Elon Musk expressed his disappointment in the Trump administrations bill, passed by the House, that avoided an automatic tax increase that would have occurred at the conclusion of 2025 by making permeant the 2017 tax reductions and which increased spending on defense and US border security. Musk mistakenly thinks that…
You’ve probably heard about the turf war between the federal government – Donald Trump – and the state of California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) over who gets to decree “emissions” requirements for motor vehicles sold in California. And not just in California. CARB is a state-level bureaucracy that operates…
In what can be called a victory speech over failed neoconservative foreign policy, President Donald Trump proclaimed the end of 30-some years of existing foreign policy in the Mideast. The ideology dragged the U.S. through pointless wars from Libya to Yemen is now dead. At an investment conference in…
“Let there be loneliness, for where there is loneliness, there is also love, and where there is suffering, there is also joy.” – Clark E. Moustakas, Loneliness As regular readers of this column may know, I like to begin each edition with a story from my life that I hope encapsulates…
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel is back with a message; Europe could be ‘destroyed’ unless they continue to allow millions of ‘non-Europeans’ to flood the bloc. Criticizing Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s migration policy, Merkel told Southwestern Press Forum in Neu-Ulm last week that efforts to secure borders could have catastrophic consequences. “I…
A disappeared think-tank report may be the ultimate clue to the purpose of the Covid vaccines. Last week, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) discussed the official government cover-up of the COVID-19 vaccines at a Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing in the Senate. Johnson explained that he was stonewalled for four…
Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson’s mass media apologia is leaps and bounds more demented than the book’s subject, Joe Biden. I wasn’t going to do it, really. After stepping to the edge of nervous collapse of late, I promised, no more Conventional Wisdom Bestsellers. I saw Abundance in an airport and…
I have worked in capital markets for three decades, and Wall Street has some unflattering names for the retail investor. Dumb Money. Slow Moving Deer. Ray Charles Buyers (Because Ray was blind). In other words, such investors have been the Rodney Dangerfield of investment money. No respect. Still, the…
California’s ruling elites have priced out the middle class, replacing opportunity with oppression under the guise of equity and climate justice. California has declared war on its middle class, and the special interests controlling the state are doing everything they can to impose this punitive economic model on the…
The gross negligence of the Washington GOP with respect to its fundamental duty in the governance process of American democracy—to function as the Watchdog of the US Treasury—seems to know no bounds. Very simply, with current policies fixing to add $22 trillion of baseline deficits over the next decade…
