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The “Let It Rip” Canard: Reflections on Jay Bhattacharya
by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute
Early in the Covid period, the skeptics of government closures and universal quarantines were denounced as favoring a policy of “let it rip.” The …
How to Cut $2 Trillion of Fat from the Federal Budget
by David Stockman at Brownstone Institute
A goal of $2 trillion of budget savings is crucial to the very future of Constitutional democracy and capitalist prosperity in America. In …
Trump’s 19th-Century Solution to Fiscal Disaster
by David Stockman at Brownstone Institute
In the last weeks of the campaign, Donald Trump is slicing and dicing the Federal income tax nearly as fast as he served up fries at the McDonald’s …
The Neo-Liberal Consensus Is Coming Apart
by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute
The global Covid response was the turning point in public trust, economic vitality, citizen health, free speech, literacy, religious and travel freedom, elite credibility, demographic longevity, and …
They Have the Money, We Have the Numbers
by Peter St Onge at Brownstone Institute
Authoritarianism is back across the West — from Europe to the Biden-Harris censorship regime that would fit perfectly in Communist China.
I think many of …
How the US Government Turned on the People
by Peter St Onge at Brownstone Institute
The catastrophic mismanagement of Hurricane Helene relief is showing the American people that Washington’s dysfunctional but, worse, it doesn’t even seem to be trying to serve the …
China Enters the Economic Doom-Loop
by Peter St Onge at Brownstone Institute
China is going pear-shaped as Beijing panics and wheels out the “monetary bazooka.”
Cue the Worldwide inflation.
Just a few weeks ago I did a video about how …
The “Financial Coup” That Seized America
by Peter St Onge at Brownstone Institute
In the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis, former chief economist of the IMF Simon Johnson warned that the same dysfunctional policies he saw in his basketcase …
The Carbon Alarmists Are Silent about This
by Eric Hussey at Brownstone Institute
I value thought experiments as useful tools to understand how things work. Thought experiments, also known as idealized experiments, have a surprisingly noble history. For example, Albert …
Greggs sausage rolls, XL bullies, “cheeky” Tesco runs and a holibob to Magaluf: welcome to Keir Starmer’s miserable meal-deal Britain. This summer’s collective swoon over “Britishcore” — a wry celebration of the groaningly mundane aspects of British culture, which reached …
It is a rare curse for a government to be forced to relaunch so soon after entering power. Yet with the Labour Party and its leader currently exploring new depths of unpopularity, the explicit aim of Starmer’s speech to conference …
There is a lack of public comment and debate about Kamala Harris’s call for price controls on groceries and rents, the most stunning and frightening policy proposal made in my lifetime.
Immediately, of course, people will reply that she is …
A leading credit rating agency has blamed the Andrews Government’s prolonged lockdowns for Victoria’s ballooning debt, as the state stares down the prospect of a credit rating downgrade within the next year.
Victoria’s capital, Melbourne, had the longest lockdowns in the …
The housing price data has screamed out, “What inflation cooling?” The Case-Schiller index for June came in at an all-time record high and was up by +6.5% over last year.
So if you happen to be a wage worker you’re …
A year into the Biden Administration, the asset management group BlackRock appeared to recognise what other financial institutions had missed: the shift to a “new investment order”. Covid-era fiscal stimulus, wrote a panel of the firm’s executives, was here to …