The government crony Spoils System – of course never actually went anywhere. You win an election – you reward your cronies. Or people you want to make your cronies. Or the spouses of people you want to make your cronies. Biden Nominates WV Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin’s Wife to Federal Commission: “Gayle Conelly Manchin is […]
Joe Biden, Inc and the Democrats have already established a really bad behavioral pattern. Otherwise known as lying their faces off. They name mass avalanches of government spending after popular concepts – but the actual bills actually spend very little on the popular concepts for which they are named. And spends all the rest on […]
Every business that wants to be around next year began this year with a budget. A roadmap on how they will spend their resources – on employees, materials, etc. For almost all businesses, government is the largest line item. Paying taxes – and paying to comply with regulations – consumes the largest chunk of their […]
We’ve long referenced government’s ”Crowding Out Effect”: “One of the most common forms of crowding out takes place when a large government, such as that of the U.S., increases its borrowing and sets in motion a chain of events that results in the curtailing of private sector spending. “The sheer scale of this type of […]
Democrats having secured complete control of DC, there has been a debate about whether or not – for at least the next two years – working even a little with Republicans and their allies is of any value. The argument against being that since DC is so divided – only enlisting Democrats and their allies […]
The House of Representatives just passed the $1.9 trillion omni-directionally-awful monstrosity they have disingenuously mis-named a “Covid relief bill.” Sure, there’s a little money in there for We the Peons. But the vast majority of its massiveness – is Democrat cronyism for Democrat cronies. Do Democrat States and Cities ‘Need’ Biden’s $350 Billion in Direct […]
Government officials (mostly Democrat) spend a lot of time breaking the laws they impose upon We the Rubes. That is, when they are not outright exempting themselves from the laws they impose upon We the Rubes. Hey, at least their self-exemptions are brazenly honest. Then there are the laws that exist with or without government. […]
Everyone knows a presidential election win incepts an avalanche of hires. Every one of the hundreds (thousands?) of Executive Branch agencies, commissions, boards and departments – get (massively over-)populated. Campaign staffers become government staffers. Old office staffers become new office staffers. State and local government bureaucrats – get called up to the big show. And, […]
We need as many people as possible connected to the Internet as cheaply as possible. Especially so – so long as governments insist on doing everything antithetical to everything we know about viruses. Locking down people in their homes – means the people’s only lines to the outside world are their Web-connecting fiber lines, coax […]
We all saw what happened last week with the GameStop short squeeze incident. GameStop Stock Surges in Epic Reddit-Driven Short Squeeze Big Hedge Funds routinely play these short sell “Kill the Company” games. Hedge Funds Continue to Short Sell UK Companies Despite Bank of England Calls to Stop: “(M)any hedge funds have effectively ignored the […]