Category: Economics

Broken System: 97-year-old Woman Breaks Hip, Told of 10-day Ambulance Wait, Found Dying on Floor

February 26, 2026

By Selwyn Duke Here’s a story for you from what could be called the Warmth of Collectivism Files. A 97-year-old woman in Britain is diagnosed by a paramedic as having a broken hip. A serious injury such as that means you’re going straight to the hospital, stat, right? Well, instead, the elderly woman is nonetheless…
Great Replacement: This Country Imported an “Entire City” of Third Worlders in 2025

January 18, 2026

By Selwyn Duke Imagine that Montana imported close to 400,000 Third World migrants, the equivalent of a medium-sized city such as Arlington, Texas, in just one year. Would that be a good idea? Could you foresee any problems with assimilation and manifold other issues? This question is apropos here because this is precisely what a…
Musk: AI Will Make Cash Worthless, Work Optional, Retirement-saving Obsolete — and More

January 12, 2026

By Selwyn Duke If “work ennobles man,” as the saying goes, are we headed for a very ignoble future? If “cash is king” today, what will reign tomorrow? If an abundance of the material can bury the spiritual, are we headed for an ever-more intensified secularism? These questions could and should be asked with a…
Mamdani’s “Tenant Advocate” Wrote in 2018, “Impoverish the ‘White’ Middle Class”

January 8, 2026

By Selwyn Duke “Suppression is necessary because the bourgeoisie [middle class] will always furiously resist being expropriated.” So wrote Russian Revolution author Vladimir Lenin in 1918. Fast-forward exactly a century and this spirit not only lives on, but with a racial (and racist) spin. Just consider New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “tenant advocate” appointee…
Economic Blues: Are Blue States Driving the “Affordability Crisis”?

January 6, 2026

By Selwyn Duke Here’s an interesting little fact: Texas’ real GDP growth rate for the second quarter of 2025 was 6.8 percent. New York’s was 1.5. Sure, this is anecdotal, and not all conservative states are faring as well as Texas (or even New York). Yet it does apparently reflect a pattern. Just consider an…
Save NYC Housing by Destroying It? That’s Mamdani’s Socialist Plan

December 30, 2025

By Selwyn Duke If you’ve watched the 1990 film Goodfellas, you may remember the segment where mob boss Paulie becomes a partner in a restaurant, then purposely bankrupts the place and torches it to collect insurance money. But the true story is far darker still. In reality, Paulie surreptitiously orchestrated the restaurateur’s difficulties in the first…
Affordability Crisis? Perspective and Propaganda

December 13, 2025

By Selwyn Duke Some politics wonks may remember 2010’s JournoList scandal. It was revealed that hundreds of left-wing journalists, academics, and political activists had been colluding via a private online gathering place and coordinating strategies and talking points. In other words, the “independent” media people certainly weren’t independent of each other; they were operating as…
The Great Worker Replacement? Trump Admin Turns to Humanoid Robots for Productivity

December 9, 2025

By Selwyn Duke A quarter-century ago, Sun Microsystems cofounder Bill Joy wrote the jarring essay, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” He warned that new technologies threatened to make humans obsolete (if not endangered). Now that future is nigh.
Forget “Democratic Socialism,” Says Economist; Embrace “Democratic Capitalism”

November 23, 2025

By Selwyn Duke “The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to make a profit,” wrote labor leader Samuel Gompers. This is also the sentiment with which economist and professor Mark Skousen opened a recent article. In it he urges readers to “share the wealth,” not “redistribute it.” And Skousen discourages the…
MASSIVE Retail Theft: The Unspoken Cause of High Prices and Economic Harm

October 17, 2025

By Selwyn Duke There’s more than one reason for the high prices hurting average Americans. But one of them is seldom discussed: the massive retail theft now plaguing our country. How serious is it? The total annual 2022 losses (e.g., including security and insurance) associated with criminality amounted to approximately $112.1 billion. Theft alone was 65 percent of…

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