Fredrich Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom while Nazism, under Hitler’s global designs, ravaged his native Austria. “Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn to another,” he noted in his classic work on the dangers of big government,…
San Jose’s Gun Tax Has Nothing to Do With Reducing Crime
Commentary CNN touts San Jose as being “poised to take a step closer to first-in-the-nation gun ownership requirements.” At first, I had thought that the poorly worded headline must be mistaken, as there are cities, such as Kennesaw, Georgia, that have required residents to own guns. In San Jose’s case, “gun ownership requirements” means paying an…
Flying Air COVID: A Bright Spot in the Beaten Down Airline Industry
Commentary On January 19, American Airlines flight AAL38 from Miami to London did something unusual. An hour into its flight, it made a U-turn and returned to Miami. Equipment failure? Security threat? No. … Just another mask dispute. Mask-related disputes are a whole new category of data kept by the FAA. As of the beginning…
Fed to Step Back From Quantitative Easing?
Commentary One of the least controversial predictions I will offer about this year, 2022, is to tell you that March looms on the horizon to repeat itself. I warned subscribers to my paid newsletter service Strategic Investment that the COVID-19 pandemic was real. We told subscribers in February 2020 that COVID-19 was destined to disrupt…
Why Does Your Small Business Need a Logo?
You’ve probably heard this before, but it’s worth saying again: every great business needs a great logo. A great logo design is an absolute must for any new business looking to stand-apart from the competition and authentically connect with their customers. In fact, a recent study from the MIT Sloan Management Review found that effective…
US Investment Firm Issues Challenge to China’s Legal System
Commentary We’re about to find out just how “free” China’s financial markets really are. As the restructuring saga around real estate developer China Evergrande continues to drag out, recent developments could escalate into a financial standoff previously never before seen in China’s capital markets. A U.S. distressed credit fund—which owns a piece of Evergrande’s defaulted…
Green Energy Mandates Spell Permanent US Energy Dependence on China
Commentary In the White House’s cattle drive to herd U.S. investors into green energy corporate boondoggles—and out of plentiful, cheap energy—lots of truth has fallen onto the cutting room floor. Take for example the trendy government-driven frenzy of green energy investment politics. Much of it is driven by the fallacy that “Green Energy” mandates are…
The Hated Sector That’s Posting Massive Revenue Growth
Commentary Two out of three Americans live in a state that has approved the sale of recreational cannabis. The Democrats control the White House and the Senate. And American support for cannabis legalization is at an all-time high. It’s a ground-floor industry that has an immense addressable market, with HUGE tax revenue potential. And despite…
Why the Government Wants Cryptocurrency Regulated
Commentary As the market for cryptocurrency continues to grow the regulators in Washington and Wall Street are increasingly worried. While regulators have blamed cryptocurrency for illegal uses like funding terrorism and funding illicit drug operations, the truth of the matter is that cash is mostly used for illicit activities, not cryptocurrency. The worry is that…
The Media War on Canadian Truckers: Is Freedom Public Enemy Number One?
Commentary The denigration of the Canadian trucker protest convoy exemplifies how freedom is now the biggest villain of the COVID-19 pandemic. A Washington Post cartoonist portrayed the trucker convoy as “fascism” incarnate in a now-deleted Twitter post, while another Post column derided the “toxic ‘Freedom Convoy.’” Anyone who resists any government command is apparently now a public enemy. The trucker protest was spurred by the…
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