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Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over five decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.

Delicious, Simple, Clean and Healthful

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Are you looking to get off to a nutritious, healthful start in the New Year? In many of the world’s traditional cuisines, the most important piece of equipment in the kitchen is the stockpot. A good stock, containing the minerals of bones, cartilage, marrow and vegetables, is easy to digest and assimilate. According to Nourishing […]

2015—Optimism and Hope?

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The November election (anti Obama) helped put “peppery” Boone Pickens in an “upbeat” mood, until, as Mr. Pickens notes, “then the goofball says ‘65% didn’t vote and those are the ones I represent!’ ” BP was worried that America had lost itself, but he is more optimistic now because we have “only another year of […]

Christmas in Flanders Fields

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This past weekend, Dick and I went to Symphony Hall with two of our grandchildren to enjoy the Boston Pops. Among the highlights of the festive holiday performance was a reading by Karen MacDonald of A Soldier’s Carol: The Christmas Truce of 1914. Through a combination of music and story, the nine-minute narration recreated the […]

Vermont—the Canary in the O’Care Coal Mine

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Dick and I have spent untold miles on our Harleys riding in pastoral Vermont—still largely covered by verdant forest—with its scenic roads, quaint villages, acres of rolling farmlands and apple orchards, covered bridges, and views minus billboards (yes, there are no billboards). Combine this with Vermont’s charming inns and enthusiastic farm-to-table movement, and you have […]

People Will Die

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Will the Supreme Court justices “twist themselves into John Roberts-like pretzels” to avoid upending Obama’s signature legislative accomplishment, asks Cato Institute’s Michael Tanner. Next spring the Court will rule on whether subsidies for Obamacare are to be allowed, and, in anticipation of the ruling, the hysteria is already beginning. Should the justices rule to uphold […]

Confiscating Wealth and Controlling Income

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Originally posted November 25, 2014. Why is inequality a symptom of economic problems? Should any of us care if some people get rich and others get even richer? Wouldn’t a more distressing problem be if we all became poorer? John H. Cochrane, professor of finance at the University of Chicago and an adjunct scholar at […]

Who Is that Masked Man?

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“Riding herd on cronyists who give capitalism a bad name by giving or taking special government favors” is what Texas Rep. Jeb Hensarling does best. Mr. Hensarling has spent the last decade trying to stop cronyism in government programs that grease the palms of well-connected business elites. With K Street lobbyists about to put enormous […]

Lights Out!

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How would you like to flick on your wall switch, only to find out you have no juice? The good news? Thanks to Obama’s Clean Power Plan, the nationwide cost for electricity could rise a staggering 12% to 17% over 15 years. The bad news? Thanks to Obama’s Clean Power Plan, you might not be […]

“Stupid Is as Stupid Does”

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The MIT economist Jonathan Gruber–lovable bumpkin that he is–apologized before Congress for being glib and arrogant, but “his response to substantive questions suggested that he is mainly sorry for getting caught on tape.” Read more from the WSJ here. Maybe it’s easier to get tenure at MIT than we thought. At least that’s our reaction […]

“Why the Hell Would He Say That?”

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Jonathan Gruber, the MIT economist, an “architect” of Obamacare, and the guy who stepped on so many land mines in his now famous videos, has an upcoming new role. Mr. Gruber is going to Capital Hill on Tuesday as a congressional witness to answer questions about all those things he said, like the “lack of […]