the economic boon being reaped by towns capitalizing on local ghost stories or spooky pasts. She writes: Cities and towns across the U.S. with even a hint of spook are scrambling to cash in on a Halloween tourism boom. While travel to the usual haunts such as […]
Global Instability Pushes Gold to Record Highs
Fears of global instability and inflationary monetary policies have driven gold prices to record highs. Charlie McCarthy reports at Newsmax: High inflation, a toss-up presidential election, and escalating tensions in the Middle East reportedly are among the factors contributing to gold reaching record value. Bullion, which is up by more than 30% this year, surpassed […]
The Last K-Mart Closes
The last full-sized K-Mart superstore in America, located in Bridgehampton, NY, has closed. At The Wall Street Journal, Alyssa Lukpat and Suzanne Kapner explain the loss of what one local called “the only place normal people can afford to shop in the Hamptons.” They write: BRIDGEHAMPTON, N.Y.—The Kmart store is down the road and a […]
Allow Recession to Dismantle the Welfare-Warfare State
Former congressman and presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul explains to readers at the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity that rather than artificially prop up the economy with cheapened fiat money, the government (including the Federal Reserve) ought to allow a recession, and with that the dismantling of the welfare-warfare state and fiat money […]
Turns Out that Subsidies Are Still Bad Economics
Anyone who has taken a rudimentary course in economics has learned about the dead-weight loss of subsidies and how they deprive good taxpayers of their money while creating problems in the economy. But, as politicians are wont to do, anytime they see an opportunity to “do something,” they go ahead and do it, regardless of […]
The Fed Is Done Fighting Inflation
Despite Americans still suffering from extremely high prices on the essentials they need, the Federal Reserve run by Jerome Powell has waved the white flag on its fight against inflation. Christopher Rugaber reports in The New York Sun: The Federal Reserve on Wednesday cut its benchmark interest rate by an unusually large half-point, a dramatic […]
America’s Shocking Lack of Competitiveness in Shipbuilding
Colin Grabow of War on the Rocks reports that American maritime policy desperately needs an overhaul. Grabow writes: U.S. maritime policy is a grievous failure. Whether evaluated in terms of effectively meeting national security requirements or bolstering the country’s economy, America can point to few successes. Inefficient commercial shipbuilding barely registers as a rounding error […]
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