One 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?
One 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
‘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
‘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
Now 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
The 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 […]