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There Is No Such Thing As Student Debt Cancellation
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Nicolas Cachanosky President Biden finally announced his promised student debt relief program. The government will forgive up to $20,000 of student debt for Pell Grant recipients, and up to $10,000 for others with an annual income below $125,000 ($250,000 if married). On top of this, he is extending the grace period on student loan repayment until […]
Overturn Wickard v. Filburn
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Frank DeVito We should be able to grow wheat, chop trees, and raise chickens without congressional oversight. After Roe v. Wade, the constitutional case that bothered me most during my first year of law school was probably Wickard v. Filburn. The case is disturbing both for its blatant distortion of the Commerce Clause and […]
Economic Freedom Plummets in the U.S. During Biden Rule, New Ranking Shows
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Economic freedom in the U.S. drops to its lowest point in four decades. The Democrats hate you and wish to destroy every good thing, every joy this fine country had to offer. The daily social fabric of our lives is disintegrating at whiplash-inducing speed. Get out and vote in November. We […]
Can National Conservatism Threaten the Regime?
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tho Bishop Editors’ Note: We offer again, an article that speaks to the reformation of Conservatism. It needs a reformation because it has not been successful at stopping the Left any more than traditional American Liberals, and Libertarians, have stopped the Left. While occasionally successful at the polls such as with the election of […]
China’s Hidden Debt Crisis
/in Economy, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Milton Ezrati Editors’ Note: It is estimated that 70% of the household worth of the Chinese people is invested in the property market. This market is largely run by the government, the Communist Party, and its state-owned banks. We have covered this ongoing story for some time but indications are the situation is getting […]
DeSantis Takes Action To Limit Chinese Communist Party’s Land Buyouts: ‘How Is That In Our National Interest?’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis proposed legislation Thursday prohibiting the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from continuing its “nefarious” policy of land buyouts near U.S military bases in the state. The measure limits companies affiliated with China and other countries of concern, including Russia, Iran and North Korea, from purchasing sensitive land around the 21 U.S. […]
Fearing Fed, Stocks Tumble And Major Investor Slashes Expectations
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller All three major U.S. stock indices fell Friday morning as investors worried that the Federal Reserve’s ongoing campaign of aggressive interest rate hikes would weaken the economy. With Friday poised to be the fourth day in a row of slumping stocks, the Dow Jones Industrial average fell by 1.36%, the S&P […]
The Stock Market Officially Collapses Into Bear Market Territory
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The stock market closed out a week of intense losses with the Dow Jones falling more than 750 points Friday, entering bear market territory amid a wave of investor fears. At time of writing, the index had, at its lowest point, fallen more than 2.7% during the day to around 29,300 points, with […]
GOPUSA: McCarthy, House Republicans Highlight Economy, Education In New ‘Commitment To America’ Plan
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Featured, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier GOPUSA — Multiple Sources | Sep 23, 2022 House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy came out swinging in his speech, accusing Democratic lawmakers of ignoring rising crime, decrying restrictions on parental rights, and promising to repeal the recent expansion to the Internal Revenue Service. The agenda includes a slate of general policy recommendations […]
China Swamp: Where Personal Corruption Breeds National Security Threats
/in Commentary, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Skirmish – Liberato.US The Hunter Biden laptop is the gift that keeps on giving. Memos on the laptop show the Biden family was involved in 21 deals in 2017 and 2018 to sell U.S. natural gas facilities and other energy assets to communist China. The ultimate goal was to give China ownership in all […]
Another ‘Open Letter’ Warning to Americans
/in Courts & Law, Cyberwarfare, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, National Security, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Judicial Watch We now have another “Open Letter” – claiming America is “an exceptionally challenging civil-military environment” — signed by 8 former U.S. defense secretaries and 5 former chairmen of the joint chiefs of staff. The letter is published by “War on the Rocks” a website advertising itself as “National Security. For insiders. By […]
How the Fed Helped Create Another Calamity: The Ongoing Emerging Market Debt Crisis
/in Economy, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Joseph Solis -Mullen Editors Note: Many critics of the FED are keen on showing how badly they calculated “transitory inflation.” After ballooning the money supply by almost 20%, they seemed surprised. Certainly, the FED deserves a scolding. But probably more important is the FED quit being independent and decided to facilitate the wild spending […]
The Left Is Not Like Us
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kenin M. Spivak Progressives do not want the same things as most Americans. My colleague at the National Association of Scholars, David Acevedo, recently explained that the academic left does not apply “double standards,” because they don’t share the standards they flout. Rather, he writes, their “behavior is perfectly consistent with its true standard: gain […]
America’s Broken Policies Put Our Energy and Environmental Futures at Risk
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy David Holt To hear the current administration tell it, the energy crisis is over because gasoline prices have come off near-record highs. They tell us that there is no “there” there when it comes to the fact that America’s energy policy is thoroughly broken and headed down a path that is already risking our […]
Is There an EV in Your Future?
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky Discussions about converting the American fleet of over 275 million vehicles to EVs keep accelerating as more car companies begin to offer EV models. In California, the enlightened leadership has dictated that no internal combustion vehicles will be sold in the state after 2034. Let us look at the practicality of this […]
Mr. Biden’s Wild Ride
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel Central planning should be…planned, at least in some cohesive way, based on a rational basis. We are not suggesting we are a fan of “coordinated” central planning either since it can’t ever be done correctly by bureaucratic agencies that override the price signals, which are the actual guide to what is real […]
Theory Experiment Lost (Badly) to Basic Economics
/in Economy, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kellen McGovern Jones Jones MMT may be “modern,” but it has done nothing but revive old problems. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) was the “Mumble Rap” of politics and economics in the late 2010s. The theory was incoherent, unsubstantial, and––before the pandemic, you could not avoid it if you wanted to. People across the country […]
Modern Monetary Theory Experiment Lost to Basic Economics
/in Economy, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kellen McGovern Jones Jones MMT may be “modern,” but it has done nothing but revive old problems. Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) was the “Mumble Rap” of politics and economics in the late 2010s. The theory was incoherent, unsubstantial, and––before the pandemic, you could not avoid it if you wanted to. People across the country […]
It’s ‘Unreasonable’ for Banks to Share Your Financial Info With the Government, 8 in 10 Americans Say
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Gun Rights, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) About a fifth, 21%, think it is reasonable. hat if your bank shared what you spent your money on with the federal government? By law, banks and other financial institutions (like car dealerships, jewelers, pawn shops) are required to report certain types of purchases people make to financial regulators. […]
The Origins of the New Right – And its Future
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Charlie Kirk A true America First platform is the only way forward. The conservative movement has reached a definitive turning point in 2022. We can clearly see the emergence of a new right forming before our very eyes. The political process which ignited anew with onset of the Trump era is maturing, and a […]
How to Strengthen America, Weaken Putin, and Make the World Safer via Increased American Energy Production
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tim Benson Russian Economy Dangerously Dependent On Oil & Gas Exports American Experiment North Dakota has released a report detailing how American leadership on energy concerns, and a ramping up of domestic energy sources, can reduce Russia’s strategic leverage over European countries and help make the world a safer place. In Energy Leadership: How American Energy Production […]
Biden’s Trans. Sec. Buttigieg Wants NATIONWIDE Ban on Gas Cars
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report These irrational, evil morons hate everything good, great and productive. Ayn Rand foresaw it all: The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution. Read it. At the dawn of the climate movement, back in the 1960s, they called this environ-mentalism ‘ecology’. Ayn Rand said: “Ecology as a social principle . . . condemns […]
McDonald’s CEO Warns Chicago Mayor Lightfoot that Soaring Crime is Leaving its Corporate Staff Too Terrified to Return to HQ
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Gun Rights, Labor & Unions, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Mayor Lori Lightfoot has allowed criminals to take over the once great city of Chicago. As such, we are now seeing a corporate exodus out of the Windy City. How long before McDonald’s follows Boeing, Citadel, the Chicago Bears and others out of Chicago? Not very long at this rate. The city […]
New Poll Delivers Some Alarming News For Democrats
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Featured, Government Transparency, Politics, Regulation, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Voters overwhelmingly trust Republicans to manage the economy, a new poll ahead of this year’s midterm elections suggests, while Roughly 52% of voters said that they trust Republicans to manage the economy, compared to 38% for Democrats, while only 1% of respondents said they agreed with the proposals of both parties to manage […]
Gasoline Demand Destruction Accelerates Despite Plunge in Prices: Consumption Drops to August 1997 Level
/in Economy, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Wolf Richter Long-term stagnation turns into a sharp decline. Over the four weeks through September 9, gasoline consumption dropped by 11.7% from the same four-week period in 2019, to 8.56 million barrels per day on average, below the same periods in 2020 and 2021, according to EIA data today. The EIA measures gasoline consumption […]
Socialism and the Great Reset
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Michael Anton America must sink so the world may rise. “The following is an excerpt from Michael Walsh’s forthcoming book, Against the Great Reset: Eighteen Theses Contra the New World Order, which will be published by Bombardier Books and be available October 18, 2022. Walsh has gathered a series of essays from among eighteen of the most […]
Watch As Governor Ron DeSantis Takes On Woke ‘Corporatism’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Dr. Rich Swier “The United States is a nation that has an economy, not the other way around, and our economy should be geared for helping our own people.” — Governor Ron DeSants (R-FL) MIAMI, Florida — Speakers and attendees gathered at the National Conservatism conference this week for a series of panels and speeches discussing […]
Phoenix Sees Nation’s Worst Inflation
/in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Cole Lauterbach Phoenix metropolitan area residents are experiencing America’s most severe inflationary pressures. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its latest Consumer Price Index Tuesday morning. The Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale urban area saw a 13% increase in CPI compared to the same month in 2021. The only metropolitan area to come close in terms of […]
Climate and COVID ‘Science’
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Donald J. Boudreaux Physicist and former CalTech provost Steven Koonin’s superb 2021 book, Unsettled? What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters, busts many popular myths about climate change. Koonin is clear that global temperatures are indeed rising, and that some of this rise in temperatures is caused by human activity. But Koonin […]
Economic Freedom Falls in the United States, Global Report Shows
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) The pandemic policies of 2020 flattened economic freedom in the United States. The Fraser Institute’s 2022 Economic Freedom of the World Index report has been released. This year’s report covers the year 2020. The index development was led by Dr. James Gwartney in the late 1980s and early 1990s as […]