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Fauci, Collins Bagged 58 Royalty Payments Amid $325 Million Collected By NIH

Editors’ Note:  This information seems to go even beyond what is called “regulatory capture.” Rule making agencies often lack expertise and hence tend to recruit personnel from the very companies they regulate. Progressives argued that “market failure” required the guiding hand of bureaucrats to correct abuses. However, in this case, regulators actually stand to profit […]

What ESGers Don’t Understand

In her excellent AIER essay “The Charge to Change Capitalism and Why the Profit Motive Must be Preserved” Kimberlee Josephson wisely warns of the dangers posed to the economy by ESG investing, “common-good capitalism,” and other schemes to achieve allocations of resources different from the allocations that would be achieved by markets. Advocates of these […]

America Can’t Afford a Blank Check for Ukraine

In his essay from August 4, Andrew E. Busch argues that opponents of providing aid to Ukraine have made a “feeble” case, identifying three arguments in particular that he finds lacking: that we should be focusing on issues at home rather than abroad; that the government of Ukraine is suppressing Russian Orthodox Christianity; and that […]

The Money Supply Has Shrunk For Eight Months In a Row

Money supply growth fell again in June, remaining deep in negative territory after turning negative in November 2022 for the first time in twenty-eight years. June’s drop continues a steep downward trend from the unprecedented highs experienced during much of the past two years. Since April 2021, money supply growth has slowed quickly, and since November, […]

Is This The Pause That Refreshes Or Something Worse?

When commenting on the stock market, it is difficult to establish continuity unless previous articles are referenced. We are sorry for that because it also requires the reader to go back to pick up the pieces of the argument. Our point of reference is the last commentary written on August 3, 2023, wherein we suggested […]

An Alternative to Subsidizing Your Own Destruction

You have to hand it to the Left. They are a clever bunch. They take your tax dollars and use them to promote abortion, DEI in the military, and reverse discrimination. They take the tuition money you saved to educate your children or your tax dollars, and then they use it to turn your child’s […]

The Second Great American Lie

There are many lies that Americans are told either by our government or by the compliant press that wants to manipulate us. There are two in our modern society that override all others. The first we have reviewed many times – that a college education is essential for your success in modern society. The second […]

Are We Going To Let The Mob Set Foreign Policy?

Mass protests have become popular with the radical Left because they work. They can achieve results unattainable through the political process or the courts by producing chaos and intimidating the cowardly leaders of our universities and government When the antisemitic, pro-Islamist demonstrations broke out on multiple university campuses this spring, most Americans assumed it was […]

Liz Cheney Covered Up Trump’s Push For National Guard On J6 In Political Memoir

As The Federalist reported, former Rep. Liz Cheney suppressed evidence that Trump requested National Guard troops for Jan. 6, 2021. In her memoir, former Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., falsely framed former President Donald Trump as the mastermind of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, with claims that the commander-in-chief resisted calls to deploy the National […]