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IS THE UNITED STATES AT END OF EMPIRE?
AMERICA’S ECONOMIC PRIMACY IS ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE
America’s economic primacy is pretty much behind us. And, I don’t believe there is any chance of reversing a trend that began thirty plus years ago. The best-case scenario for the nation is to slow the rate of economic decline – never mind social and cultural decline, which are probably lodged in irreversible decay. Read More…
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CUBA AND VENEZUELA: THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE’S AXIS OF EVIL
Editor’s note: President Trump’s speech before the United Nation’s General Assembly, September 24, 2019, made clear that Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro’s Marxist regime was being held afloat with the help of his Cuban communist comrades: “The Dictator Maduro is a Cuban puppet, protected by Cuban bodyguards, hiding from his own people, while Cuba plunders Venezuela’s oil wealt Read More…
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BOOK REVIEW: SEA POWER BY ADMIRAL JAMES STAVRIDIS
It is a sad state of affairs when a four-star Admiral of the United States Navy publishes a book on the geopolitics of sea power that is filled with sloppy research, non-sequiturs, serious omissions, and platitudes. Read More…
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A DISREGARD FOR SERVING THE PUBLIC: THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AT WORK
Editor’s note: A recent reader to my blog asked: “I’m interested in your perspective on the recent government stalemate regarding spending. Read More…
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HOW IDEOLOGY MASQUERADES AS IMPARTIAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Editor’s note: Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Samuelson has
been hugely influential in promoting his views from the day he published his
economics textbook in 1948. He also penned a regular column in Newsweek
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CLIMATE CHANGE: SCIENCE OR PROPAGANDA?
The fear being stoked by the power elites in academia, business, government, and the media that climate change poses, as the current cliché has it, an “existential” threat to the planet is a threat alright but one that seeks to undermine a sovereign nation’s interests and priorities. Read More…
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THE MASK OF MAYORKAS: MORE DISINFORMATION FROM THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
The White House Propaganda machine was working overtime when it labeled its choice for Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, a “Latino.” A good try, perhaps, but disingenuous in the end. The fact is that Mr. Mayorkas’ father was Turkish and his mother Romanian. That the Secretary was born in Havana is irrelevant. Army brats born in Korea of U.S. Read More…
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GREECE REMAINS THE EUROPEAN UNION’S FAVORITE WHIPPING BOY
Editor’s note: In my frequent travels to Greece on business, I have witnessed firsthand the devastation which has been visited on this beautiful land by the nation’s European lenders. Read More…
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THE UNITED STATES WITNESSED AN ECONOMIC RENAISSANCE UNDER PRESIDENT TRUMP
Much has been said by pundits on the Left that the nation’s recent economic dynamism was due in large measure to President Obama’s policies and initiatives. Setting aside that these talking heads happen to be economic illiterates they also have a great deal of animus toward President Trump which further clouds their thinking. Read More…
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THE AMERICAN DREAM IN TATTERS: ENTREPRENEURIAL JOBS IN FREEFALL
The nation’s engine of growth in new jobs, historically, has been the young and emerging enterprise. Twenty years ago, companies less than one year old generated nearly five million new jobs. Currently, one-year old startups are creating a shade above three million new jobs.
The driver behind new job creation is the new business startup. Read More…
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