Instead of constructing a costly and potentially ineffective physical barrier, one that might keep you from leaving rather than keeping people out, why doesn’t the United States government construct a welfare wall? Fox News is reporting that Los Angeles County paid approximately $1.3 billion in welfare to illegal immigrants in 2015 and 2016. In 2015, […]
Archives for September 2019
WOKE: Europe considers MMT, quantitative easing for the people
By: Andrew Moran The social justice equivalents in monetary policy are Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and quantitative easing (QE) for the people. Desperate to save face and be liked again, the outgoing chief of the European Central Bank (ECB), Mario Draghi, is trying to throw anything at the wall to see what sticks, including even […]
IPO market suffering from multi-class shares: Goldman Sachs
The initial public offering (IPO) market is in a bloodbath. Recently, Goldman Sachs published a report that found companies going public this year are expected to produce the lowest profits of any year since the dot-com bubble. The Wall Street titan said that fewer than one-quarter of firms that have filed IPOs 2019 will record […]
Random Friday: SS benefits, Hillary Clinton, CNN’s Ukraine coverage
News Story of the Day: Next year’s Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) is expected to come in at 1.6 percent, down from 2.8 percent in 2019, notes a non-partisan advocacy group for retirees. This would equal to about $23 per month for someone receiving the average benefit of $1,460. For the last decade, SS benefits […]
Walmart to start offering healthcare with basic checkups costing $30
Do you want to see how free-market healthcare looks like? Well, go visit Walmart in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia! The big-box retailer is opening a medical care clinic called Walmart Health. What makes it such a great example of private sector healthcare is that it has a list of prices for medical service, such […]