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 | Jan 6, 2021 | Election, Opinion, Politics
There was a time, not that long ago when measured against the scale of human civilization, but perhaps an eternity ago when measured in political years, when liberals held a number of beliefs associated with the word “free.” Free love, free speech, free...
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...
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