by Peter Venetoklis | May 24, 2019 | Economics, Politics
We are well into the second year of Trump’s trade war, which has produced a volatile but flat stock market (The S&P 500 index sits, at this moment at 2856, almost precisely its 2873 value of January 28, 2018, just before this trade war began), and which...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 23, 2019 | Culture, Economics, Environment, Health, Immigration, Politics
Yes, it’s AOC time again. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, freshman congresswoman, political It-girl, and self-made voice of the Progressive Left and the Democratic Socialists, has offered up yet another interesting piece of blather. The headline, which reads...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 21, 2019 | Environment, Politics
New York State, helmed by a governor hell-bent on demonstrating his progressive-green bona fides, is propelling itself head-long into a wholly avoidable energy crisis. Con Edison and National Grid, the suppliers of natural gas service to the city and its suburbs, have...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 10, 2019 | Economics, Politics
Sure as the sun rises in the morning, the nattering ninnies that have been stretching the Overton Window leftward produce pandering policy proposal after pandering policy proposal. Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, dubbed the Nutty Professor and Bronx...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Apr 29, 2019 | Economics, Health
Most of us know that the American way of managing homelessness is ineffectual. What is less well known is how expensively ineffectual it is. What we spend on our way (calling it a “system” is laughable)) could provide for a system that works better, many...
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