There has been much back-and-forthing over whom should and shouldn’t get money from the CARES Act. You know the CARES Act. The $3 trillion bailout bill passed by government to compensate people for governments forcing them to shutdown their lives and businesses – in the name of the China Virus FREAK OUT!!! A particular favorite…
We’re FINALLY beginning to emerge out from under the government-imposed, titanically stupid China Virus FREAK OUT!!! During which we have murdered a $22 trillion economy – and thus far 36.5 million gigs, or 1/4th of our entire job pool. Meanwhile, Big Tech monstrosity Facebook last week announced its Conservative Censorship Board. Oops, I mean…. These…
Nearly fifty years ago, an acquaintance was studying Mandarin Chinese from a Chinese immigrant. My acquaintance asked his informed educator if there was a movie he could watch – to get an idea of what China’s Communist regime is like. Without hesitating, his teacher said “The Godfather.” It was about that time in history that…
Okay, we’re here delving into a little policy inside baseball. But the weeds are not as deep, as wide or as bad as they could be. And this is vitally important – and we are at a crucial moment in the process in question. At stake is global leadership and standard-setting for the looming Fifth…
Imagine you have a mess of bees building a hive on your front porch. There are two approaches you can take. One is: You can leave the bees alone – and allow them to continue building their nest. The bees will, for the most part, reciprocate and leave you alone too. Choosing instead to focus…
Donald Trump ran for the presidency in no small part – on his promise to Drain the Swamp. Business-as-usual in DC – has for decades been demonstrably and acceleratingly awful. As the federal government grew to the current $4.5-trillion-per year monstrous monstrosity – the cronyism and dirty-dealing grew right along with it. Crony companies know…
That’s not a massive over-contribution at all. We’ve oft written about huge companies using their huge wallets – to dictate huge cronyism from huge governments. No gaggle of companies has done it more and more effectively – than the Big Tech companies. Silicon Valley Robber Barons Are Using Government As a Weapon Against Us Silicon…
One of the very many national course corrections President Donald Trump is making – is renegotiating REALLY-bad-for-US global trade deals. We have been the planet’s largest economy for more than half a century. Our current Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is $19.4 trillion. And our trade deals – look like we have the purchasing power of…
The United States Navy’s aircraft carriers have used the same steam propulsion technology to launch airplanes into the Wild Blue Yonder – since the 1950s: “Following World War II, the Royal Navy was developing a new catapult system for their fleet of carriers. Commander Colin C. Mitchell, RNV, recommended a steam-based system as an effective…
Uber-huge Big Tech company Amazon – is a monster (Market Cap: $906 billion). Amazon founder and chief bottle washer Jeff Bezos – is the world’s richest human. It appears that from their July 5, 1994 beginning – getting huge was Bezos’ only objective. For nearly two decades, Amazon Retail sacrificed profits to growth – and…
