The Bad Examples of the ECB and BOJ
Mario Draghi, President of ECB, and Haruhiko Kuroda, Governor of BOJ Photo Credits: Wikimedia Commons/World Economic Forum and Asian Development Bank Now there are two central banks living in Alice’s … Read More
Month: January 2016
An Astonishing Thought About Taxes
photo credit: Taxes – Illustration via photopin (license) This morning I read an astonishing conjecture that something could actually be done this year about the tax burdens hobbling the American … Read More
Federal Budget Deficits to Rise Again in 2016
Budget Stops Growing! (But not for long.) Image Credit: International Liberty It was not supposed to be this way! Federal spending and budget deficits … Read More
Global Cooling May Intensify – Cosmic Rays Increasing
Cosmic ray intensity between March 2015 and January 2016. Image Credit: Spaceweather.com As shown in the plot above, cosmic ray intensity has intensified between March 2015 and January 2016. In … Read More
Big Corporations Abandoning the U.S. at an Increasing Rate
Abandon Ship! Photo Credit: Flickr.com/Just Taken Pics The flow of big corporations abandoning the United States for more friendly business climates is increasing steadily. Some of the … Read More
A Replacement for Keynesian Monetary Policy
How many of these should we make? Image Credit: Freeimages.com/Tracy Olson As the world confronts the smoking ruin of Keynesian monetary policy [see the posts Economic Damage Created … Read More
Libya Becoming Part of the ISIS Caliphate
Libya: A nation being absorbed by the ISIS Caliphate? Map courtesy of Google/Nations Online Project The release of the movie 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi appears to have triggered … Read More
Bernie Sanders Is Probably The Democrats’ Nominee
Hillary Clinton testifying to the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/C-Span It is becoming increasingly apparent that whoever the Democratic Party’s nominee will be, it will not … Read More
A Movie Hillary and the Democrats Should Fear
President Obama and Secretary Clinton honor the Benghazi attack victims at the Transfer of Remains Ceremony held at Andrews Air Force Base on September 14, 2012. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/US … Read More
Saudi Arabia and Israel: A Match Made in Heaven?
Flags of Saudi Arabia and Israel Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Saudi Arabia is suddenly finding itself very isolated and threatened internationally. At one time Saudi … Read More
The Virus that is ISIS
Coalition air strike on ISIS positions in Kobani, Northern Syria, October 2014 Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Voice of America Schuyler Moore has just published a very interesting idea about ISIS in … Read More
What Do Young Americans Believe?
Sir Winston S. Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, 1940 to 1945 and 1951 to 1955 Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Library of Congress/United Nations Information Office “Socialism is the philosophy … Read More
A Legacy Obama May Not Want
U.S. aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Gulf of Oman, Dec. 25, 2015 Photo Credit: U.S.Navy/Mass Communication Spec 3D Class J.M. Tolbert Last October and November the Iranians sent us … Read More
The Hard Work: Cutting Entitlements
FDR quote on Social Security Image Credit: Flickr.com/Donkey Hotey The hardest political job in cutting federal spending – … Read More
Cutting Government Expenditures
Federal government budget considerations (c) Can Stock Photo/robwilson39 I have been promising for some time now, most recently in What to Do About Keynesian Secular Stagnation, to discuss how the … Read More