by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 15, 2021 | Economics, Politics
Way back in the day, which in modern measurement means the previous Presidential campaign, Democratic candidate were all of a mind on doubling the national minimum wage. That there is a mountain of scholarship explaining why this is a Bad Idea from an economic...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 8, 2021 | Election, Politics
The doer and the thinker, no allowance for the other – Gerald “Little Milton” Bostock A disinterested observer might conclude that there have been two Donald Trumps. There is the doer, someone who had some significant accomplishments during his...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 22, 2020 | Culture, Economics, Election, Health, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Many of us have a bipolar relationship with social media. On the one hand, I think it’ll go down in history as a horribly corrosive influence on human interaction and cultural advancement. On the other hand, it offers us the opportunity to “meet” and...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Dec 9, 2020 | Economics, Politics
An economic notion, Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), has been pulled from the dustbin of history to serve as the foundation for a set political doctrines and proposals currently being espoused by the progressives in America. The word “theory” is the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Dec 8, 2020 | Economics, Politics, Taxation
We hear it all the time: Republicans support “tax breaks for the rich,” Democrats want the rich to pay “their fair share.” All this makes great fodder for those who don’t bother to inform themselves of the realities of our tax code, and...
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