Author: CBD

Tariffs as an instrument of economic policy are problematic. They will shift costs to imports, but they may dampen total economic activity, or at the very least shift capital to possibly less cost-efficient manufacturing. But that is an economist’s discussion, and we will need several hands to do it correctly. As an instrument of foreign…

The headlong rush to envelop the world in war continues apace. Ukraine wants it to expand so NATO rushes to its rescue, and the Biden/Obama junta wants to create chaos for the incoming Trump administration while simultaneously pleasing the neo-neocons who never saw a war (and rising defense industry profits) and graft they didn’t like….

The Biden/Obama junta’s last gasp of relevance is functionally identical to a toddler smashing his toy because he didn’t get the correct scoop of ice cream. There is no logic to our Ukraine policy, other than a maniacal drive to fatten the coffers of the defense industry and their grifting, grasping, graft beneficiaries, while simultaneously…

Let’s be honest. Donald Trump is a sh*tty anti-Semite…he is a shitty totalitarian…he is a sh*tty misogynist. And worst of all? He is a sh*tty warmonger! Everything he touches turns to…peace? What the hell! We were promised Armageddon, WWIII, armies of White Supremacists marching through the streets. And what do we get? Zelensky Says Trump’s…

Was the entire state of California dropped on its collective head in the late 1990s? They went from George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson (two solid governors) to Gray Davis! And then it got worse! Is there a more dysfunctional state and a more dysfunctional voting base than California? Yes…yes, Illinois and New Jersey are in…

An “illegal immigrant” is not an immigrant. He is a criminal, and should be treated as a lawbreaker and dealt with by the criminal justice system. The conflation of immigration into America, which used to be of tremendous benefit to us as a nation, with criminals crashing the open border as part of the deeply…

Fiscal Responsibility is a quaint phrase that is bandied about by mendacious politicians to get votes from Low Information Voters who like the way it sounds. But it is nonexistent in the corridors of power, and there will be a reckoning eventually. At some point the debt service of the federal government is going to…

What a shock! Russia is slowly grinding up Ukraine’s resources and army, which should surprise exactly nobody with two neurons to rub together. This isn’t an unexpected twist either. Russia is almost five times the size of Ukraine by population, and 10 times the size by GDP. And in a war in which both sides…

I have had a couple of conversations this year that had me scratching my head and biting back my usual retort when confronted by abject stupidity and ignorance: “You can’t possibly be that f*cking stupid!” The first was a long (too long…it was on a long flight) conversation with an ER physician with a second…

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. — Marie Antoinette And the mushy-brained left has conveniently forgotten the sordid history of its god…socialism, and one of its most evil acolytes…Stalin! In the Stalin years, spouses, children, siblings, parents, and even ex-wives of accused enemies were often rounded up as relatives of so-called kulaks,…