Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) must be re-elected next year. She is comedy gold. She must be a walking parody of leftism because she spouts all the progressive tropes. She can’t be genuine in what she says, can she? Well, AOC has proposed a new idea: The government should guarantee everything we depend on. Oh, boy! […]
Archives for December 2019
There is no inflation if you don’t live in a house or go to college
By: Ryan McMaken In my days before I worked for the Mises Institute, I had a colleague who knew I associated with Austrian-school economists. In the wake of the bailouts and quantitative easing that followed the 2008 financial crisis, he’d sometimes crack “where’s all that inflation you Austrians keep talking about?” But then, in the very […]
LOL: Maxine Waters floats Trump-Putin conspiracy, admits ‘I don’t have the facts’
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has floated a new conspiracy regarding Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin: Putin propelled Trump to the White House to lift sanctions over Crimea. Humph. Interesting. What a shame for Putin because Trump actually applied new sanctions on Moscow. What a waste of an investment for Putin. But this must be […]
Boeing still up 2% in 2019 as company halts 737 Max production
Boeing has been in a mess over the last 15 months following the tragic airplane crashes involving its 737 Max airbus. The company suspended production of the airplane and new reports suggest Boeing is halting production of the 737 altogether. At least for now. And this will lead to a domino effect: From Bloomberg: Even […]
GOOD! In 2018, these 91 Fortune 500 companies paid effective tax rates of 0%
Well, you know for sure that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) are going to cry about this statistic during this week’s presidential debates. A new report has found that nearly 100 businesses listed on the Fortune 500 paid effective federal tax rates of zero percent or less. Good for them. Why […]