What We Saw During ‘Night of Rage’ Pro-Abortion Protest
Estimated Reading Time: < 1 minute As the sun set over Washington, D.C., hundreds of pro-abortion demonstrators stood chanting and holding signs outside the Supreme Court. Rally speakers called for protesters to “take to the streets” in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling Friday that overturned Roe v. Wade. In the majority opinion, Justice Samuel […]
Democrats’ Disastrous, Capricious Energy Policy
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Democrats have spent decades warning that the United States must stop using the most efficient and affordable energy sources or it will be consumed by heat waves, fireballs, and cataclysmic weather events. Every flood, every hurricane—every natural event, really—is now blamed on climate change. We have burdened our children with […]
Strong Families Are Worth Defending
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote a landmark report in which he contended that the rising number of black families headed by unmarried mothers would reduce the prospects for Blacks to rise out of poverty, in spite of that era’s landmark civil rights legislation. Moynihan was furiously denounced for his […]
Bill Maher Says Donald Trump Will Easily Win In 2024 If He ‘Can Just Let Go’ Of 2020
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes Bill Maher thinks Donald Trump can cruise to a win in 2024 if he just lets the 2020 election go. Why? Well, Drag Queen Story Hour might be enough to propel Trump to a victory, according to Maher. “And I just thought, you know, if Trump could just let go […]
Seizing Assets and Sunsetting Deals: Long-Term Implications
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Two stories that we have chronicled before have come together in the past week in spooky juxtaposition. We readily admit the stories are somewhat “wonkish”, and have not gotten much press coverage or analysis. The two stories are related to the seizure of Russian assets, as part of the sanctions […]
Biden and Powell Are in Denial—A Recession Is Indeed “Inevitable”
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes And they are the ones who made it so. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve announced that it will “raise” interest rates faster than previously planned in order to “fight” worsening inflation. In a press conference, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell tried to assure investors and the public that the Fed is, […]
Fitch Doesn’t See Bottom of Office CRE Mess, Sees CMBS Delinquency Rates Spike Way Past Financial Crisis Peak in 2025
Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes A big driver is the “secular decline in the office market” that even slashed interest rates would not end. There has been a recent flurry of declarations by big fund managers with exposure to the office sector of commercial real estate that office CRE has “bottomed out,” or is “near […]
Want to Understand the Inflation Problem? Look to Harvey Road, Not Pennsylvania Avenue
Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes As news headlines have reported, the US economy today suffers its worst inflation in two generations. Not coincidentally, US public debt is also at its all-time high. As if on cue, opposition pundits are blaming the Biden administration, whose apologists, in turn, blame Russia and corporate greed while touting the success of Washington’s […]
How Taxpayers Will Heavily Subsidize Democrat Boots on the Ground This Election
Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Progressives are using legal loopholes and the power of the federal government to maximize Democrat votes in the 2024 election at taxpayers’ expense, RealClearInvestigations has found. A dizzying array of overwhelmingly “democracy-focused” entities with ties to the Democratic Party operating as charities and funded with hundreds of millions of dollars […]
Two Obscure Stories Of Long Term Importance
Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Two stories that we have chronicled before have come together in the past week in spooky juxtaposition. We readily admit the stories are somewhat “wonkish”, and have not gotten much press coverage or analysis. The two stories are related to the seizure of Russian assets, as part of the sanctions […]