Patrick Newman joins Bob to discuss Simon Kuznets’ role in developing GNP and GDP metrics and Kuznets’ concerns over how government spending is accounted for in economic statistics.
With James J. Puplava, CFP®, CTS™, CES™, CIS™, CFS™, CAS™, CSS™, FPWM™ Mar 21, 2025 – Jim Welsh at Macro Tides explains that that Wall Street’s current rally, sparked by Trump’s election, may falter due to looming reciprocal tariffs set for April 2nd, risking a trade war unseen since the 1930s. He predicts the S&P…
Do people want President Donald Trump’s deportation crackdown? And is the MAGA agenda actually a leftist one? Just asking questions. Batya Ungar-Sargon, a columnist at The Free Press, joins the show today to address these questions and spar with us on immigration, tariffs, and wealth inequality. She’s a self-described MAGA leftist and the author most recently of Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women. Sources Referenced: The White House‘s Ghibli-style deportation cartoon https://t.co/PVdINmsHXs pic.twitter.com/Bw5YUCI2xL — The […]
Tomorrow, Senator Ted Cruz has scheduled a hearing entitled “Safety First: Restoring Boeing’s Status as a Great American Manufacturer.” Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg is scheduled to testify about steps Boeing has taken to address safety issues that have arisen in recent years. Foremost among these issues is Boeing’s conspiracy to defraud the FAA about the safety of its 737 MAX aircraft—a proven criminal conspiracy which directly and proximately led to two crashes of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. Like […]
Argentina’s poverty rate fell sharply in the second half of 2024, according to official data released this week, marking a major milestone for President Javier Milei’s sweeping economic reforms. According to the country’s official statistics agency, the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC), the poverty rate fell to 38.1 percent between July 2024 and December 2024—down nearly 15 percentage points from the first half of the year. Household poverty also declined by 13.9 percentage points, hitting 28.6 percent. […]
Last week, I posted an excerpt of Paul Clement’s arguments as to why the Executive Order targeting the WilmerHale law firm violates the Constitution, and said they struck me as quite correct. (The analysis is similar, I think, with regard to the other Executive Orders targeting law firms.) In response, a reader asked: With all the hub-bub now around Big Law firms being attacked, it might be nice to see a piece harkening back to the way numerous […]
So, i created this forum database to add and track bad police officers, allowing people to detail their encounters and have histories about police that is crowd sourced and public. I’m up to somewhere around 5k-6k officers listed. Last night I was outside and I noticed a bright light shine past the side of my house into the back yard. I got up and went to the fence and it was indeed a car driving by slowly, although […]
Ron Swanson | Parks and Recreation Wiki | Fandom Ron does not trust banks. Instead, he carefully saved, invested, and hid a copious amount of gold in places known only to him. Ron stashed his gold in multiple locations in his private property (which Tammy 1 tries but fails to acquire, finding Ron’s ‘decoy’ gold, instead). The monetary amount of Ron’s gold is never revealed to us, but there is the assumption made that Ron is tremendously wealthy. […]