“He emphasized that he was committed to running as a Democrat but said that he considered himself very libertarian,” Ms. McArdle said in an interview, adding that they agreed on several positions, including the threat of the “deep state” and the need for populist messaging. “We’re aligned on a lot of issues.”
“My perspective is that we are going to stay in touch in case he does decide to run,” Ms. McArdle said. “And he can contact me at any time if that’s the case.”
More.
More.
"In a subsequent raid, agents found $90,000 in marked money in the freezer of Jefferson’s Virginia home."
Cornel West has been shaping up all summer long to be the real Operation Chaos candidate for Election 2024 in Emerson’s polling. Biden doesn’t need to worry about RFK Jr unless he, too, goes third party.
From the Emerson College Polling September National Poll here :
In
a general election rematch between Trump and Biden, 45% support the
former president and the current president respectively. Ten percent are
undecided. When Green Party candidate Cornel West is added to the
ballot, Trump holds 43% of voter support, Biden 42%, while 4% support
West and 11% are undecided.
- Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849)
… it’s back, says Rudd, and Xi’s Marxist vision means greater control over the private sector, an expanding role for state-owned enterprises and industrial policy, and the quest for “common prosperity” through redistribution — all of which is likely to shrink economic growth, he concludes. Rudd is the current Australian ambassador to the United States. …
Stevenson-Yang is … one of the few who isn’t puzzled by what’s happening in China, after living there for more than 20 years. The CCP “was always going to decouple. Once the party had acquired enough power, enough resources, enough money, it was always going to decouple,” she told CNBC.
The reforms that began in 1979, she says, “were always meant to be temporary, in order to bring in more resources.”
More.
Very amusing.
We’re law experts, see. This is how you get around the law.
From the story,
The filing characterizes the correspondence as Bankman lobbying his son to “massively increase his own salary.” Within two weeks, the suit claims that Bankman-Fried had collectively gifted his parents $10 million in funds coming from Alameda, and within three months, the couple was deeded the $16.4 million property in The Bahamas.
According to the partially-redacted filing, Bankman-Fried’s parents also “pushed for tens of millions of dollars in political and charitable contributions, including to Stanford University, which were seemingly designed to boost Bankman’s and Fried’s professional and social status.” Fried is also accused of encouraging her son and others within the company to avoid, if not violate, federal campaign finance disclosure rules by “engaging in straw donations or otherwise concealing the FTX Group as the source of the contributions.”
Bankman-Fried’s parents are legal scholars who taught at Stanford Law School. His mother is an expert on ethics, while his father specializes in taxes.
Trump: Nancy Pelosi Is Responsible For January 6th
There's an old saying which says don't get in the way of your enemy while he's busy destroying himself.
And she didn't.
Trump is indeed responsible because he scheduled the event for that particular day. He could have chosen any other.
No one is responsible for the crowd getting out of control but the crowd, but Trump is responsible for the unique intersection between the crowd and the Congress on January 6th.
The Democrats’ prosecution of the trespassers has been wildly excessive, just to make an example of Trump for his childish stunt.
We are children behaving like children, and we have the government we deserve, on all sides.
Overall, adults in the U.S. are least likely to say that kids having good manners is an especially important quality — just 52% of them said so in 2017, according to a report released this month by King’s College London. That makes the U.S. the country least likely, of the 24 countries surveyed in recent years, to believe good manners are crucial for kids.
This is a significant drop from 1990, when 76% of U.S. adults said it was a very important quality for children to possess, the data shows. …
Another factor that falls under the broader idea of kids being well behaved is if they listen to their parents or other adults. But even fewer U.S. adults said that obedience was a key quality for kids — in fact, it fell far behind in all countries compared with having good manners.
The country that values obedience the most is Nigeria with 58%, followed by Mexico and Egypt with 57% and 56% respectively. The U.S. falls into the second half of the table with 21%.
The whole thing is here.
The decline was inevitable, I suppose, with the decline of religion.
But things were already bad enough in 1958.
They isolate themselves socially. They live pretentiously. They are loud and ostentatious:
'“For more than two weeks, the Miss Universe Organization and Mr. Trump made it clear to GLAAD that they were open to making a policy change to include women who are transgender. We appreciate that he and his team responded swiftly and appropriately,” they said in a statement.'
The story from June is here.
There were just two years of this in the 1970s inflation, and they too were consecutive.
Anyone who calls Jerome Powell an inflation fighter is an idiot, or a stooge for the status quo of inflation profiteers.
This is all on the backs of the people, but where is the angry mob?
So medicated, so drugged, and so otherwise anesthetized by bread and circuses that the elites don't even bother to hide the truth.
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| Core inflation higher than DGS10 yield in 2020, 2021, 2022 (annual average) |
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| Core inflation higher than DGS10 yield January through July 2023 (monthly view) |
VIPSX, nominal return
Inception 6/29/2000 to August 31, 2023: 4.43% per annum
SPX, average nominal return, dividends fully reinvested
June 2000 through August 2023: 6.90% per annum (4.93% without dividend reinvestment)
Average real return per annum from $SPX, dividends fully reinvested:
