Hedge fund fun: the GameStop wars
So I’ve spent a while trying to get up to speed on the GameStop battles. If I can be said to have a wheelhouse, this is not it, and I’m going to assume that most of my readers already know … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Finance and economics
Brexit: yes folks, it really happened
Something to celebrate, and a long time coming: On Thursday night, the island nation formally separated from the EU after an 11-month Brexit transition period. “A new era has begun for the United Kingdom after it completed its formal separation … Continue reading →
Trump signs the stimulus bill
I see this move as being motivated by (a) the fact that if Trump had vetoed the bill, Congress was able to override his veto anyway or pass it next session; and (2) he was looking to the January 5th … Continue reading →
Wealth “extraction” in San Francisco
An article about the tech drain from San Francisco includes this: …[A] moral argument for tech’s responsibility to California, and specifically the Bay Area, has recently been produced. It goes something like this: young ambitious people moved to the state, … Continue reading →
Who’s against the stimulus bill?
Six hundred dollars of stimulus for Americans versus gazillions for pork, over five thousand rushed pages, and Congress has passed the stimulus bill at last. Trump has threatened to veto it if the amount of relief isn’t raised and if … Continue reading →
The new stimulus bill…
…has outraged nearly everyone on the right. Simply put, its ratio of pork to relief is high. Articles like this one are fairly typical; you can read them at almost every site. This kind of action has been typical of … Continue reading →
All hail The Great Reset
How important is liberty to people in the US today? It’s probably important to a higher percentage of them than in most countries – but still, a lower percentage than in previous times in the US. For example, we have … Continue reading →
RIP Walter Williams
Walter Williams has died at the age of 83. He was an economist of the classical liberal and libertarian persuasion. Like Thomas Sowell – with whose work I am far more familiar – Williams was a black man possessing the … Continue reading →
Drumming up COVID fear continues to be useful to the Democrats
Commenter “Leland” writes: I’m no longer in the camp that if Biden/progressives win, Covid will be dropped. No, Covid has become the best vehicle for bypassing checks and balances on government overreach. The Covid statistics will be every bit as … Continue reading →
Glenn Greenwald’s uncensored article…
…is very good. It’s the piece that made him quit the site he founded, the Intercept, because the editors apparently wanted him to go easy on good old Joe. Some excerpts: But nobody claimed that any such deals [as Bobulinski … Continue reading →
Hunter’s laptop and Joe’s judgment: what could possibly go wrong?
Hunter Biden’s unencrypted laptop (password “Hunter02”) was loaded with some goodies we’re just hearing about via the British press. The American press (other than the NY Post and a few other isolated examples) would rather not touch it with a … Continue reading →
More on the Biden corruption/influence saga
This, this, this, this, this, and this. That’s a lot to digest. And it’s probably just the tip of the iceberg. [Mixed metaphor alert.]
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