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Panic Along the Potomac
Stock MarketThere is a curse. They say: may you live in interesting times. Read More
Let’s Look at a Long Twilight
TrumpTry again, I’ve gotten much better at detecting your bullshit. – Alexandra Bracken, In the Afterlight (2014) Far be it from me to defend Barack Obama’s tax, spend, borrow, and print policies. Read More
Today’s Monetary Policy: Satire, Riddle, or Joke?
EconomyAll the light had fallen away from the world, with only the fog illuminated now. Read More
The Acela Corridor and Its Fantastic Morality
Washington DCIt’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Read More
Pandemic and Impeachment and Liquidity and Disaster
Trump“And, still, the entire Acela Corridor’s ruling elite – from Imperial Washington to Wall Street – seems euthanized to the developing calamity over which they preside. Read More
The Duopoly Is Real
EconomyOne of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. Read More
We’ve Got to Get Ahold of Ourselves
Stock MarketMen, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. Read More
There’s “Dumb,” There’s “Neocon,” and There’s the Donald
Trump“…that old Beach Boys song, ‘Bomb Iran,’… ‘Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb…’ anyway, ah…” – Senator John McCain, responding to an audience question about military action against Iran during an April 17, 2007, campaign appearance in Read More
The Spirit of Ronald Reagan
Washington DCMerry Christmas, Season’s Greetings, and Happy New Year. Read More
Crossing the Delaware
Washington DCMerry Christmas. Over the next few days, as my holiday “gift,” I’d like to share some reminders of what American leadership can be, via messages tailored for the season by presidents past. Read More