Today’s afternoon headlines include, “Popular 30-year mortgage rate races toward 8% after hitting a high not seen since late 2000“, “Something is breaking in financial markets” “Dow Falls 431 Points as Bond Yields Climb“. We had a pretty nasty end of September, and October is starting us to the downside. The Dow has now given […]

I continue to be amazed and disappointed at the hostility and/or ambivalence to our friends, and openness to our enemies by politicians. The Biden Administration continues to romance the Iranians, who are the worst global actor there is, seemingly willing to do anything for a deal. For years, American presidents have been suckered by Vladimir […]

As we debate and assess the Republican candidates, I think it’s important to consider who the Democratic nominee is. I will be shocked if Joe Biden ultimately is the nominee. I’ve thought for a while that he won’t be, and I still have some hope that Donald Trump will not be the Republican nominee. But […]

One of Thomas Sowell’s best quotes is ““I have never understood why it is “greed” to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else’s money.” Now it’s hard to improve on anything Thomas Sowell has written, but I asked ChapGPT to help this morning. I asked […]

Two weeks ago, the Census Bureau released it’s real median income numbers for 2022, with real income falling a shocking 2.3% from 2021 to 2022. Yet the Biden Administration and its promoters continue to be amazed that Americans really don’t understand how good things are with Bidenomics! Consider Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman (hat tip to […]

In political science* and economics, one of the earlier axioms that our current moment says no longer applies is that of the median voter theorem. Roughly speaking, in a two-party system, the candidate that gets closest to the true middle views of the electorate will get all the votes to the right or left of […]

Today I want to share a greatly beneficial resource. It is easy to look at the culture and cherry pick a text to support out opinion; however, bad hermeneutics are not becoming of a Berean. Dr. Ched Spellman is providing an incredible overview of the Biblical canon, how it came to be, and how the […]

On September 5, New York City implemented a handful of new regulations targeting short term rentals. Most notably, those hoping to rent out their property must register with the city and be present on the premises during the rental period. This kills many Airbnbs and Vrbos where the owners are not always on the property […]

Have you ever noticed how every consumer group and politician always claims to be acting on behalf of the consumer? And yet every action either reduces consumer choice or leads to higher prices (and usually both)? As just one recent example, there is a big push amongst progressives to ban gas stoves in homes for […]

In the recent Republican presidential debate, Vivek Ramaswamy boldly articulated several positions that I agree with, such as the nuclear family being the best governing unit in society. I believe he was also correct in asserting that we are in a kind of cultural cold war in America; I think Mike Pence’s response was off […]