The current administration's economy has only outperformed the average performance of the previous administration (post recession) eight months out of the last twenty-one months, or roughly one-third of the time.
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The Economy in Context: October 2018
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A Short Word: Delousing our Electoral System
Regardless of whether you think this is a good idea or a terrible idea, it's clearly past time for some kind of reform of our broken electoral process.
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The Two Faces of Socialism
All socialists, whether they be Marxian or Nationalist, are monsters, driven by an unholy hunger to torment their fellow human beings in the name of their ignorant political beliefs.
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From Bad to Worse: The Post Obama America
As bad as Obama's eight year tenure may have been, the well meaning incompetence, naive mismanagement, and embarrassing diplomacy of his presidency pales next to the rolling dumpster fire of Donald Trump's moral turpitude, naked crony corporatism, and manifest legal malfeasance.
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A Battle of Wits with the Unarmed
The Trumplican's argument as to why labor force participation hasn't increased? It's too hard, because Baby Boomers.
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Paying The Moral Debt of 9/11/2001
Clearly, in many ways, we are every bit as flawed today as we were when the first rosy light of the morning of September 11th, 2001 dawned upon Manhattan seventeen years ago, but, honestly, shouldn't we be better?
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Red State of Denial: Paul Manafort Rolls
Paul Manafort, long time confidant and 2016 campaign manager for president Donald Trump, has finally rolled.
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Just Grow Up: Now Trumpism Doesn’t Like Nike
Why are these entitled, thin-skinned, red capped, Republican Party goons so triggered?
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A Farewell to John McCain
America bids farewell to John McCain, a man who played it straight until the end, gaining the respect of both his allies and his rivals.
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The Economy in Context: August 2018
Despite numerous deregulation victories and his incessant bragging in 2016, Trump's economy has created more jobs than Obama's second term (post recession) economy only 7 out of the last 20 months.
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Global Warming Alarmists Continue to be Alarmed Despite Science
Until climate scientists can speak with absolute certainty as to the causes and the processes of our climate, they should keep their opinions about their nonsense science to themselves.
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Burying the Living Wage Myth
[T]here's no more reason to believe that arbitrarily raising the minimum wage will elevate the poor to economic security than throwing them off of a building will teach them to fly.
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The Age of the Dirty American
The two World Wars fundamentally changed America and the world, in ways that we are still trying to understand, and the Boomers grew up in an America at ideological war with much of the rest of the world.
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Sorry, Alex Jones, Freedom of (dis)Association isn’t Censorship
For the pseudo-intellectual jerks and the pop-con punditry actually morally credulous enough to believe Alex Jones is entitled to spew his stupidity on any platform he wants, here's a refresher on how freedom of speech and freedom of association actually work.
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Embracing Darkness: Corporate Socialism and The American Right
Once upon a short while ago, Republicans feigned acceptance of these principles as properly basic, but now it seems they professed these beliefs in vain.
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The Climate Change Scam Is Destroying the Environment
The problem for climate alarmists and environmentalists is the inescapable economic conundrum posed by opportunity cost.
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No, The Russia Thing Isn’t Going Away
No matter what the president, his cronies, or his rowdy mob of gormless buffoons say or do, the fact of the matter remains that the "Russia thing" isn't going anywhere.
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The 4 Leaders of Morality and Wisdom
In American parlance, however, the gist of all great Chinese works is neatly, if bluntly, summarized with the English truism: The tone is set from the top.
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The Economy In Context: July 2018
At 157,000 net jobs created, the preliminary numbers in the July Jobs Report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics came in well below the 190,000 jobs expected by market watchers, and well below the average established during Obama's second term.
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The Economics Quarterly: July 2018
While the quarterly GDP growth rate hasn't been below 2.0% since the first quarter of 2017, it also hasn't been above 5.0% since the second quarter of 2014, and it's a long way from the 7.0% rate in the third quarter of 2003.
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Proletariat Politics is Destroying America
Seriously, though, why does it seem like a good idea to entrust political franchise to people who can't even accurately answer what the candidates on the ballot are expected to do?
Liberty is For The Win 