The bitter fruits of the progressive war against police continue to mount; an ill wind blowing no one any good. Over the weekend we witnessed two policemen in LA ambushed and shot repeatedly while in their squad car, and, protestors reportedly tried to block the entrance to the emergency room, with at least one allegedly […]
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Words matter. Repeated words by all the dominant voices influence more. Some will reap what others sow.
17 Sep 2020
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Low interest rates….forever?
10 Sep 2020
That’s my prediction. Yes I know, he who lives by the crystal ball eats lots of broken glass. Yet our national debt is exploding, and the deficit is only going to get bigger this year and subsequently (above and beyond the previously bad projections). So why wouldn’t interest rates rise with all this borrowing? Doesn’t […]
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How today’s politicians fail basic math
07 Sep 2020
You need to start by reading Brian Riedl’s excellent post from last week over at National Review Online, How the Far Left Fails Basic Math, as it’s my jumping off point. One of my key frustrations with the socialist/progressivist domination of the Democratic Party is their complete disconnect with reality in what they propose to […]
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The week began with Mr. Biden trying to halt the slide in key battleground states over Mr. Trump’s modestly effective convention of blaming Democrats for ongoing social unrest. You know me. You know my heart, and you know my story, my family’s story. Ask yourself: Do I look to you like a radical socialist with […]
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Most people resonate with the Biblical admonition to help the orphan and the widow, and they are imaging their creator when they do, since God does have special compassion to the vulnerable. So its natural and good when people and ministries focus on helping people improve their lives, in many different ways. But some ways […]
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Clarity on the morality of Democratic policies
27 Aug 2020
It’s easy to get into the almost clinical dissection of various policies and which political party has better values. Partisans of both political parties have attacks on the morality of the other side, as this week’s Republican convention does what the Democrats did earlier. Yet some data help clarify moral questions. For me it’s the […]
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“It’s what you know that ain’t so.” Much misinformation was to be expected at the beginning of the pandemic, because we simply did not know. But now there is quite a bit of data available that ought to be informing our public response. Yet we have systematically wrong understanding of the problem, in large part […]
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I’ve written here and here and here that free markets are most in alignment with God’s plan in a fallen world, and I argue that true private property rights (e.g., the right to not only use but exchange or sell the right to property) leads to the emergence of markets naturally, as we have differing […]
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Standard financial analysis suggests the value of any stock is equal to the present discounted value of its future earnings. Thus an increase in the price of any stock is due to either an increase in expected future earnings, or a reduction in expected future interest rates, or some combination thereof. With today’s close at […]
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California laws are worse than ineffective
16 Aug 2020
In my last blog post, Caleb defended California against my critique, as he’s proud to be a Californian. Now perhaps I was too harsh, as CA has a lot going for it. But I still struggle to see the positive aspects of its progressive legal vision. Today, in advance of starting school tomorrow, I took […]
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