Suddenly there’s a raft of articles about the current baby formula shortage, which seems to have been caused by a combination of the usual “supply chain problems” and a large plant closing because of possible illness and two deaths from … Continue reading →
It’s been expected for quite some time. How bad will it be?: The Fed maintains that it can thread the needle and raise interest rates just enough to clear away that pesky inflation, but not so much as to crush … Continue reading →
Fancy that. Glenn Reynolds writes: “Twitter has been destructive for the left, but it has also been destructive for the nation. I hope Musk can fix the latter, at least.” I have written about my own detestation of Twitter quite … Continue reading →
It seems pretty apparent from the Ukraine war that Russia has a problem with its military equipment. This article summarizes some of the reasons, among them [emphasis added]: –Russia should theoretically have military equipment better than anyone but the U.S. … Continue reading →
Trump made some prescient – although obvious – points back in 2018. He was speaking to the secretary of NATO: TRUMP: We’re protecting Germany, we’re protecting France, we’re protecting everybody and yet we’re paying a lot of money to protect… … Continue reading →
Now that Musk has become the largest shareholder in Twitter, it seems he has plans to change some things: Elon Musk filed a new disclosure on his Twitter Inc. stake with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday, admitting that … Continue reading →
Forget these Soros DAs. Forget “defund the police” – you must have imagined it. Forget the Floyd riots and the open borders. Forget it all, because of Biden’s proposed new budget: The plan sent to Congress allocates more than $32 … Continue reading →
With the election of Joe Biden it seems that the time has arrived for all tyrannies to try to accomplish what they’d been putting off for just the right moment. And so we have the looming specter of China actually … Continue reading →
This depressing article about our energy policy and its consequences is well worth reading. One caveat – I think this comment by Barry Meislin (which I believe was in response to a different piece) applies to the one I just … Continue reading →
Highly unusual: Switzerland will adopt all the sanctions that the European Union has imposed on Russian people and companies and freeze their assets to punish the invasion of Ukraine, the government said in a sharp deviation from the country’s traditional … Continue reading →
First, a general caveat: we have the fog of war, so there’s no reason to trust any reports. But still, there’s a general drift, and it may be correct. The general drift is that Putin is surprised that the Ukrainians … Continue reading →
The money angle on Putin and Ukraine: Before Biden became President, the U.S. was energy independent and an exporter of energy. [Biden lowered] American production and remov[ed] Trump’s restrictions on the Nordstream natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany. His … Continue reading →