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By Selwyn Duke Ah, the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. Starbucks-drinking, video-game-playing, iPhone-pecking non-workers of the world unite! Or something like that, anyway. This may just, essentially, be the message delivered by Scott Galloway, podcaster and professor of marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business. In a Morning Joe…
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By Selwyn Duke It’s funny, the discussions we never have, even when they involve that proverbial elephant in the room. Here’s one: Since the U.S.’s population is only increasing because of immigration, when do we decide we have enough people and end it?
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By Selwyn Duke First there were the Biden family pardons; then there were the pardons of the J6 political prisoners. Joining the latter now, though, may be another case where the unjustly convicted would be absolved from guilt. It’s high time, too, as this condemned party has spent almost a generation in the pokey of…
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By Selwyn Duke “The best government is that which governs least,” goes the old saying. And if ever there were evidence for this proposition, it’s our federal government’s efforts at creating infrastructure. In fact, I built more as a child playing with Lincoln Logs and LEGO blocks than the feds do via some of its…
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By Selwyn Duke When asked in a recent ABC interview about how she’d combat higher prices, Kamala Harris had no answer. Instead, the Democratic presidential nominee went on about how she was raised a “middle class” kid (questionable) and, inexplicably, about how people in her neighborhood took pride in their lawns. But there’s a startling…
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By Selwyn Duke “Neither a borrower nor a lender be,” wrote William Shakespeare in Hamlet. If the U.S. government had taken this age-old advice, we perhaps wouldn’t be in a dire financial situation epitomized by a shocking statistic: In June, 76 percent of all personal income tax revenue was needed to pay interest on our…
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By Selwyn Duke Would you rather have some jobs available at $12 an hour or no jobs available at $20 an hour? The answer may vary depending on whether you’re a business owner or job seeker — or politician or bureaucrat. Regardless, the opening question, which is of the kind late economist Walter E. Williams…
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