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Robo-Advisors: When You Have a Lot More to Lose than Money

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Update 5.2.22: Just when you thought robo-advisers couldn’t get worse, they’re marrying up with ESG investing, which you know from here, here, and here that you should avoid. The target of these two investing fads? Young people, of course. The Wall Street Journal reports: More young adults are looking to invest in ESG, but many […]

Russian Threat Has Replaced Covid Threat

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Paul Craig Roberts of Institute for Political Economy writes (abridged): Today in Florida the only places you need a mask are offices of medical conglomerates, such as Ascension (Sacred Heart), a hospital group that also has doctor’s offices where the MD is hired and not in private practice, and Quest Diagnostics where medical tests are […]

Long Past Time to ”Bring Back Trump”?

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Paul Craig Roberts of LewRockwell.com writes, the Biden Administration continues to harass Americans about vaccinations and mask mandates as some 600,000 immigrants enter the country without masks or vaccinations. He continues (abridged): US immigration policy, or lack thereof, permits massive numbers of people of color (POC), but not white people of European ethnicity, to enter […]

BIDEN ADMIN ADMITS: Just Wants Power Over You

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You know that Democrat politicians have gone wild with emergency powers since the beginning of COVID-19. Whole state economies were shut down in the blink of an eye. Now those same politicians have the audacity to claim that they’re “creating jobs” as the economies they broke come back online. But rarely have they admitted that […]

Freedom from Government’s Performative Safety-ism

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Or, “the night the masks came off.” Is the Biden White House so “insular, conceited and tone-deaf” that it may try to have Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle’s ruling overturned? Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle voided the Biden administration’s widely reviled but recently extended mask mandate on public transportation, reports Paul du Quenoy in Spectator World. Awkwardly […]

Draconian COVID School Closures Cost 13.8 Million Years of Life Lost

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According to a new study published as a working paper by the NBER, the harsh school lockdowns in response to COVID-19 cost Americans 13.8 million years in lost life. Just the News reports: A working paper that examined how U.S. states responded to the COVID-19 pandemic found strict lockdowns and other COVID-19 policies did little […]

Florida: Debbie and My State of Residence since 1992

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Debbie and I have lived in Florida since moving to Old Town Key West in 1992. During the entire COVID pandemic, Florida governor Ron DeSantis has put Florida residents first, and succeeded in navigating through it without tanking the state’s economy. Below you can read some descriptions of DeSantis’s efforts. First up is Karol Markowicz […]

COVID Policy Driven by Groupthink, Politics

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Are you getting a 4th COVID vaccine dose? Trust in public health is at a record low, and now the FDA is bypassing its own experts. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration authorized Americans 50 and over to get a fourth COVID vaccine dose, reports the WSJ. Some of the FDA’s own experts disagree […]

How Did We Get COVID Broke?

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Crying “emergency,” Washington spent $6.6 trillion in fiscal 2020 and $6.8 trillion more in 2021 on Covid-related issues. Both years equaled 50% more in spending than in 2019, reports Kimberley Strassel in the WSJ. All for Covid Only a year ago, Democrats waved through a sixth Covid relief bill, President Biden’s massive $1.9 trillion American […]