Donald Trump’s most egregious gaffes are most often ones of exaggeration, like inflating crowd size or pumping up good economic news. Then there are Trump’s absurd uses of adjectives, as Victor Davis Hanson writes, like tremendous, fantastic, incredible, awesome. The media eagerly latches on to Trump’s “perceived crudity” by the president’s “unpresidential promiscuous use of […]
Archives for September 2019
The Battle is on to Replace John Bolton
Can President Trump make a clean break from “Boltonism?” Curt Mills thinks he can, as he explains at The American Conservative. Mills thinks there’s a chance that Trump and Bolton didn’t simply have a personal falling out, but that Trump could make a major policy shift after the ouster of Bolton. He writes (abridged): After […]
They’re Not Getting My Guns
One thing was clear in last night’s Democrat debate. They don’t know guns. And if you own one, they’re coming for it. “Hell, yes we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47,” vowed former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke. They’ll start with your AR-15 (I own a Colt) and then your AK-47 (also in our family). […]
Witness the Raw Power of Diversification
Diversification isn’t only a tool to minimize losses when assets fall in value, it has the power to actually increase your return while lowering risk. Here’s how I explained it in December of 2015 (with the chart and associated text updated to 2017): Calculating the Efficient Frontier You need to look at your asset deployment […]
Here’s the One Word Biden and Warren Didn’t Say All Night
Democrats were forthcoming last night with their pledges to confiscate Americans’ guns and to destroy the healthcare system, but there was one word that Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren couldn’t bring themselves to say in the entire three hours of discussion: Jobs. The two front runners didn’t want to talk about jobs, and it’s no surprise. […]
Somebody Make Trump Read Dr. Perlmutter’s #1 Book
Given the commander in chief’s known penchant for fast and processed food, someone should make him read Dr. Perlmutter’s #1 book Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar–Your Brain’s Silent Killers. The description of the book reads: When Grain Brain was published in 2013, Dr. Perlmutter kick-started a revolution. Since then, his book has been […]
Trump Cannot Replace Bolton from Bush and McCain Teams
At The American Conservative, W. James Antle, III tells readers that if President Trump wants to achieve the America First foreign policy he campaigned on and that Americans voted for, he cannot recruit a replacement for John Bolton from the Bush/McCain faction of the GOP. Trump’s choice, explains Antle, is either “chart a different course […]
The High Cost of Replacing Trump
The Democrats’ promised Green New Deal could potentially cost tens of trillions of dollars, according to Andy Laperriere, reports the WSJ. Andy Laperriere of Cornerstone Macro informs clients, “The cost of new regulations is down more than 80% since Trump took office, which amounts to close to $100 billion less — each year — in the cost […]
R.I.P. T.Boone Pickens “A True Original”
T. Boone Pickens, an oil man, investor, and sometime activist, passed away yesterday at 91. Pickens was a true original, whose character was completely unique. The Washington Examiner describes his life here: A swashbuckling character who was known as a hostile takeover specialist but also an advocate for shareholders, he was always ready with a […]
Trump’s Plan to Finally Privatize the Mortgage Industry
Since the financial crisis, mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been languishing on the federal government’s balance sheet. The two federally backed mortgage securitization companies were taken into government conservatorship in 2008. Now, Federal Housing Finance Agency director Mark Calabria has been tasked with the almost impossible task of reprivatizing them. I know […]
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