by Richard Schulman Joe Biden wanted to be a reincarnation of FDR, but his template was the anti-capitalist FDR of 1933-1937 – when the US was deep in a world depression and suffering unprecedented unemployment. Neither of these exist today. If Biden really wants to recover his reputation, he needs to transform himself into the […]
Green New Deal fails cost-benefit analysis
The Green New Deal fails any rational cost-benefit analysis, even if atmospheric CO2 is as serious a threat as climate alarmists believe it to be. Respected commentators who are not “climate skeptics” (Nordhaus, Shellenberger, and Lomborg) agree that the GND is a wasteful expenditure of trillions of dollars better spent elsewhere. by Richard Schulman Progressives […]
USMCA puts US under UN
The Weekly Trade Report – by L.C. The USMCA may move soon to a vote on the Senate floor, but the National Taxpayers Union (NTU) writes that “North American trade policy is too important to rush.” Congressional leaders leading the stampede are behaving like “timeshare salesmen…in trying to create a sense of scarcity and urgency […]
Democrats’ Green New Deal borrows from Green Party, Club of Rome, Malthus, Marx
The Democratic Party and environmentalist movement have merged with the Green Party and adopted its program. “The Democrats Stole the Green Party’s Best Idea. The Green New Deal used to be the eco-socialist party’s signature proposal,” a columnist for The New Republic writes. But those with a longer memory than The New Republic‘s columnist note […]