Francis Menton of the Manhattan Contrarian would have liked to have asked President Obama and Mitt Romney the following questions before the last presidential election. Asking these questions of the upcoming presidential candidates might prove useful to voters. Do you think that the Federal government has an infinite ability to borrow without causing damage to […]
Archives for July 2016
Buchanan: “White America Has Begun to Die”
Pat Buchanan supports the logic behind most Americans, and obviously the Brits and France’s Front National, impulse to defend their borders and the concept of Nationalism over Globalism. Pat makes it clear that in the U.S. it is Donald Trump who has captured the desire by Americans to retain the national identity delivered to American […]
Trump, like Reagan, a Lincoln Republican on Trade
As you know, some of the best intelligence comes from unexpected places. Recently my client Khushro Ghandhi and I were talking about politics and the market. To say I get an education every time I speak with him would be an understatement, as you’ll soon see. One day, to make his point he said to me […]
Clinton’s Support for Military Intervention
The American Conservative lays bare Hillary’s War Dog pedigree and the military/industrial complex spending trough. WASHINGTON—Like all special interests in the nation’s capital, the defense industry is spending millions of dollars this election season to ensure a front-row spot at the federal trough—and in the case of the most powerful military-industrial contractors, a chance to […]
Big Money, Big Costs
Great piece by Jason Zweig of the WSJ on the trouble with private equity funds: Trying to get your money out. For years now, big banks and brokerage firms have been urging their wealthiest individual clients to get into private-equity funds. Buying such a prestigious fund can make you feel like a big cheese with […]
Reason: Hillary Clinton vs. James Comey: Email Scandal Supercut
Russian Navy Testing New Advanced Torpedoes
Source: TASS Russian News Agency The Russian Navy is expected to adopt for service the advanced Futlyar deep-water torpedo that is undergoing its state trials now, a source in the defense industry told TASS on Wednesday. According to the source, the Futlyar is an upgraded variant of the Fizik homing torpedo that has entered service […]
Why Donald Trump?
Many conservative groups continue to scold American voters for supporting Donald Trump because Mr. Trump is “an existential threat to conservatism.” As Tucker Carlson noted last January in Politico, voters are being scolded for supporting Trump because it would be bad for conservatism. And who is doing the scolding? Those think-tanks pushing for open borders […]
A New Nationalist Era? Part Two
Carlos Arredondo is an immigrant from Costa Rica whose 20 year old son Alexander was killed in the Iraq War in 2004. When the Marine casualty assistant officers showed up at his home to tell him his son had been killed, Arredondo broke into the Marines’ van and set himself on fire, covering much of […]
“So I Thought I Would Teach Myself About…”
The Newport Daily News had a wonderful feature on Middletown, RI resident, Pete Babcock, whose 42-year career in the NBA culminated in a championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Babcock got his start when he dropped out of law school. “I always was enamored with the NBA, and the Phoenix Suns were a relatively new team,” […]
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