It is not a full quarter as his inauguration was 20 days into it, but it is the first quarter of 2025. How does it look? Perhaps I can put it this way: a lot of good initiatives undertaken in a haphazard way that could limit their effectiveness or even result in failure. I will use a few of Trump’s initiatives …
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Once upon a time political establishments would focus on defeating their opponent/challenger in elections. Now they imprison them or stop them from running, as the Democrats tried to do to trump with four criminal indictments. The West Abandons Democracy: In Brazil Jair Bolsonaro faces alleged coup charges. In Romania, a host country for a US missile base on Russia’s …
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The West changed completely in the 1960s. The neo-Marxist student revolution implemented a full front attack on all traditional values and slowly broke down the very fabric of Western unity and stability. This may not have been the intent of the naïve youngsters who were thrilled at the prospect of free sex and drugs. They probably somehow believed in the …
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US President Donald Trump’s much-publicized tariff plan involves ending the socialist tariff system in which the US has been charged much higher tariffs than so-called economically disadvantaged nations that were poor in the past. The existing international tariff system is based on inequality, discriminating against Western nations and favoring the Global South, resulting in the United States being charged …
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A study of requirements for the optimal functioning of Capitalism quickly uncovers the need for a strong focus on trust. This applies to economics on the micro level as well as the macro perspective. Trust is one of the ethical principles that make the difference between constructive and self-destructive operation in profit-driven financial businesses. In cultures where social development …
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In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, sociologist Max Weber states that when modern Capitalism took form in Protestant countries such as Switzerland and Germany about two hundred years ago, the ideal was to earn money and increase wealth – not to squander one’s income away on status, luxury and consumerism. The duty of the believer was to use …
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Amid the seismic geopolitical changes that President Donald Trump dramatically and unapologetically shreds, the globalist norms that have governed the West since the fall of the Soviet Union are falling. The world now goes through fundamental changes of the type that will make history books as game changing. 1945 was such a year. It marked the end of World …
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Obama-appointed district judge Boasberg, who tried to prevent the deportation of a dangerous criminal gang of illegal aliens allowed into the US by the Biden regime, played a key role in fomenting the “Russiagate” hoax used by the FBI in the Democrats’ effort to destroy President Trump during his first term. Judges fomented Russiagate Hoax: It also turns out …
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When I was an economics professor, I often wondered if what my faculty colleagues and I were teaching students about economic policy had any validity. I left Stanford University, went to Washington, D.C., and joined the congressional staff in order to experience how policy is made. In the House, I helped Rep. Jack Kemp introduce supply-side economics to his …
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When Karl Marx called for cancelling God and the abolition of eternal truths such as justice, religion, and morality, he legalized contempt for the traditional moral standards of “do not lie, do not kill, do not envy others what they have”. The evil in man’s nature was no longer restrained, and the knowledge of how to tame it removed …
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