The deets, as we say these days: Burlington Date: August 17 Time: 8:00PM Place: Zero Gravity Brewpub at Flatbread. Here is a handy map: How to recognize Lambert: I am tall, not overly thin, with glasses, greying-white short hair, and glasses. I will be wearing a red shirt, and will have a black computer bag […]
Read more...Today’s Water Cooler: NAFTA negotiations, 2018 races, Charlottesville, housing, gold, Amazon disrupts retail by inventing the store, podcast
Read more...Musing on why the Fed is so eager to raise interest rates.
Read more...The war on cash, to enable central banks to implement negative interest rates on ordinary citizens, continues.
Read more...No new legislation is necessary for financial regulatory rollback to proceed. Enforcement priorities fail to target Wall Street.
Read more...The New York Times’ latest dubious achievement: how many lies it managed to tell in a single story about French labor laws.
Read more...Stagnant restaurant sales show consumers are tapped out.
Read more...Why a consumption tax does not hold up under close scrutiny.
Read more...WSJ says fiduciary rule helps Wall Street, so rescission unlikely. But still may be better for retail investors than previous status quo.
Read more...EPA enforcement of federal clean air and clean water laws drops off, yielding lower fines; trend looks only likely to accelerate.
Read more...How up and coming Democrats in the 1970s and 1980s decided being wannabe Republicans was a path to power.
Read more...Trump’s declared opioid crisis a national emergency; author Dr. Gabor Mate says effective policy would address the causes of addiction.
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