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The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

America Must Cease Defending the World

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Patrick J. Buchanan writes (abridged):  The U.S. national debt is now larger than the GDP. Only in 1946, the year after World War II, was U.S. debt a larger share of GDP than today. The questions the U.S. will inevitably face are the ones France faces: At what point does government consumption of the national […]

A Warm Mainstreet Christmas to You All

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I grew up minutes away from Chagrin Falls, perhaps America’s most beautiful Main Street Christmas town. My parents, brother, sister and I drove to my aunt and uncle’s, just off Main Street house, during the Christmas season. I will never forget the warmth and Main Street feel of Chagrin Falls. Here readers are told all […]

President Trump Roars Into 2020 on Fire

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Matthew Continetti of the The Washingon Free Beacon writes (abridged): President Trump ends 2019 in a better position than when he started.  The year began with the swearing in of Nancy Pelosi as speaker of the House. The Mueller probe dragged on. The legislative agenda of Trump’s first two years in office had petered out. […]

Non-Farm Payroll Growth Strongest since January 2019

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The Leading Economic Indicators were flat last month after a full quarter of monthly mini-declines. After a 0.1% pre-revision mini-decline in October, the Coincident Economic Indicators recorded a strong 0.4% pre-revision November. Meanwhile, the Dow has gained over 10,000 points since Trump’s election win. No way the economy is heading for recession at this juncture, […]

Democrats Now Operating from a Base of Fear

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At his blog, Pat Buchanan explains that Democrats are now working from a base of fear. He writes (abridged): Schumer’s plea for new witnesses is an admission that the House’s case for impeaching Trump is inadequate and deficient and could prove wholly noncredible to the American people. After all, if you need more witnesses, you […]

Here’s How I Climbed on the Dividend Bandwagon

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There are few histories as crucial to the course of my life as my awakening to the power of compound interest and the importance of dividends. Since my decision to climb on the dividend bandwagon, I have been an evangelist to hundreds of thousands of paid subscribers, and many more investors beyond. My message has […]

Here’s How Not to Invest for Retirement

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Many of the public sector workers relying on pension funds for their retirement are being milked by exorbitant fees in an opaque fashion. Anne Tergesen and Gretchen Morgenson report at the Wall Street Journal: The pitch from the president of the Indian River County teachers union couldn’t have been clearer. Liz Cannon, who heads the […]

American Revolution Not About Equality of All Men

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Pat Buchanan explains at his personal blog that “It is solemnly declared today that our Revolution was about ideas, such as the equality of all men. But the author of the Declaration did not believe in equality.” He writes (abridged): Fresh from his triumphal “Get Brexit Done!” campaign, Prime Minister Boris Johnson anticipates a swift […]

Could the Senate Put Hunter Biden on the Stand? Or Volodymyr Zelensky?

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At The American Spectator, Scott McKay suggests that President Trump should be entitled to a serious defense, and he ought to be allowed to call any witnesses he chooses to the trial. On the list of potential witnesses McKay suggests, are Hunter Biden, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. He writes (abridged): Sometime this week — […]