West Palm Beach, FL — Jury duty, like voting, is considered by many Americans as one’s civic duty. But as one young man from Florida would learn, jury duty is anything but voluntary. He overslept, missed jury duty, and a judge threw the book at him, sentencing him to...
As 2018 came to an end, politicians and media pundits insisted that " gun violence " was growing and hitting crisis levels . While a homicide rate of anything greater than zero is an measure of very-real human misery, it nonetheless turns out that fewer people were...
Since September 17, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has pumped billions of dollars into the repurchasing (repo) market, the first such intervention since 2009. The Fed has announced that it will continue to inject as much as 75 billion dollars a day into the repo...
Ever since the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, it has been an article of faith that Americans should thank the troops for their service in those two countries. Yet, with the exception of libertarians and few leftists, the fact is that during the two decades of...
Amidst the brouhaha surrounding the impeachment inquiry, where the US government and citizens will be challenged to determine whether Joe Biden or Donald Trump is more corrupt, an issue deserving of far more attention by the American public is brushed to the wayside. ...
The Federal Reserve just lowered interest rates for the second time this year and announced more quantitative easing by injecting even more U.S. dollars into the market. The days of cheap money will soon come to an end, and I fear that many people won’t realize what’s...
On August 11, 2019, the presidential ticket of Alberto Fernández and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner pulled off a major electoral upset against incumbent President Mauricio Marci in the Argentine primary elections. Based on their performance last month, they’ll be able...
As an outsider, I had found the ritual of US presidential elections to be fascinating, a helpless voyeur watching how the ebb and flow of war and peace may unfold for the coming years. By that time, I had lost interest in voting, I had become cynical and jaded wary...
