My morning train reads: • Why Patience Matters During Market Stress: Trend investors have had a bumpy ride so far this year, but how does today compare with history? (Man Group) • How Wall Street got Donald Trump wrong: Titans of finance and business are beginning to realise they misread the president’s second-term priorities. (Financial Times) see also Silicon Valley got Trump completely wrong: Three months into his presidency, Trump has delivered on many of the so-called tech right’s […]
Colleen Hroncich After a diverse teaching career that spanned pre-kindergarten through college at public and private schools, Anna Bernanke had some thoughts on what education could—and should—look like. Chance Academy in Washington, DC, is the hybrid microschool she created to bring her vision to life for children. Anna grew up very poor with parents who were Holocaust survivors who viewed education as the only way to improve your life, particularly from an economic standpoint. Attending a liberal arts […]
Tweet Here’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal. Editor: Shyam Sankar and Julia Dimon offer some sound advice to increase U.S. production of pharmaceutical products, such as renewing (as they put it) “the bonus depreciation for capital equipment included in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and extend it to commercial structures such as factories” (“The Bitter Pill of Reliance on China,” April 18). But their case for protective tariffs on Chinese-made pharmaceutical products is weak. […]
In Oakland, California’s Chinatown neighborhood, business owners are facing thousands of dollars in fines from the city for graffiti on their properties. Shirley Luo, manager of Won Kee Supermarket, owes $3,000—including late fees—for not cleaning up graffiti fast enough. Despite efforts to paint over the tags, taggers keep returning, leaving merchants feeling unfairly penalized as victims of vandalism they can’t control. The city requires property owners to remove graffiti quickly, calling it a public nuisance, but offers no […]
Last week, in Garcia v. Noem, Judge Wilkinson invoked President Eisenhower’s decision to send federal troops to integrate Central High School in Little Rock. And yesterday, Jeff Toobin called on the Roberts Court to reaffirm Cooper v. Aaron to stop Trump. His piece was titled, “When the Supreme Court Spoke With One Voice.” Toobin wrote: The choice for the court is clear: Either the justices will reaffirm the holding of Cooper that the federal judiciary is “supreme in the […]
Dallas ’63: A Brilliant Synthesis Regarding the November 22, 1963 Coup d’état, by Charles Burris Once again, the intrepid Peter Dale Scott takes us into that claustrophobic wilderness of mirrors where the criminal underworld meets the establishment upperworld in the sub-rosa labyrinth of the Deep State. Scott is the premier synthesizer unearthing all the various seemingly unconnected strands of hard documentary factual evidence and counterfactual hypothesizing concerning the November 22, 1963, coup d’état. He begins by addressing head-on […]
Nothing is as enticing as a free lunch. The idea of getting something for nothing surely is appealing to almost everyone. You want a new coat, or a nice meal at your favorite restaurant, or a dream vacation on an exotic island, or…. Well, there is no end to the list of things we would all like to have with no cost attached, with nothing to have to give up to get what we want. Economists are usually […]
In the spring of 2020, many churches in the United States closed down. They were told to. I am willing to forgive that behavior. In fact, I think I’m commanded to forgive that behavior. I get it. People were scared. Maybe a week you stay closed until you come to your senses. Maybe two weeks, because they assured us it took only two weeks to slow the spread. It took a special kind of wrong to close down […]