On February 10 the stock markets were at all-time highs, with the Dow 30 at almost 30,000. The unemployment rate was at an all-time low and interest rates around most of the world were at all-time lows. With interest rates near zero for an entire decade, the value of...
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News Roundup 4/17/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 17, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Over 5 million people filed for unemployment this week. Some experts are predicting 20% unemployment by the end of April. [Link] CNN attacked Elon Musk for failing to donate 1,000 ventilators he promised to donate. Musk hit back with proof he did send the...
David Stockman: Off The Charts!
by Scott Horton | Apr 10, 2020 | Blog
From the Contracorner (paywall): It took 213 years and 43 presidents—-from George Washington to Dubya Bush—- to generate the first $6 trillion of public debt. Now a mad man in the Oval Office and a herd of Capitol Hill larcenists will be doing it in just 700 days....
Jobless claims soar again in early April as coronavirus layoffs swell to nearly 17 million
by Steven Woskow | Apr 9, 2020 | Blog
From Marketwatch The coronavirus has turned life upside down in the blink of an eye. Just a month ago, new claims were in the low 200,000s and sat near a half-century low. Already, the ranks of the unemployed appear to have exceeded the prior record of 15.3 million...
How the CARES Act Will Delay Economic Recovery
by Bradley Thomas | Apr 8, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles
The economic fallout of the government’s shutdown in response to the coronavirus pandemic has been unprecedented. Nearly ten million people have filed for unemployment benefits in just two weeks. The 6.6 million claims from the last week of March doubled the previous...
Judicial Engagement & National Emergencies
by Adam Shelton | Apr 7, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles, Justice
A Curious Quote & A Historical Lesson “We repeat what was stated in Block v. Hirsh, as to the respect due to a declaration of this kind [an emergency] by the Legislature so far as it relates to present facts. But even as to them a Court is not at liberty to shut...
Less Driving Amid Outbreak is Hurting Red Light Camera Revenue — Which is Great
by Matt Agorist | Apr 6, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles, Justice
Since states began locking down in mid-March, unemployment has skyrocketed, businesses have shuttered their doors, and these uncertain times have grown more worrisome by the day. There is one industry that is hurting, however, that shouldn’t bother many of us and that...
News Roundup 4/3/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 3, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Over 6.6 Americans filed for unemployment this week. That is nearly double last week’s record-setting number. New York City police are arresting people for failing to social distance. Once arrested, they are put in a holding cell with dozens of other people....
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Language, Race, and Man
“Man belongs neither to his language nor to his race; he belongs to himself.” --Ernest Renan
The Frigate Follies Get Worse and Worse
Déjà vu, it's happening again. The surface navy failures manifested in the Littoral Combat Ship, the Zumwalt and the USS Ford will soon have another ship to add to that gallery of maritime incompetence that showcases the modern US Navy. I say again, construction...
Democracy and Free Stuff
Democracy: the matching up of people who want free stuff with politicians who promise free stuff. Problem: free stuff as they all imagine it does not exist. However, it does exist in the market, as explained by Frédéric Bastiat in Economic Harmonies, chapter 8,...
They Kept Sending Us Bombs…Anti-War Blog
As I saw the photos of US politician Nikki Haley scribbling on an Israeli shell bound for Rafah, it’s metal splinters and high explosives likely to rip a small child too pieces, it had me thinking. I once saw a clip of a US Air Force man who was asked why they were...
Frigate Failure Follies
I am currently doing a podcast series on what appears to be a droll subject but it is critical to getting big projects right. If you can't articulate and create a rational and effective Concept of Operations, you will fail. Th Navy never disappoints in failure lately....
History and Peace
"[E]very person must take his life and every nation must take its history as it comes; nothing is more useless than complaining over errors that can no longer be rectified, nothing more vain than regret. Neither as judges allotting praise and blame nor as avengers...
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