You may know the name Mike Rowe from his apprentice work on his television show “Dirty Jobs” or his witty, on the money guest appearances, on The Tucker Carlson Show. Mike Rowe is a busy guy. His foundation, the Mike Rowe Works Foundation is “a public charity that rewards people with a passion to get […]
Obama’s First Term: 9.3 Million Families Lost Their Homes
Writing at The American Conservative, Telly Davidson, author of Culture War: How the 90’s Made Us Who We Are Today (Like it Or Not), explains the economic destruction wrought from 2008 on through the Obama administration, which was filled with braindead elites held over from the George W. Bush administration or resurrected from the Clinton administration. The […]
Kessler: The Fed Failed in 2008, It’s Failing Now
In a Wall Street Journal piece focused on an interview with Bryan Marsal, the CEO of Lehman during its bankruptcy, Andy Kessler lays out his view of the personal and political failures that led to the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and explains that despite a decade of time in which to examine the failures of […]
Economic Growth Stronger than Expected
President Trump’s cutting the federal corporate income tax rate from 35% to 21% is working better than reported earlier, writes James Freeman in the WSJ. The theory behind the December law, based on numerous studies conducted over a decade by current Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers Kevin Hassett and others, was […]
Fix Income Disparity: Ship the Wealthy to Venezuela
Originally posted on April 17, 2018. Is income inequality in the U.S. a “staggering problem” and, as President Obama called it in 2014, the “defining challenge of our time,” asks Francis Menton in the Manhattan Contrarian. For me, I say it all depends on how you look at the world. If you want to look at […]
Stephen Moore: “America is Open for Tourism”
Stephen Moore, writing in The American Spectator, suggests that an easy way for America to lower its trade deficit would be to encourage tourism. He writes: When it comes to commerce, Trump has emerged as a highly effective one-man Chamber of Commerce selling America to investors. He has announced to the world that America is […]
Thinking of Moving for Retirement? Check This Out
Guess who needs the most of your dollars to survive? You guessed it, Washington D.C. If you’re a retiree who has been living and working in Washington D.C. for your entire career, you would without a doubt stretch your dollars further if you moved to a less expensive locale. Washington D.C. is the most expensive […]
Trump Bump: GDP Could Hit 4%
I’ve always liked Larry Kudlow, both during his time on CNBC, and now as Trump’s top economic adviser. His enthusiasm is contagious. I like his optimism for the economy here. Renae Reints reports on the interview for Fortune: In an interview with CNBC Wednesday, Kudlow seemed optimistic for the U.S. economy despite the current trade war. “We […]
Price Controls: Bad Economics and Fuel for Instability
Basic economics dispels the idea that price controls are useful. Nevertheless governments (including America’s) regularly try to control prices. Whether via direct price caps and floors, or quota systems, or through inflation or deflation of the money supply, government attempts to control prices are distortive to markets, and eventually lead to some kind of backlash. […]
Industrial Production Soars under Trump
Under President Donald Trump, America’s industrial production has rebounded from the disastrous Obama years.
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