Showing posts with label Forbes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Forbes. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

TACO Trump strikes again

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 Trump always chickens out, aka paper tiger, etc. (June 2) Trump administration pauses Social Security benefit cuts over defaulted student l...
Friday, February 7, 2025

Doubly inconvenient: USAID spent $1 million on Elon Musk's Starlink terminals for the Ukraine War which MAGA opposes

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 What is the world coming to?  
Sunday, October 1, 2023

Fox Business' broad inflation report contained an error

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 Here's Megan Henney , September 29th : An inflation measure closely watched by the Federal Reserve ticked higher in August as steep pr...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Libertarianism breaks a few eggs

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STUDY: Cannabis Overuse Linked To Heart Failure And Heart Attacks...
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

Joe Biden is obviously not in charge: Calls Xi Jinping what he really is, a dictator, one day after his Secretary of State tries to soothe relations with Taiwan remarks

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  Biden calls Xi 'dictator,' fueling Chinese anger...   Blinken Tells Xi Jinping U.S. Does Not Support Taiwanese Independence, After...
Thursday, April 20, 2023

Dan Bongino, who reportedly had the most successful Saturday cable show, is canceled at Fox in contract dispute after 10-year run

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  Story .
Thursday, June 9, 2022

Social Security: As usual, the people want a pony, daddy

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81% support taxing income beyond $147k to shore up the projected Social Security trust fund shortfall, Republicans by 79% and Democrats by 8...
Sunday, May 16, 2021

Bathroom transmission of COVID-19

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From: Preventing Fecal-Oral And Fecal-Aerosol Transmission Of Covid-19 Though the main way Covid-19 spreads will always be from person to ...
Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Unaffordable No Health Care Act: Health insurance premium increases pre-Obamacare 10%, post-Obamacare 60%

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Yes, It Was The 'Affordable' Care Act That Increased Premiums: It turns out that across the board, for all ages and family size...
Thursday, July 18, 2019

Pure insanity: 20% of total global bond market pays negative interest

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Opinion: We haven’t seen interest rates this low since before Hammurabi, so what bonds should you buy?:   Some $13 trillion in bonds a...
Thursday, November 8, 2018

Marijuana legalization is the spearhead of America's anti-conservative libertarian tide and ultimately of America's decline

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Eventually there will be no place left to hide from marijuana users in America. And they are going to be the end of America as we once kne...
Monday, July 16, 2018

I've always hated Forbes Magazine, but now I really hate it

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Story here and here . Papa John was set up, and Forbes was only too happy to help destroy him.
Monday, March 20, 2017

Brian Domitrovic and Larry Kudlow aren't the first to tell you the income tax made big government possible

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Their book, JFK and the Reagan Revolution , released in September 2016, makes the point well, as does this article in Forbes: And sur...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

Nathan Lewis thinks pretty highly of Judy Shelton's book on the gold standard

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Here : Today, the Federal Reserve, with the blessing of Congress, large banks, and many others, has embarked on an open-ended policy...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

The election in book sales: Trump 199,000 v. Hillary 2,912

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Forbes reported Trump's sales numbers here . The New York Times reports Hillary's sales numbers here (where there's no me...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Zogby poll on September 20th had Trump out front with 33%

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Reported here at Forbes: Trump 33% Carson 13% Bush 9% Fiorina 7% Cruz 5% Rubio 4% Paul 4% Kasich 4% Christie 3% Wal...
Sunday, April 26, 2015

We don't have free trade WITHIN the United States: Companies in just 13 states get over 90% of $110 billion in government subsidies since the 1970s

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We're talking over $100 billion of taxpayer money favoring companies, in descending order, in New York way ahead in first, then Wash...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Libertarian John Tamny displays the anti-intellectualism characteristic of the breed

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Here in "The Beatles And Wealth Inequality: A Reminder That Education Is Irrelevant To Success". It's a veritable cornu...
Monday, January 5, 2015

John Tamny of Forbes spends four pages trying to convince us falling oil prices are always due to a rising dollar

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Here , in Forbes: "Falling crude prices ... were a function of a rising dollar that revealed itself in a major decline in the p...
Friday, January 2, 2015

Happy talk from Robert Lenzner of Forbes misses the 180 month bear market in performance

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Robert Lenzner of Forbes, here , is only off by an order of magnitude (18 months vs. 180): Bull markets last on average about 97 month...