Will Elites Impose Neo-Feudalism on Their Peoples?
The elites of the United States have gone rogue. As with the elites of the rest of the West, America’s elites seek to impose a kind of neo-feudalism on its … Read More
Tag: Government Regulation
Concerns the effects of government regulations on the economy.
How Much Human Freedom Can We Find in the World?
Is the world becoming a less free place for human beings? Just how much human freedom can we find in each of the world’s countries? I suspect many people would … Read More
The U.S. Economy, April 2021
I have just updated the leading and coincident economic indicators I am following, the first update I have done in a year. The last year has been extremely crazy economically. Every time I thought about … Read More
What America’s Jacobins Would like to Do
The picture above epitomizes what the American Left would like to do to American society. Their antipathy to President Trump and the Republicans was generated by their overweening desire to … Read More
The Problems with the Coronavirus Aid Package
Recently, Congress passed and the President signed the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, which also is called the CARES Act. It was designed to rescue the financial lives … Read More
Coronavirus Impact on the U.S.
The world has completely changed in less than half a year. Because of an irresponsible Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese coronavirus (COVID-19, also known as the Wuhan virus) has been … Read More
What We Will Fight Over In the 2020 Campaign
It has only been a few months since the end of the 2018 U.S. campaign season. Nevertheless, we can already see what we will fight over in the 2020 campaign. … Read More
Individual Rights Versus Collective Responsibilities
On the Left, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, advocates for collective responsibilities. Wikimedia Commons / Friedrich Karl Wunder and George Lester On the Right, John Locke, champion for individual rights. … Read More
American Economic Conditions Building Up Steam!
The Bulls of the market are getting set to charge! Photo Credit: Charging Bull — NYC via photopin (license)/ Sam Valadi The first estimate for fourth quarter 2017 U.S. GDP growth, released … Read More
An Out-Of-Control Government Agency
Former CFPB director Richard Cordray testifying before a congressional committee. Screenshot from a Youtube video produced by CNN Money No sooner do I write a post about the dangers of … Read More
A Big Trump Success: Deconstruction of The Regulatory State
President Trump signs executive order in his first 10 days of office to curb government regulations. NBC News / Carlos Barria / Reuters One huge Trump achievement only marginally commented … Read More
Even More Lies Progressives Tell To Themselves!
A progressive regarding the world. Be careful what you buy from him! (c) Can Stock Photo / ezumeimages In my last essay I was only able to cover two of … Read More
U.S. Economy and Stock Markets, November 2017
US real GDP growth from Q1 2009 to Q3 2017. The green line is a linear fit to the GDP over the three years from Q1 2014 to Q1 2017. … Read More
The Unraveling of America
Antifa combatants fighting with Trump supporters at Berkeley, California on August 27, 2017. Youtube screenshot / The Red Elephants The United States of America is unraveling as a society, in … Read More
The Ideological Balkanization of the United States
The red state – blue state division of the United States as revealed by the presidential results of the past four presidential elections. Wikimedia Commons / Angr This week The … Read More
How the Left Would Overthrow the GOP and Donald Trump
Progressives man the barricades the day after Donald J. Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States. Youtube / Ibrahim Ka-Almasih Garba It is not as if Donald J. Trump … Read More
How Is Donald Trump Doing Economically in June 2017?
The time evolution of the Atlanta Federal Reserve Bank’s GDPNow forecast for the second quarter of 2017. Image and Data Credit: Atlanta Federal Reserve District Bank / Center for Quantitative … Read More
Information Sources For Our Hive Mind
The classic, arduous. time-consuming, and expensive way to access information! A photo of a part of my library A few days ago, I asked the question “How Can So Many See … Read More
The Ideological Nature of Authoritarian Government
Josef Stalin and Adolf Hitler: One dictator of the Left and one of the Right? Photo Credit Stalin: Wikimedia Commons / Workers Library Publishers (1930) Photo Credit Hitler: Wikimedia Commons … Read More
U.S. Economy and Stock Markets, February 2017
Real U.S. Per capita GDP in chained 2009 dollars (blue curve) and its percent change year over year (maroon curve). The thick green line is a linear fit of the … Read More
The Trump Era Begins
President Donald J. Trump delivering his inaugural address, January 20, 2017 Screenshot of ABC News broadcast Uncompromising. That was the major tone of Donald Trump’s inaugural address on the west … Read More
Obama’s Seizure of Legislative Power
President Obama negotiating with congressional leaders in November 2012 during the fiscal cliff debate Wikimedia Commons / Voice of America This is a story about how the Democratic Party became … Read More
The Progressives’ War On the Separation of Powers
Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, 18 January 1689-10 February 1755 Wikimedia Commons / Currently at the Palace of Versailles In my last two posts, I … Read More
The Dodd-Frank Act: A Giant Stride Along the Road To Serfdom
Sen. Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) Wikimedia Commons / United States Congress, Wikimedia Commons / United States Congress In my last post, I wrote of how federal … Read More
How a Democracy Evolves Into Fascism
The Robert F. Kennedy Building in 2006, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Justice. DOJ’s Operation Choke Point is an important case study in how democracies can evolve toward … Read More
Dirigisme No Longer Works. What Replaces It?
Line of shoppers in front of a Polish shop in the 1980s. A common sight in Warsaw pact countries ruled by communism. Wikimedia Commons Actually, dirigisme as a way of … Read More
Trump’s Antidote to the Progressive Infection
The first three progressive presidents: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons / Pach Brothers , Wikimedia Commons / George Grantham Bain , and Wikimedia Commons / Harris … Read More
Get Ready For the Real Revolution!
President-Elect Donald Trump conversing with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office, November 10, 2016 Wikimedia Commons / Pete Souza The shell-shocked mass media and progressive pundits still are having … Read More
Obama Has Not Produced An Economic Recovery
Plot of annual Real U.S. GDP per capita growth in percent averaged over ten year periods The Gallup Organization Despite all the parroting by much of the media, Obama has … Read More
President Trump Faces a Divided People
Donald Trump giving his victory speech early this morning YouTube / RT.com Donald J. Trump’s victory yesterday to become the President-elect of the United States is a fitting surprise for … Read More