Category: Economics
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By Selwyn Duke Napoleon Bonaparte once said that history is “a series of agreed-upon myths.” Yet that current events can be, too, brings us to a question. Can the Democrats win the midterms only if Americans subscribe to a certain myth? That is, the idea that President Donald Trump’s second term has been a failure.…
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By Selwyn Duke Much of what governs how people vote isn’t reality, but perception of it. Just consider the economy. We’re supposedly experiencing an “affordability crisis.” It is true, too, that Iran-conflict disruptions have raised oil prices. Yet there’s also much good economic news — though you wouldn’t know it listening to the legacy media.
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By Selwyn Duke “Rain will always fall downwards,” the saying goes. “Don’t try to change the impossible.” And government will always run up debt to buy votes and print “counterfeit” currency to cover the deficits. While this is taken for granted, a revolution led by Argentine president Javier Milei aims to break the cycle. If…
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By Selwyn Duke “A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover that they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury,” goes the famous apocryphal warning. “From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates who promise the most benefits….” The result of this “is that every…
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By Selwyn Duke For decades, there would be much talk among politicians about United States budget deficits (and the national debt). Yet this faded sometime after 2010, at the latest, after which our debt achieved elephant-in-the-room status. It’s perhaps just too scary or inconvenient — when you want or are promising free stuff — to discuss.…
