And the news is very very good: Job growth blew past expectations in October and year-over-year wage gains jumped past 3 percent for the first time since the Great Recession, the Labor Department reported Friday. Nonfarm payrolls powered up by … Continue reading →
It seems to me that we were allowed to criticize Bernie Madoff without being called anti-Semitic. And that was the case even though that criticism might dovetail with certain anti-Semitic legends about money and rapaciousness and Jews. But all of … Continue reading →
It’s no surprise that the NY Times has obtained Donald Trump’s tax records, no doubt from some brave member of the The Resistance. At least, the paper claims to have obtained them, and I’m going to assume that is the … Continue reading →
Remember all the dire prognostications from press and leftist pundits about what would happen to NAFTA as a result of Trump’s ignorant bluster? Well, this is what has happened: The deal replaces, or amends, the 24-year-old North American Free Trade … Continue reading →
When I was young, ticket scalping was against the law, at least that was my distinct impression and my distinct memory. It also wasn’t so easy to do. Tickets had to be bought either at the box office or with … Continue reading →
A video has emerged that tells us what we already knew—that the heads of Google follow the ethos of the left: Someone leaked to Breitbart an hour-long video of an “all hands” Google meeting that was held just after the … Continue reading →
The headlines certainly indicate it—for example, this article in Fortune, with the headline “Colin Kaepernick Campaign Gives Nike a Big Sales Boost” is rather typical. But looking at several of these articles, I noticed that only sometimes do their headlines … Continue reading →
Nike’s support of Colin Kaepernick has caused a drop in its stock prices. But Nike is all-in: In the crowded marketplace of athletic apparel, presumably Nike’s overnight transformation from selling an apolitical product to “woke sneakers” for the SJW set … Continue reading →
More work to be done, but this is promising: But the deal left open the question of whether Canada, the third country in NAFTA, would agree to the changes — and Trump himself said he wanted to throw out the … Continue reading →
I’m so risk-averse I don’t even like to play the stock market. My aversion to risk is one of the many, many, many reasons I’m not Donald Trump. On the other hand, I do own some stocks, and I understand … Continue reading →
I know I’ve already written recently about the Manafort trial and Rick Gates’s testimony but I feel the urge to link to this post by streiff at RedState because it contains some tweets with details of the courtroom shenanigans that … Continue reading →
Whatever the reasons, it’s dangerous for governments to confiscate the land of citizens without compensation, as the leading party of South Africa is now poised to do. Their reasons reflect the complex history of South Africa, a place where black … Continue reading →