The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is yet another exceedingly awful DC creation. The CFPB was the awful DC creation of another awful DC creation – the 2010 Dodd-Frank law. Which DC extruded allegedly in the name of reining in “Too Big To Fail” banks after the 2008 housing crash and crisis. Only Dodd-Frank did…
As Big Media is oft wont to tell you, trust in “institutions” is low – and lowering. Gallup: Americans’ Trust in Institutions Slips: “Just 33% of Americans expressed ‘a great deal’ or ‘quite a lot’ of confidence in 14 of the country’s primary institutions…like police, public schools and the presidency.” What do almost all of…
Many of the Deep State bureaucrats with which We the People are afflicted? Go in and out of government – via a metaphorical revolving door to and from many crony parts of the private sector. People leave private crony sector gigs – for government gigs overseeing the sectors they just left. And later revolve back…
We have oft documented the decades’ worth of really awful trade deals in which the United States has participated. Chief country amongst the many with whom we’ve cut really awful deals – is, of course, Communist China. Our very stupid trade deals have bled millions of jobs from US to China. China in some instances…
Like most people, the mysterious world of digital currencies remains for the most part…well, a bit of a mystery. I’ve occasionally dived into some readings on cryptocurrencies – and found the water to be a little chilly. I do get the basic gist. And I certainly understand the desire to end run governments – with…
National Football League (NFL) Commissioner Roger Goodell – has had a bit of a bad decade. (So bad – that his ex-television-news-host wife was caught with a fake Twitter account Tweeting in his defense.) Goodell began this time frame under-reacting to legitimate problems like the New England Patriots’ Spygate. Goodell then woefully mishandled the break…
