How Many of Those 81,283,501 People Who Voted for Joe Biden Would Have Done So If They’d Known They’d Be Five Percent Poorer in Two Years?

You may have heard the supposedly good news: the year-over-year inflation rate declined to 7.1%: Consumer prices rose last month at the slowest 12-month pace since December 2021, closing out a year in which inflation hit the highest level in four decades and challenged the Federal Reserve’s ability to keep the U.S. economy on track. The Labor …

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The World in Turmoil

Anyone paying attention to the news knows there is great turmoil throughout the world.  It is not just here in the USA.  It has accelerated since the 2020 election and now seems to have a life of its own. Why is this happening, especially when it is self-inflicted?  Instead of building, we are tearing down. …

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Dystopia. Never Mind.

  Merriam Webster: Dystopia – an imaginary place where people are unhappy and usually afraid because they are not treated fairly         We were told after the 2020 election that we would be going back to “normal”, whatever that means. That working class, aw shucks, middle class, Amtrak Joe was going to …

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Joe Biden’s Curious Love Affair with China

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Most Americans would prefer to think of China as a friendly nation with a different political and economic perspective of the world. That’s certainly how the current occupant of the White House sees China—at least, that is what he says publicly. Privately, he may have other reasons for viewing China and its autocratic leader, Xi …

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The Plague of Government Unions

It was actually a minor line in an article by Robert Stacy McCain about Democrats not accepting election results that didn’t go their way, but one I found very important: Government employee unions are a conspiracy against taxpayers, and when the people of Wisconsin elected (Scott) Walker to fight these unions, Democrats refused to accept …

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The Fed Finally Admits It: They Don’t Know What They Are Doing!

The Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors once again raises interest rates to try to fight inflation, but they’ve admitted what people who pay attention to economics already knew: the Board don’t really know what they are doing, or what effects their decisions will have. From The Wall Street Journal: Fed Approves Fourth 0.75-Point Rate Rise, …

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Ukraine Exposes China’s Green Lies

Ukraine Exposes China’s Green Lies; Carbon Neutrality is a Chinese Pipedream The 2015 Paris Agreement pushed communist China into a corner to some degree. While other nations grandly announced their nationally determined contributions to reducing greenhouse gases, China demurred on specifics until near the end of the time allotted for countries to develop their plans. The …

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Are There Any Adults in the White House?

We have previously noted that the oil production cut by OPEC+ was primarily engineered by Russia and Saudi Arabia, and that President Biden’s statements condemning Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s de facto ruler, might not have exactly persuaded that nation to work charitably with the United States. Now, from Business Insider: The …

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