Alteration inflation
I have an old sweatshirt of which I’m very fond. It’s a pretty color, and it’s in good shape despite its antiquity. Except for the zipper, which broke. I can do simple sewing, but I’ve never put in a zipper … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Finance and economics
Bribery in the immigration court
Quelle surprise. Ohio immigration courts may be subject to bribery: At the center of the operation is Patricia Golder, who, according to the footage, has turned the alleged manipulation of the asylum process into her business. Golder says she takes … Continue reading →
Replacing Obamacare: Trump’s health insurance plan
With all the more violent news going on, you may have missed the fact that the administration has unveiled a proposal to replace Obamacare. Some key elements: The Great Healthcare Plan calls for codifying the Trump Administration’s Most-Favored-Nation deals to … Continue reading →
The main activity at the Minneapolis airport seems to have been …
… the transport of money to Somalia. Okay @DataRepublican, and I did some general numbers on the SomaliFraud cash going through Minneapolis airport. According to reports, over 2 years, they moved roughly $700MM through the airport. … That would essentially … Continue reading →
Ten percent of the US budget goes to theft/fraud
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has an estimate for us: Somewhere between 5-10% of the total federal budget gets gobbled up by wrongdoers each year, Bessent said, citing data from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). “If we can narrow that number, … Continue reading →
A new policy for immigrants on welfare
It used to be that immigrants who came here legally had to make their own way. There were charities – often religious or ethnic-based – that helped somewhat. But immigrants had to work very very hard to make it out … Continue reading →
The trade deficit is reduced
From Forbes: The trade deficit—a measurement by which the cost of a country’s imports is worth more than its exports—shrank to $29.4 billion in October, the narrowest gap since June 2009 and a 39% decrease from September ($48.1 billion), the … Continue reading →
Venezuela is about the oil, but not in the way the left says
Here’s an article about the Venezuelan oil industry. Venezuela’s oil is very thick and needs to be mixed with thinner oil to be usable: … [T]he oil that in the past has been used for this [thinning process] is American … Continue reading →
Mamdani’s Rental Ripoff theatricals
Mamdani is staging a series of struggle sessions in which people complain about bad kulaks landlords. These events have been given the alliterative title of “Rental Ripoff” hearings: New Yorkers will be able to lament about their rental woes – … Continue reading →
The MSM jumps into action … against Nick Shirley, maker of the viral video about Minnesota daycare centers
Your intrepid reporters are on the job: … [Some in] our present liberal media … seem more concentrated on trying to debunk what Shirley was exposing than on finding out the facts. CNN had a correspondent confront Shirley outside of … Continue reading →
Where is Mamdani going to get “other people’s money”?
The phrase in this post’s title comes from Margaret Thatcher: “Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money.” [Often quoted as ‘the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of … Continue reading →
The fraud scandal grows and grows and grows
It is already so large that I can’t cover all the angles. Luckily, I don’t have to, because a roundup will serve. (1) Excellent point: If welfare and redistribution were really about helping people, then their proponents should care *more* … Continue reading →