One hundred-plus countries engage each year in tens of trillions of dollars worth of global trade. Far too many nations engage in all sorts of anti-free trade actions – so as to warp the markets to their advantage. And when caught, far too many nations don’t stop their anti-free trade actions – they look for […]
Uber-everything company Amazon (Market Cap: $865 billion) – is a monster. Heralded as a free market success – Amazon has actually engaged in a whole lot of very anti-free market practices to get to be as huge as they are. Amazon’s Anticompetitive History Amazon Has Some Serious Antitrust Issues Amazon’s No-Profit Model: Bleed Competitors to […]
We the People should have known better than to hand the Democrats control of the House of Representatives. To paraphrase P.J. O’Rourke: “Giving money and power to Democrats is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” Except “teenage” is too advanced – the Democrats appear to be stuck in eternal adolescence. We have […]
We all last week heard much about this: Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters I am nauseously loathe to agree with New York Communist – oops, I mean Democrat – Congressman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. But when she’s right – she’s right. Amazon Calls Out Ocasio-Cortez as One of the Lawmakers to Blame For […]
We’ve long chronicled the incredibly obnoxious government cronyism incredibly huge Amazon (Market Cap: $779 billion) garners. Uber-Crony Amazon – Is About To Get The Biggest Crony Deal In DC’s Awful History Amazon: Government – And Its Crony, Monopoly Straight-Jacket How Crony Corrupt Is Amazon? The Right And Left Are Both Nauseated By It Amazon gets […]
Everything-Internet mega-company Amazon – is a monstrous beast. As of this writing, its Market Cap is $798 billion. Its owner, Jeff Bezos, is all by himself worth a cool $136 billion (at least until his looming divorce is finalized). Amazon dominates the Internet. Much of that domination has been achieved – by very anti-free market […]
The old political paradigm into which DC has spent the last many decades cramming the country – is coming apart at the seams. Busting through, actually. As constituencies jammed into one ideological side or other – are breaking free of their imposed bounds. We are in the midst of a massive, omni-directional realignment. Descriptives and […]
I am beginning to wonder if Amazon has ever done anything straight-shooting and/or above board – to acquire its massive market dominance and cash cap ($744 billion). Amazon Retail for nearly two decades has submarined and strip mined brick-and-mortar competitors by selling nigh everything during the retail-make-or-break Christmas season – at a loss. Amazon: Nearly […]
The old workman’s saying is: Measure twice – cut once: “One should always double check one’s measurements before cutting materials to minimize the chance of mistakes thus wasting materials, time and money.” The federal government spends $4 trillion per year. It has spent so much for so long – it has created ten of the […]
The federal government spends a whopping four trillion dollars per year. And prior to the Donald Trump Administration’s most overdue and much appreciated mass regulatory reductions – the federal government regulated at a compliance cost of two trillion dollars per year. That’s six trillion dollars per year worth of power – lorded over a country […]