If not Trump, who will cure the rot? on October 1, 2016One of the brothers charged in the August shooting death of mother-of-four Nykea Aldridge in Chicago, which prompted a controversial tweet from Donald Trump appealing for black support (“VOTE TRUMP!”), was released only two weeks earlier on a firearms violation. Ditto the murderer of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, whose 2013 killing was adopted as a symbol […]
If not Trump, who will cure the rot? on October 1, 2016One of the brothers charged in the August shooting death of mother-of-four Nykea Aldridge in Chicago, which prompted a controversial tweet from Donald Trump appealing for black support (“VOTE TRUMP!”), was released only two weeks earlier on a firearms violation. Ditto the murderer of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton, whose 2013 killing was adopted as a symbol […]
Utahs native tribes want jobs, not federal paternalism on October 1, 2016‘The locals would not have a voice anymore,” worries Clayton Long, a Navajo Indian and teacher in San Juan County, Utah. He’s referring to a campaign aimed at creating a new national monument of 1.9 million acres nearly in his backyard. Proponents are lobbying President Obama to protect the area around Bears Ears, twin buttes […]
Utahs native tribes want jobs, not federal paternalism on October 1, 2016‘The locals would not have a voice anymore,” worries Clayton Long, a Navajo Indian and teacher in San Juan County, Utah. He’s referring to a campaign aimed at creating a new national monument of 1.9 million acres nearly in his backyard. Proponents are lobbying President Obama to protect the area around Bears Ears, twin buttes […]
The preferred path to higher returns g With zero or negative interest rates, here’s an alternative to bonds on June 26, 2016Now that central banks have pushed short-term interest rates to zero or even to negative readings, all asset prices have risen to unusually high levels and prospective future returns appear to be unattractively low. In a world in which bonds no longer provide safe and steady returns, what is the investor seeking moderate risk and […]
Forget Brexit: the Western growth crisis will only be tackled when inflation hits on June 26, 2016The European Union has never fared well when presented directly to voters. That puts the European togetherness project at a disadvantage in this week’s British referendum, even weighed against the natural impulse of phlegmatic middle-class voters (which we nevertheless expect to prevail) not to jump off any cliffs. A larger fear is that an anti-EU […]