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 8, 2019 | Drug Policy, Economics, Education, Health, Opinion, Politics
… and I’m here to help. Ronald Reagan famously declared these the most terrifying words in the English language. His quip embodied his form of conservatism, and ably summarized the repeated (and, as most libertarians will tell you, inevitable) failures of...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 2, 2019 | Economics, Education, Guns, Health, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Even as the humanitarian crisis in Venezuela devolves to military suppression of the people and teeters on civil war, our own socialist-wannabes continue to promise free this, free that, and government jack boots on the necks of all those people and businesses that...
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...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 28, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
My Facebook feed recently offered me one of those “red meat” posts intended to stoke outrage and mockery. In this instance, it was purportedly (and I stress purportedly – too many people have no qualms about making stuff up, and too many more have no...
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