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The Stock Market Is Just One Hedge Fund Blowup Away from a Crash. Here’s the Ugly Math.
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12 Myths Fueling Government Overreach in Times of Crisis
Congress and the president have adopted many critically important policies in great haste during brief periods of perceived national emergency. During the first “hundred days” of the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration in the spring of 1933, for example, the government abandoned the gold standard, enacted a system of wide-ranging controls, taxes, and subsidies in agriculture, and set in motion a plan to cartelize the nation’s manufacturing industries. In 2001, the USA PATRIOT Act was enacted in a rush even though no member of Congress had read it in its entirety. Since September 2008, the government and the Federal Reserve System … Continue reading →
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The Green New Deal Will Iympoverish America
‘The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all… Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.’ So said Saikat Chakrabarti, former chief of staff for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and generally acknowledged author of the Green New Deal. Sometimes it is wise to find out what ideas’ originators actually think. That is true for documents that have lit up our lives, such as the US Constitution, as well as for those that have darkened them, such as Mein Kampf. This is true as well … Continue reading →
Race-Baiters Have Incited More Violence Than Trump Ever Did
When you can convince people racism is rampant, you ignite a flame of division and destruction that only ends with bodies on the ground and cities leveled.
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