John Jiang reports in The American Spectator on Sen. Josh Hawley’s frightening “analysis of the U.S.–China strategic situation.” He writes (abridged): Watching the news nowadays, it seems clear that a massive new set of political fault lines are opening up both in Washington and abroad, centered on the issue of the U.S.’s relationship with China. […]
“The Losses are Taking a Toll on Their Health”
Coronavirus Infects Stock Market: Part LI “You know what’s crazy,” a client told me yesterday, “is that investors spend more time buying a grill than picking a financial planner.” Friends of his are in deep financial trouble. The virus has made it even worse, and the losses are taking a toll on their health. Another […]
Richard Feynman Solved the Space Shuttle Disaster Mystery
I have read all of Feynman’s books linked below and consider Richard Feynman to be America’s greatest scientific treasure. Paul Halpern tells readers: Richard Feynman was an enigmatic genius, full of contradictions, who made extraordinary science look magically easy. Feynman was an art-lover and amateur painter, and one of his monumental achievements, expressing particle physics […]
Gold/Silver Coins No Longer Allowed in Safe Deposit Boxes
A son of long-time subscribers to Richard C. Young’s Intelligence Report emailed me last week about a letter his parents had received from their bank branch. Not a phone call to set up a meeting, a letter. According to him, the bank sent the letter to his parents stating that no gold or silver would […]
Does Big Government Create Poverty?
Perhaps the best thing about suggestions by candidates like Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren to a welfare model closer to those seen in Europe is that there are years of evidence about what that could mean for Americans. Despite the candidates’ cherry-picking of old and debunked data, there is a lot of evidence in Europe […]
751 “No-Go” Zones in France
Originally posted February 24, 2015. In a recent Washington Post interview, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo was asked, “You said you were going to sue Fox News over its allegations that there are “no-go” zones in France—areas where only Muslims can go. Aren’t there places in Paris where people are afraid to go?” Mayor Hidalgo responded, […]
Soros’s Open Society Foundation, Charles Koch Team Up
Daniel Larison of The American Conservative writes (abridged): Stephen Kinzer comments on the creation of a new think tank, The Quincy Institute, committed to promoting a foreign policy of restraint and non-interventionism: Kinzer tells readers that “Since peaceful foreign policy was a founding principle of the United States, it’s appropriate that the name of this […]
Protection While Traveling in France
I do not travel without personal defense preparation. Ever. Over two decades and 100,000 miles on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle, thousands of miles traveling between Key West and Newport, and thousands more miles of international travel over the last decade, I’ve learned a lot of lessons. Be aware at all times of your environment. Sounds simple, […]
Your Odds with Statins: 500 to 1?
Originally posted October 5, 2011. If you are considering a drug such as a statin, do you and your family know about the “number needed to treat” (NNT)? I’ve been looking into NNT and found a Businessweek article from January 17, 2008 that explains the concept well. Basically, NNT is the number of patients who […]
The Common Ground of Democracy is Sinking Beneath Americans’ Feet
In the United States and across the globe people are struggling with forms of democracy which either don’t represent their interests or are completely gridlocked by partisanship. At The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan explains that democracy has lost its luster. Around the world, purer forms of democracy are giving way to more autocratic replacements. Pat […]
