I could only stomach the first hour; maybe more of you could hang until the end. Here are my thoughts for your comment and critique. Even if Mr. Trump fixed some of this in the end, the reality is that many people only pay attention early—this was a missed opportunity. Trump clearly lost the debate. […]
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Debate Reflections
11 Sep 2024
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Every one of these would deny it, yet it really is undeniable. Socialism is about the government owning the means of production and directing its use to the ends of the state rather than the ends of consumers. What our political class wants is not exactly that; I should have more accurately called it fascism, […]
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For Ms. Harris, “it’s not the economy stupid”
04 Sep 2024
Over at the far left Salon, Joe Tauke suggests Ms. Harris should focus on anything but the economy. In Tauke’s argument, despite all the evidence of a superior economy under Biden/Harris, voters simply don’t believe it: Yet when it comes to economic matters, all the momentum in the world apparently means nothing. Last month, the […]
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Great list of Questions for Ms. Harris
29 Aug 2024
Is over on National Review, you should check it out. I predict that no more than three of these questions (or the issues they represent) will be asked, and will not be pressed hard when the prevaricating begins. But the best one is this: Were any of Trump’s tariffs mistaken? Follow-up: Then why hasn’t your […]
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The #1 issue this election is still “it’s the economy stupid.” And as we’ve noted since before the inflation really got going, this is one of the issues that can override the rationale ignorance of most voters. Neither spin, nor media deflection saying “you’re wrong, the economy is really great” is going to be effective. […]
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I’m taking a break on political economy for a post today, since as I tell my students, you can have more impact on your communities if you are a small business owner than you can as a U.S. Congressman or Congresswoman. The reality is still that solutions to our world’s true problems are invariably micro, […]
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Freedom, Fallacies, and Fun
22 Aug 2024
Can the smoke screen and projection carry Kamala Harris across the finish line? Reality and logic keep pushing back, but she only has to go ~two more months. Let’s take a quick look at some of the reality mugging the Democratic/media machine. Markets still rock though, and smack down the left’s fatal conceit. Yesterday saw […]
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According to wide reporting, Kamela Harris will propose legislation to eliminate “price gouging” by greedy businesses as her key economic policy. Price controls of any sort are always bad, and this is so bad I’m wondering if even Nobel Laureate leftist Paul Krugman will try to justify it (or will he just pick up his […]
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“I Told You So” doesn’t feel so good.
13 Aug 2024
Here at BATG, we’ve been skeptical for a while that we’d see the Donald Trump/Joe Biden Round II. Too many Americans (typically around 70%) said they wanted another choice, and surely one of the parties (at least) would give it to them. My vanity and lack of time to create a more interesting blog post […]
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So why do politicians, left and right, want to emulate the Chinese on industrial policy?
29 Jul 2024
China’s economy is a mess. They created the world’s biggest credit bubble in history after the financial crisis, creating tremendous imbalances–vast overproduction in non-renumerative businesses. Their bubble has burst, and the millions of apartments built simply as a financial hedge, with no one to live in them, continue to decline in price. The vast stimulus […]
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