Bond yields are rising, tech stocks look shaky, emerging market currencies are tanking, and in the midst of the longest bull market in history, September property sales in Manhattan are down 39% compared to 2017, with median sales prices falling 9% during that time. There are some warning signs flashing. What should you be doing […]
It’s Time For Investors to Focus on Treasuries
It’s time for investors to focus on Treasuries. As stocks tumbled 3% yesterday, Sinead Carew wrote at Reuters: NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks tumbled on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 marking its biggest daily decline since Feb. 8, and technology stocks led the losses as rising U.S. Treasury yields sent investors fleeing from risky […]
A Strong Cry for Localism over Democratic Centralism in the World
At The American Conservative, Andrew J. Bacevich (author of America’s War for the Greater Middle East and many more insightful books) lays out the dream of Christopher Lash, who wrote about the exploitation of resources, the family against the factory, and the romantic vision of the individual against the technological vision. The fall of the Berlin […]
Democrats March into November with No Strategy and no Tailwind
Peter van Buren suggests at The American Conservative that Democrats picked the wrong hill to die on in the Kavanaugh fight, the Russia fight, and the fight over Donald Trump’s behavior. He writes: The point of politics is to change people’s minds, not declare your rivals unfit to walk among decent folk. Kavanaugh proved that the […]
Localism: Front Porch Republic’s “Third Way”
Gary Olmstead recently explained the theory of “localism” at The American Conservative. He especially highlights the good work of Front Porch Republic, saying that the group’s take on localism is not the expected curmudgeonly stance, but instead “chronicles a resurgence of municipal activity and empowerment, noting the role technology is taking.” He writes (abridged): People […]
President Trump Can Wipe America’s Streets Clean of MS-13
When he was campaigning for office, President Trump made a promise to the American people to attack violent street gangs like MS-13. He has followed through on that promise with numerous raids on gang members, including one last Thursday that rounded up around 60 members of the MS-13 gang in the Boston area. Philip Marcelo […]
NRA: The Time for Courage is Now
In Sunday’s NRA “story of the week” email, America’s leading gun rights organization told its members that the time for political courage is now. The fight over Brett Kavanaugh was never about what he had or hadn’t done, but what would happen when another constitutional originalist was put on the bench of the highest court […]
Here’s the Investing Advice I’d Give a Professional Athlete
This is the advice I gave professional athletes and my readers twelve years ago about how to make your retirement dollars last a lifetime. I wrote: I advise you regularly to invest only for dividends or interest. I want you to insist on getting paid, as I do. If you want to speculate with a […]
The American Conservative: ‘Seeking to Conserve What was Best about America and the West’
This year The American Conservative turns 15. In a lengthy piece in the May/June issue, Scott McConnell, the magazine’s founding editor, explains its history and purpose. McConnell writes that back in 2002 and 2003, “what passed for conservatism in the United States wasn’t conserving much of anything.” Gung-ho forays into forever wars in the Middle […]
Shouldn’t Christine Blasey Ford and Her Lawyer Be Sued?
Rod Dreher reports in The American Conservative (abridged): Christine Blasey Ford named four people who could corroborate her claim that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a high school party. According to CNN, none of them do. Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge, two of the people named by Ford, deny it. Now: CNN has learned […]
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