If You Are an Investor Read This Now! — Dick Young Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part III Stocks have lost close to 2,000 points over the last two days. Futures are up a little this morning as I write to you but that doesn’t mean anything really, which reminds me, the less you dwell on […]
Archives for February 2020
Bloomberg Against Blacks, Latinos, Farmers and Factory Workers.
Rabbi Dov Fischer, Esq. writes: “Whereas Warren and Sanders bear rot at their cores, Michael Bloomberg is different. He plainly is out of touch with humanity, aloof in his own celestial orbit.” He continues (abridged): For law-and-order conservatives outside New York, it was assumed that Bloomberg’s “stop and frisk” was a variation on the “Terry […]
Bernie’s Silver Lining in Cuban Revolution
Despite Bernie Sanders’s penchant for touting Fidel Castro’s massive literacy program in Cuba when Fidel came into office, there are some serious flaws in the Vermont Senator’s thinking, reports the WSJ. Before the 1959 revolution, some 80% of Cuba could read. That put the island’s education level far ahead of most of its Latin American […]
At Least Two Hotels in Austria and Spain Under Lockdown.
Audrey Wilson writes at Foreign Policy (abridged): European epidemic? Italy’s neighbors have so far pledged to keep their borders open, with health ministers calling travel restrictions a “disproportionate and ineffective measure.” Austria, Croatia, France, Spain, and Switzerland have all reported cases, and at least two hotels—in Austria and Spain—are under lockdown to prevent the spread of […]
Sorry Bernie, Cuba is the Best Evidence Against Socialism
Behind the veneer of classic cars and cigar smoke, lies a country in decay. Benny Johnson, the chief creative officer for Turning Point USA, reports in The Federalist: What many do not realize is that 90 percent of the Cuban economy is controlled by their government. Resource scarcity, poverty, horrific living conditions, and oppressive government […]
Trump Transforms Appellate Courts, Takes on Supreme Court Liberals
President Trump has gone on a record-breaking transformation of America’s court system, appointing 51 appellate court judges in just three years. In the LA Times, Maura Dolan reports that there’s nowhere Trump’s impact has been felt more than in the traditionally liberal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. She writes: In few places has the effect […]
Flu: The Devil You Know
Despite a flurry of panic surrounding the COVID-19 coronavirus originating in China recently, the CDC reminds Americans that the common flu is a deadly killer in its own right. The CDC reports: *Because influenza surveillance does not capture all cases of flu that occur in the U.S., CDC provides these estimated ranges to better reflect […]
Sturgis Harley Riders Support Trump
Originally posted on August 12, 2019. Debbie and I put in over 125,000 miles on a succession of Harley-Davidson Road Kings and Heritage Classics. From 1992 through 2017, we spent 25 years crisscrossing the small towns and cities of North America. And twice we made the long pilgrimage to Sturgis, South Dakota for “Bike Week.” […]
Markowicz Calls Out the Hypocrisy of Feminism
At the New York Post, Karol Markowicz calls out the inherent hypocrisy of the modern feminist movement that seeks to simultaneously identify women as the only strong solution to any problem, and as weak victims in every situation. She writes: If you are reading this, consider yourself lucky. For I am a woman, and I […]
Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part II
Yesterday you read that the coronavirus was causing panic in markets, sending stock prices plummeting. Below you can see that, while DJIA stock prices fell 3.54% in yesterday’s turmoil, bond prices (as measured by the Ryan/NASDAQ Laddered Treasury Index) rose 1.05%, a difference of 4.59% over stocks. If you don’t understand the value of bonds, […]
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