Commentary Already and after the briefest of resistance, the Democrats are abandoning the trenches of their latest line of defense and fleeing to the rear. Just as they were settling in to advocacy of a prolonged shutdown to ensure they had a great economic depression to hang around the neck […]
US Sen. Rand Paul (KY-R) was attacked in an opinion piece from KPR. The author was literally lecturing one of the few elected officials who actually has the scientific background and medical training to comment on the COVID studies. The following op-ed is Sen. Paul’s response: I don’t think any […]
Terry Glavin: We listened instead to Jean Chrétien and the pro-PRC Liberal old guard. Remember that if — or when — Xi Jinping takes revenge over the Meng Wanzhou decision. For all anybody knows, now that Justice Heather Holmes has rendered a markedly unfavourable decision in the case of Huawei chief financial officer Meng […]
The Canada Pension Plan earned a return of 3.1 per cent after expenses during the financial year ended March 31, the board that manages the fund’s money reported Tuesday. Net assets for Canada’s national pension plan totalled $409.6 billion as of the end of March, up from $392 billion at […]
For years, I have been warning that during the age of permanent stimulus (which began in earnest with the Federal Reserve’s reaction to the dotcom crash of 2000), each successive economic contraction would have to be met with ever larger, increasingly ineffective, doses of monetary and fiscal stimulus to keep […]
Late last night, Hertz (NYSE: HTZ) filed for bankruptcy. The restructuring has sent shockwaves through the US auto industry, according to CNN. What’s driving the decision? Reduced air travel. The TSA reports that domestic flights are down 94%. As a result of this massive shrinkage, car rental rivals Avis Budget […]
More than 600 of the nation’s physicians sent a letter to President Trump this week calling the coronavirus shutdowns a “mass casualty incident” with “exponentially growing negative health consequences” to millions of non COVID patients. “The downstream health effects…are being massively under-estimated and under-reported. This is an order of magnitude […]
And you’ll never see it coming. A reminder for those making predictions. You would have never believed it if, in the mid-1980s, someone told you that in the next two decades the Soviet Union would collapse, Japan’s economy would stagnate for 20 years, China would become a superpower, and North Dakota […]
Authored by Mike Whitney via The Unz Review, In a pandemic, there is no substitute for immunity, because immunity provides the best protection against reinfection. That’s why Sweden set its sights on immunity from the very beginning. They crafted a policy that was designed to protect the old and vulnerable, […]