Lists of outrageous anecdotal items provide color about the waste that is rampant in the Federal government. But they have nothing to do with the fact-based analysis and philosophical U-turns that will be required to complete the DOGE mission successfully.
America’s Fiscal Doomsday Machine Must Be Stopped Continue Reading
Some of our fellows, writers, and scholars have made some recommendations for insightful books that can help frame up some of the complexities of our time. They don’t explain everything but they can surely help us toward greater understanding.
What Should We Be Reading? Continue Reading
The current raging California fires are largely a function of misguided government policies. Officials have essentially curtailed the supply of water available to firefighters, even as they have increased the supply of combustible kindling and vegetation which feeds these wildfires.
Wildfires and the Hoary Hoax of a Burning Planet Continue Reading
“Temporary” programs in Canada and America rarely benefit their existing populaces. Here’s hoping the incoming Trump administration takes heed of Canada’s abject failure to rein in its permanent “temporary” population and reins in the policies that impoverish the native citizenry.
H-1B Visas: A Lesson from Canada Continue Reading
An Auburn University study says every single regulator destroys fully 158 private sector jobs every year you keep him on the job. With nearly 300,000 federal regulators, the shock is that we still have any jobs at all.
Every Bureaucrat Destroys 138 Jobs Continue Reading
It’s been a very long journey lasting nearly five years, but here we are, the man who led the opposition to the worst-imaginable public health policies now in a position to make sure that nothing like this ever happens again.
The “Let It Rip” Canard: Reflections on Jay Bhattacharya Continue Reading
The EU and European nations should work on establishing a relationship with the new leadership in the White House and on Capitol Hill so as to be able to influence the outcome of the greatest geopolitical upheaval of our time.
Europe Sleepwalks into Irrelevance as the U.S. Ascends Continue Reading
A goal of $2 trillion of budget savings is crucial to the future of Constitutional democracy and capitalist prosperity in America. The Federal budget threatens to become a self-fueling financial doomsday machine. So more power to Musk and Ramaswamy.
How to Cut $2 Trillion of Fat from the Federal Budget Continue Reading
We live in a world where every human need—money, food, health, education, and even information—is controlled and manipulated by artificial systems. This matrix of artifice began with central bankers creating fiat currency: declaring something’s value and creating dependency.
Fiat Everything: When Decree Replaced Reality Continue Reading
Notwithstanding its shortcomings, a revenue tariff is a start in the right direction. Trump’s bold stance in favor of taxing consumption rather than income and requiring all households to bear the cost of government is superior to the status quo.
Trump’s 19th-Century Solution to Fiscal Disaster Continue Reading
The neo-liberal consensus built in the postwar period contained the seeds of its own destruction. It was too dependent on the creation of institutions beyond people’s control and too reliant on elite mastery of events.
The Neo-Liberal Consensus Is Coming Apart Continue Reading
For better or worse, authoritarianism has happened many times in history — it’s kind of the human default. The original state.
They Have the Money, We Have the Numbers Continue Reading
