Stagnation or stagflation – Biden the new Jimmy Carter?
Unless you have an affinity for bell-bottom pants and Saturday Night Fever, many Americans do not look back at the 1970s ...
Tag: Economy
Dangerous monetary manipulations and fiscal follies
Back in the 1960s, Everett Dirksen (1896-1969) served as the Republican Party minority leader in the U.S. Senate. One of ...
Big debt plus rising interest rates = big danger
If there is anything Wall Street banks crave is relief. Primarily relief from the potential for failure and, next, relief ...
Biden is covering up true price tag of infrastructure plan, experts warn
President Biden’s just-released infrastructure proposal takes a “go big or go home” approach. Its various provisions have been tallied at $2 ...
9 crazy examples of unrelated waste and partisan spending in Biden’s $2 trillion ‘infrastructure’ proposal
The Biden administration on Wednesday released a comprehensive $2+ trillion spending proposal ostensibly focused on infrastructure. But there’s much more ...
Progressivism’s failures: From minimum wages to the welfare state
As I write, the Democratic Congress is contemplating various measures designed to alleviate poverty levels in the United States. They ...
The so-called ‘infrastructure’ plan is just a foundation for MMT and the Green New Deal
There's a narrative being quietly pressed around Washington DC among Democrats and even a few Republicans. Nobody's talking about it ...
Markets are more knowledgeable than intellectuals
One principal takeaway from my previous essay for AIER is that the negative impact of imports on some domestic producers is not ...
Times getting harder for the homeless
Homelessness is a problem throughout the nation, and during the pandemic it has been growing exponentially, especially in larger metropolitan areas. ...
Will the next crypto craze revolutionize art, business?
In 2016, a couple of teenagers, unimpressed by some of the displays at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ...