Showing posts with label The Economist. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Economist. Show all posts
Sunday, April 6, 2025

The economy under Biden was a catastrophe now requiring draconian tariffs, just like we're being invaded by Venezuelan gangs everywhere requiring extraordinary measures which violate due process of law

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Everything is either awesome or awful, Republican or Democrat, white or black in our hysterical country. The economy went from being enviabl...
Thursday, October 5, 2023

One mechanism was a foreign remittances tax, but Paul Waldman and Donald Trump just leave that out

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  Here : When he ran for president in 2016, few of Donald Trump’s promises thrilled his supporters more than his pledge not just to build a...
Friday, December 4, 2015

The West will eventually need Russia as an ally

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Natalia Solzhenitsyn, quoted  here .
Thursday, September 24, 2015

German Americans still the largest ethnic group in 2013 at 46 million

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The Economist reported here in February: German-Americans are America’s largest single ethnic group (if you divide Hispanics into M...
Friday, December 19, 2014

America pushes NATO right up to the Russian border, the EU confiscates Cyprus' assets, and the Economist calls Putin paranoid

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Proving once again that the West completely disrespects Russia. They could easily be our friends, if America were still a Christian countr...
Thursday, September 19, 2013

The World Has Learned Nothing Since The Crisis: Global Public Debt Is Up 63% 2008-2013

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2008 global public debt $32 trillion Global public debt, the amount owed by the world's governments, has risen by almost $20 trillion in...
Friday, July 26, 2013

If QE Is Helping Only The Financial Sector, Maybe It Was Meant To

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Robert Skidelsky in The Economist here , referencing John Kay in the Financial Times: "All of this led John Kay to wonder why so much a...
Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Luigi Zingales Fingers George Bush As A Crony Capitalist

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There's a great interview with Luigi Zingales in The Economist here : Companies with a lot of money abroad sponsored a bill in 2004/5 th...
Thursday, May 3, 2012

The Euro Area is Walking into Depression

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So says The Economist, here : "The euro area is walking, eyes wide open, into depression. Led by its periphery, which is already there....
Sunday, February 19, 2012

Global Public Debt Clock: $44 Trillion and Counting

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Message to the post-Christian West: "Owe no man anything." Sincerely, St. Paul, Epistle to the Romans 13:8 Watch it here .

Dodd-Frank is 848 Pages Long, Glass-Steagall was 37 Pages

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Robert Lenzner reminds us here that the shorter one worked pretty well for a pretty long time, but the longer one which replaces it is alre...
Sunday, December 11, 2011

Academic inflation makes medical inflation look modest by comparison

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The greedy Marxists who outnumber conservatives on college faculties by three to one figured out long ago how to avoid the draft, subvert th...
Sunday, September 4, 2011

Shiller S and P 500 Price to Earnings Ratio Stands at 20.18 as of 09.02.11

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Track it here : Buttonwood provides a defense of it here .