At Politico, Jeff Greenfield explains what he calls “The Land Mine that Just Got Laid for Elizabeth Warren.” Greenfield is referring to former congressman John Delaney’s revelation that Medicare for all would bankrupt every hospital in America. Warren, as well as Mayor Bill De Blasio, Sen. Kamala Harris, and Sen. Bernie Sanders have all endorsed […]
Archives for June 2019
Democrats Continue the Drinking Game
For the second series of the Democrats’ debate, you are forgiven if you are hungover from the previous night, continues Caroline McCarthy. Furthermore, no one is going to judge, she promises, if you have a drink before the whole thing begins. Here’s how the game works for debate #2: Take a sip of your drink […]
Living Your Best Life: FIRE! (Part I)
Are you familiar with the FIRE movement? You should be, and you will be shortly. And I’m not talking about a fire where, for example, a tree falls in your backyard onto power lines, ripping them down along with a transformer and nearly burning down your house on a quiet afternoon in Newport, RI. (You […]
Old Joe, Just Living in the Past?
The Democratic debate last night in Miami wasn’t great for Joe Biden. Ed Kilgore explains how Biden was subject to many attacks on his vulnerabilities. Perhaps the most poignant was from Sen. Kamala Harris (watch the video below). Kilgore writes in New York Magazine’s Intelligencer (abridged): One bad debate performance is by no means a […]
Sanders Proposes Abolishing Private Insurance, Increasing Payroll Taxes
Bernie Sanders has a plan; it costs $2.5 trillion a year, and puts Americans’ life or death decisions in the hands of unelected bureaucrats in Washington D.C. Sound good so far? Matt Stevens of The New York Times explains some of the details of Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for All,” plan: Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont […]
This Democrat Supports a Trump 2016 Foreign Policy
During the first night of the Democratic debates, one Democrat stood out for her strong anti-war stance. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard’s views remind Pat Buchanan of those expressed by then-candidate Trump in 2016. Pat writes (abridged): “For too long our leaders have failed us, taking us into one regime change war after the next, leading us […]
Are You Setting Yourself Up for a Retirement Disaster?
In 1999, most equity investors thought they couldn’t go wrong. Anything they bought simply gained in value. Easy, right? Not so fast. Soon, many Americans were facing a retirement disaster of their own creation. In July of 2004 I wrote: You’ve Lost 37%… Treasuries are boring! Right? You may be in the boring, boring camp, […]
The Fed, Taking from Savers Giving to Speculators
Originally posted on April 10, 2019. In The American Conservative, author and investment banker Christopher Whalen, takes aim at the Federal Reserve, saying that the President is right to have nominated critical outsiders to the Federal Reserve board of governors. Both of Trump’s nominees, businessman and former presidential candidate Herman Cain, and political economist Stephen […]
Let ‘Em All in Say Progressive Liberal Democrats
If you were watching last night’s debate, you may have noticed a similar theme running through the candidates’ answers in regards to immigration: let them in. Not only did a good number of the candidates attempt to speak to America’s Spanish speaking population in Spanish, they also expressed their preference for much weakened border controls. […]
The Debate – Pathetic, Amusing, Surreal
You almost have to feel sorry for the Democrats. Last night, a mere 10 of the presidential candidates subjected viewers to a “debate” in which nothing was debated. As Roger Kimball points out, last night had nothing to do with a debate. It was an exhibition — partly pathetic, partly amusing in a surreal sort […]
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