Originally posted on April 10, 2019. In The American Conservative, author and investment banker Christopher Whalen, takes aim at the Federal Reserve, saying that the President is right to have nominated critical outsiders to the Federal Reserve board of governors. Both of Trump’s nominees, businessman and former presidential candidate Herman Cain, and political economist Stephen […]
Can America Ever End the Fed?
Originally posted on July 26, 2017. After having elected the current “disrupter in chief,” you might be under the impression that no changes to government are off the table. President Trump has shown that he’s willing to break tradition time and time again. But there’s one place where Trump looks ready to move forward hand-in-hand […]
Vance Returns to Ohio to Create New VC Opportunities
You may recognize the name J.D. Vance from his bestselling book Hillbilly Elegy which I wrote about in the “Trump’s Great White Wall” series (Read Parts I, II, III, and IV). In the book you see how he made himself into a success. Vance worked for Peter Thiel’s Mithril Capital and is now moving back […]
Do You Live in one of America’s 25 Best Small Towns?
Decades of riding Harleys along America’s back roads has taken Debbie and me to some of the best (and worst) places you can find in this country. Small town Main Streets, with flags hung on front porches where hard working citizens sit on rocking chairs enjoying their freedom are a staple of the American Dream. […]
Yay, Yay Claude Monet, Part II
Did you make it to Sotheby’s or Christie’s for the auctions? No? Well, in case you haven’t noticed, it was a big week in the art world. Claude Monet’s “Haystacks” sold for $110 million—a record for his work and for any impressionist—and Jeff Koons’ sculpture “Rabbit” went for $91 million—a record for a living artist. […]
Millennials Broke and Disillusioned
In The American Conservative, Charles F. McElwee III, details the plight of America’s Millennials. Loaded with debt, chronically underemployed, and with low prospects, the generation could become lost if policy isn’t modified to push them forward. He writes (abridged): What does the future hold for Millennials? They are renters and borrowers, not owners. They live […]
America Must Decentralize its Political and Economic Power
The executive director of The American Conservative magazine, John A. Burtka IV explains in The Washington Post that “In the long run, both the conservative movement and Republican Party will be better off for having had Donald Trump shatter the combination of neo-conservatism and Reaganism that held the political right captive and blinded since the […]
How Obama Shackled a Healthy Economy
How did the U.S. economy go from an OK condition in January 2017 to an intense, nationwide labor shortage and rising wages less than 18 months later? Daniel Henninger in the WSJ answers his own question – it lies in deciphering the effects of the Trump administration’s abrupt unwinding of the Obama era’s economic regulations. […]
Socialism: “A Pseudo-Religion Grounded in Pseudo Science”
At The American Spectator, Lee Edwards, a distinguished fellow at The Heritage Foundation, sets the record straight on socialism. Edwards rightly views the warm-thoughts of America’s young-adults towards socialism as a danger, and attempts to dispel some of the false ideas that have crept up around the world’s deadliest social and economic philosophy. He writes […]
Barack Obama: “That Was Me, People”
America’s prosperity revival has room to run, James Freeman writes the WSJ. But Mr. Freeman warns, the prudent man should always look out for the end of a cycle. How to tell? We’ll know it’s really over when the former President stops pretending it’s his economy. From Jack Crowe at National Review: Former President Barack […]
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