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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Donald Trump proudly proclaims himself Tariff Man, and whether Ms. Harris calls herself Tariff Woman or not, the Harris/Biden Administration left most of Mr. Trump’s tariffs in place, so she is still a Tariff Woman. Writing in the WSJ, Michael Levy helpfully notes (HT Cafe Hayek): Tariffs are fees charged on goods imported by U.S. […]

Here is how I see it. For the pro’s, 1) she is alive and has energy, 2) her name is not Joe Biden or Donald Trump, 3) the media can now joyfully promote her without feeling any guilt of being part of the big lie, 4) there are a lot of people who really dislike […]

In August 2007, after my promotion to Colonel in the U.S. Air Force, I was blessed to do my Senior Developmental Education (usually War College) as an Air Force Fellow at the Brookings Institution, along with fellows from the Army, Navy, Coast Guard and CIA. After arriving at Brookings one morning, I was greeted (and […]

Polls show that Americans are punishing Democrats for the establishment insisting that Biden was healthy and capable for a second term: A detailed report compiled by Democrats showing the president forecast to lose in an Electoral College landslide has sent alarm bells through the party’s leadership and led to renewed calls publicly and privately for […]

The bag of Joe Biden Potato Chips was never very full to begin with, and wasn’t particularly tasty, but in the eyes of many Americans, his chips were at least prospectively better than the alternative of Tasty Trump Chips. The Trump chip bag had some great tasting chips, and it was pretty full. But occasional […]

While ~70% of Americans lament that we are stuck with Biden-Trump Round II, there is nevertheless a choice to make this November. For Christian conservatives, I believe there really is no choice, as Joe Biden is hostile to most Christian values (e.g., he is not just supportive but an unabashed defender of the most radical […]