While few like to admit the truth, politics is a team sport and a team cannot win with prominent members of the chattering classes crapping on their own captain, especially when there is a clear argument to be made about the very nature of our system of government. There’s no doubt that President Donald Trump’s… Continue reading The Iran War, the nature of a representative republic, and the failure of the conservative influencer class
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When good news is bad, the wisemen are all fools once again
Two weeks in a row an economic report, first on jobs, then on retail spending, smashed expectations, only to be simultaneously dismissed as a positive trend and used as an excuse to raise interest rates. Two weeks ago, the moribund United States job market received a much needed jolt, when the May report from the… Continue reading When good news is bad, the wisemen are all fools once again

