The Dog Deals of Summer
Dogs don’t pay tariffs. Inanimate objects don’t pay them. In the end, all government revenues must come from The People.
No Index
Something for Nothing
The value of a pick-up truck doesn’t go down when you start the engine. ‘Ghost wealth,’ on the other hand, drives away on its own.
Hail Caesar
The Big Man doesn’t believe in rules at all. Not the liberal rules. Not in the conservative rules either. He is the law. He is the State. His will is writ.
Ghost Wealth
Wealth is not discovered. It is created. So, there must be a connection between the makers and the made…between producers and their products…and between the income and the capital accounts.
Bombastic Bullying Brutes
Oswald Spengler foresaw the peak of Western Civilization coming around the year 2000. Now that we are a quarter of a century into the down cycle, the real questions for us remain the same.
Reward Friends, Punish Enemies
Tariffs can be used in a variety of vain and foolish ways — to promote foreign policy goals, to influence other countries’ internal politics, to raise drug cartels’ profits, to pay off big donors.
