Are you Heterodox?Heterodox Academy was founded in 2015 by Jonathan Haidt, Chris Martin, and Nicholas Rosenkranz, in reaction to their observations about the negative impact a lack of ideological diversity has had on the quality of research within their disciplines....See More »
There must be something wrong with this graph... It's pointing the wrong way! You mean, maybe we shouldn't panic after all???? Somebody tell Greta!
Could you live on $7,000 per month? Illegal immigrants need money when they get to the US. It appears that the city government of Chicago has spent about $7,000 of taxpayer money per month per illegal immigrant recently. This is according to a Chicago alderman. Inquiries into where...See More »
Can the ponzi last through the next election cycle? Fitch downgraded the United States’ long-term credit rating as expected. This is basically the reason: Thank you Barak, Donald, Joe, Janet, Jerome, Ben, US Congress et al. My question is, can the ponzi last through the upcoming election...See More »
SCOTUS strikes down the Biden student loan handout.tsk tsk. Imagine... people actually having to PAY their bills! Perish the thought!
US Banking system remains "sound and resilient"A direct quote from the minutes of the March 2023 Federal Reserve Open Market Committee meeting is: (Quote) Does this give you a warm and fuzzy feeling? Is the above quote the new "inflation is transitory" meme? I humbly ask this esteemed group...See More »
Biden lambasts a victory for the environmentNews Flash: Several OPEC+ members are set to tighten global production by an additional 1.16 million barrels per day until the end of the year. They're helping save the environment!!!!!!!!! YAY! Right? U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration...See More »
Yellen rules out bailout for Silicon Valley Bank March 12...Oops!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSZcPvp7NVU Good thing we didn't bail them out. Hey, wait a minute. 🙄 They must be too systemically woke to fail. Privatize the gains, socialize the losses as usual.
Yellen's warning about the debt ceiling.OK, so Janet Yellen warns that if the congress doesn't increase the debt ceiling by June, the US could default on it's $31 trillion national debt. The warning was dutifully reported on by the media in appropriately solemn tones. Janet descends...See More »
Ukrainian aid to get an auditor In the interests of bipartisanship the Biden administration has decided to look very carefully at future support for Ukraine against Russian aggression. A very astute and financially savvy auditor just happens to be available so Biden's selection...See More »
Vectors for misinformation, UNITE! I don't even know what the hell Karine Jean-Pierre and that Stanford professor are talking about, but it sounds like so much fun, count me in! I'm a Twitter vector and I'm proud. I'm part of an original crowd! And if you look around these days,...See More »
Changing one's mind.(Quote) -John Kenneth Galbraith Have any of you ever changed your mind based on some political rant posted on the internet, or do you always just get busy proving there is no need to? As a conservative I have to admit, I love Galbraith's wit!...See More »
This election was the best thing that could happen to Republicans1) Winning back the House enables Repulicans to block Biden's catastrophic big brother legislation as well as to set some of the legislative agenda. It also allows for hearings on some of the misdeeds of the current administration. 2) When the...See More »
Celebrating the Inflation Reduction Act I would just like to thank President Biden, Secretary Yellen and the congressional leadership for helping to break the back of inflation. It was a team effort! Job well done!
Is lower inflation "transitory" too?The world transitory is such a warm and fuzzy word. Like when the dentist tells me the pain will be transitory when he pulls my tooth out. But should this word also be applied to the lower inflation we have experienced over the past few months?...See More »
What is Greta Thunberg's advice? Now that Europe is facing perhaps its biggest energy crisis of all time, I haven't heard anything from Greta. Europe has been pretending to transition to alternative green energy sources that either don't yet exist, or don't exist in sufficient...See More »
Inflation as a Fiscal LimitA paper released at the same Jackson Hole, Wyoming, summit where Fed Chair Jerome Powell recently spoke makes the case that federal government spending needs to come down in order that Federal Reserve policy can do its job in bringing down our...See More »
Homeland Security Scuttles Disinfomation Board OMG there can be no truth anymore! Why did they do this? Am I part of the "disinformation threat stream"? Sorry, Big Brother, I'll never do it again!
How high will college tuitions go now?It's official! Students can now filch out on their loans. They sky's the limit on tuition! Yipeeee! Welcome to the United States of Zimbabwe. 🤓
Biden reportedly set to announce student loan forgiveness plan that would cost taxpayers billions.I wonder what my middle class auto mechanic who worked his way up to start his own business thinks about $300,000,000,000 of tax going to this program?
Give a man a fish...“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Steal a fish from one guy and give it to another--and keep doing that on a daily basis--and you'll make the first guy pissed off, but you'll make...See More »
Has the U.S. woke crusade in Afghanistan and elsewhere undermined our credibility?Have the wars to "liberate" Iraq and Afghanistan undermined our moral authority when it comes to Ukraine? What about the funding of Syrian rebels? Is it ok for us to destabilize countries whose systems we don't like?