There has been much back-and-forthing over whom should and shouldn’t get money from the CARES Act. You know the CARES Act. The $3 trillion bailout bill passed by government to compensate people for governments forcing them to shutdown their lives and businesses – in the name of the China Virus FREAK OUT!!! A particular favorite […]
We’re FINALLY beginning to emerge out from under the government-imposed, titanically stupid China Virus FREAK OUT!!! During which we have murdered a $22 trillion economy – and thus far 36.5 million gigs, or 1/4th of our entire job pool. Meanwhile, Big Tech monstrosity Facebook last week announced its Conservative Censorship Board. Oops, I mean…. These […]
Nearly fifty years ago, an acquaintance was studying Mandarin Chinese from a Chinese immigrant. My acquaintance asked his informed educator if there was a movie he could watch – to get an idea of what China’s Communist regime is like. Without hesitating, his teacher said “The Godfather.” It was about that time in history that […]
Okay, we’re here delving into a little policy inside baseball. But the weeds are not as deep, as wide or as bad as they could be. And this is vitally important – and we are at a crucial moment in the process in question. At stake is global leadership and standard-setting for the looming Fifth […]
Imagine you have a mess of bees building a hive on your front porch. There are two approaches you can take. One is: You can leave the bees alone – and allow them to continue building their nest. The bees will, for the most part, reciprocate and leave you alone too. Choosing instead to focus […]
Donald Trump ran for the presidency in no small part – on his promise to Drain the Swamp. Business-as-usual in DC – has for decades been demonstrably and acceleratingly awful. As the federal government grew to the current $4.5-trillion-per year monstrous monstrosity – the cronyism and dirty-dealing grew right along with it. Crony companies know […]
That’s not a massive over-contribution at all. We’ve oft written about huge companies using their huge wallets – to dictate huge cronyism from huge governments. No gaggle of companies has done it more and more effectively – than the Big Tech companies. Silicon Valley Robber Barons Are Using Government As a Weapon Against Us Silicon […]
One of the very many national course corrections President Donald Trump is making – is renegotiating REALLY-bad-for-US global trade deals. We have been the planet’s largest economy for more than half a century. Our current Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is $19.4 trillion. And our trade deals – look like we have the purchasing power of […]
The United States Navy’s aircraft carriers have used the same steam propulsion technology to launch airplanes into the Wild Blue Yonder – since the 1950s: “Following World War II, the Royal Navy was developing a new catapult system for their fleet of carriers. Commander Colin C. Mitchell, RNV, recommended a steam-based system as an effective […]
Uber-huge Big Tech company Amazon – is a monster (Market Cap: $906 billion). Amazon founder and chief bottle washer Jeff Bezos – is the world’s richest human. It appears that from their July 5, 1994 beginning – getting huge was Bezos’ only objective. For nearly two decades, Amazon Retail sacrificed profits to growth – and […]