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PODCAST: We Need to Fight Crime, Not the Right to Bear Arms!
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Conservative Commandos Radio Show GUESTS AND TOPICS TIM WILSON Tim Wilson is a Senor Fellow at the London Center, a former British Army officer who served in a variety of command appointments on numerous operational tours during a 32 year military career. Lt Col Wilson has written for a range of publications on diverse […]
Why Are Gas Prices Falling?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Does Biden deserve credit or does the second law of demand explain our less painful trips to the pump? Anyone who has a car is breathing a sigh of relief this last week. After two years of increasing gas prices, we’ve finally had a significant fall in gas prices. […]
A Political Victory for the Joes Is a Loss for the Country
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy William Anderson Editors’ Note: If Manchin thinks this will end the war on fossil fuels, he of course is wrong. The legislation through taxation and subsidies still directs energy choices through a top-down, central planning model, rather than allowing free competition among choices. It also does nothing to challenge the dubious science of global […]
Davos Man, Master Of The Poors
/in Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Rod Dreher What globalists did to Sri Lanka, they are doing to us all, in many ways. Slowly but surely, I’m getting used to this new posting system. I am receiving your comments about the problems with the new commenting system, and am passing them on to the Mothership. Sounds like we are quickly […]
No Farmers, No Food, No Life
/in Economy, Featured, Healthcare, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Carla Peeters The world is now facing a man-made food catastrophe. It is reaching crisis levels. Current policies in many parts of the world place a priority on climate change for realizing a green new deal. Meanwhile, such policies will contribute to children dying from severe malnutrition due to broken food systems, with shortages […]
How The Roman Government Destroyed Their Economy
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Spending, inflation, and economic controls destroy wealth and create conflict. By: Richard M. Ebeling, Fee Stories, October 5, 2016: In 449 B.C., the Roman government passed the Law of the Twelve Tables, regulating much of commercial, social, and family life. Some of these laws were reasonable and consistent with an economy of contract […]
Texas Now Produces More Oil Than Every Country in the World Besides Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) This “energy miracle” in the Lone Star State has to be one of the most remarkable energy success stories in history. As a result of the impressive, “eye-popping,” and ongoing surges in Texas’s oil production over the last decade, the Lone Star State recently surpassed Canada’s oil output for […]
Most Arizonans’ Monthly Costs Inflated By At Least $200 This Year
/in Economy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Tom Joyce Inflation is a big problem for Arizona residents, an Arizona Public Opinion Pulse (AZPOP) Survey conducted by OH Predictive Insights shows. Released Thursday, the poll concluded that 62% of Arizonans had seen a monthly spending increase of $200 due to inflation. The Phoenix metropolitan area is one of the nation’s hardest hit […]
Biden Family Connections to U.S. & China Energy Deals
/in Economy, Featured, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Larry Bell Here’s a head-scratcher. Weren’t we told by President Joe Biden that the release of a million barrels of oil a day from the US Strategic Petroleum Reserves (SPR) from April onward, “will help address supply disruptions caused by Putin’s further invasion of Ukraine and the Price Hike that Americans are facing at […]
Zuckerberg’s Edsel: Meta FAIL, Loses $2.8 Billion
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Massive failure. Meta Takes 2.8 Billion Dollar Loss On Its Metaverse Bet By: Rosemarie Miller, Forbes Staff, July 29, 2022: Meta reports a $2.8 billion loss in its Facebook Reality Labs while facing a FTC lawsuit. The Reality Labs Division contains augmented and virtual reality operations known as the metaverse…… Meanwhile, […]
Watch: Biden says U.S. ‘not in a recession’ despite two consecutive quarters of shrinking economy
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Another awful public appearance by President Biden. The Biden Administration believes that the American people are stupid, and hold them in total contempt. It’s horrible. Watch below. #Trump2024! What a disgrace… not just Joe, not just the democrats who are happy to see the US economy get battered to further their […]
Despite Leadership Opposition, 24 Republicans Help Send CHIPS Package To Biden’s Desk
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Taxes /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller The House of Representatives passed the $280 billion semiconductor chip and scientific research and development package on Thursday afternoon, sending the legislation to President Joe Biden’s desk. Despite opposition from GOP leadership, 24 Republicans joined 219 Democrats in supporting the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. All 187 “no” votes on […]
The Biden Administration Says U.S. Not in a Recession, but Federal Statutes Say Otherwise. Who is Right?
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Is the U.S. economy in recession? The answer is, paradoxically, both easier and more complicated than you might think. As expected the United States posted negative growth for the second consecutive quarter, according to government data released on Thursday. “Real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate […]
Starbucks Closures Over Crime Show How Companies Dodge Woke Consequences
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jarrett Stepman Troubled times may be ahead for the marriage between corporate America and the left. Starbucks recently announced that it’s closing over a dozen stores because of crime and safety concerns. “We’ve had to make the difficult decision to close some locations that have a particularly high volume of challenging incidents that make […]
Legislation by Any Other Name
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Peggy Little West Virginia v. EPA is a blockbuster ruling of great consequence to the current reign of the administrative state over the lives of Americans. It restores core foundational principles that have been ignored or trampled for far too long—namely that lawmaking power is vested in Congress and cannot be usurped by agencies […]
The Government Can Make Climate Change Much Worse
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Josiah Neeley Suppose everything you hear in the news about climate change is true. Suppose climate change is real, suppose it is primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels, and suppose that if this continues, the costs will be significant. Suppose all this is true. How should those who disagree with the likely […]
Interest Rate Tightening Will Cause Even More Economic Destruction
/in Economy, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Frank Shostak Federal Reserve policies attempting to promote economic and price stability are a major cause for the recent acceleration in consumer prices. According to popular thinking, the central bank is supposed to promote both steady economic growth and price stability, the economy is perceived as a spaceship that occasionally slips from stability to […]
Are We In A Recession?
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Who Really Needs a Definition of Recession? Not business or households. It really only serves one interest. Social media is ablaze with a dispute over whether the US economy is in a recession. The debate was prompted by the White House’s statement on upcoming GDP data. The statement claims: While some […]
Arizona Free Enterprise Club’s Full List of Endorsements to Date for the 2022 Election
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Arizona Free Enterprise Club Estimated Reading Time: 2 minutes The Arizona Free Enterprise Club is dedicated to advancing pro-growth economic freedom and limited government in our state. The following mission statement from the Club is in evidence by the tremendous success achieved over many years in advancing pro-growth policies and freedoms in Arizona. Following […]
Gore: Eliminate Democracy to Save Planet
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Energy, Environment, Politics, Regulation, Science /by DrRichSwier.comBy Jihad Watch A guy who lost a presidential election but made a fortune has some thoughts on the political system. Gore, in an interview with Meet the Press’ Chuck Todd that will air Sunday, said that public sentiment is changing in regards to climate change but that “democracy is broken,” The only people who think “democracy is […]
Bidenvilles: America’s New Emblem of Decay
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Life Advocacy, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Simon Hankinson In French, a “bidonville” is a shantytown. A “bidon” is a large container, like the giant yellow vegetable oil bottles used to carry drinking water in developing countries. I’ve seen plenty of shantytowns in cities from India to Togo; they are an unfortunate consequence of rapid urbanization. What surprised me when I […]
Rethinking Regulatory Capture
/in Economy, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Randall Holcombe The capture theory of regulation, popularized in an article by Nobel laureate George Stigler, concludes that regulatory agencies become “captured” by the firms they regulate. Regulatory agencies act in the best interest of the firms they regulate rather than serving the general public interest. Regulatory capture partly occurs because regulated firms have a […]
8 Ideas That Will Teach You to Think Like an Economist
/in Budget and Finance, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Sound economic thinking is vital for a prosperous future. Economics is the study of human action—the choices people make in a world of scarcity. Scarcity means that people have unlimited wants but we live in a world of limited resources. Because of this fact people have to make choices, […]
America Excels at Building Bureaucracy
/in Economy, Environment, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni A new bridge in Los Angeles is one example out of thousands. Los Angeles recently celebrated the opening of its new Sixth Street Bridge, which connects downtown to the city’s eastern district and crosses over an industrial area and the L.A. River (drainage wash). Designed to safely accommodate pedestrians, cyclists, and […]
Dictators Who Laud Bitcoin Deserve Your Scorn, Not Your Praise
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) Bitcoin was created as part of the grand dream of sound money and individual liberty, not as a tool to empower tyrants. On June 19, Colombians elected the former socialist guerrilla, Gustavo Petro, as president of the nation. The Marxist, a deep believer in state intervention in the economy […]
World Economic Forum, Totalitarian Enslavement
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Kelleigh Nelson “All technologies will be directly embedded into our bodies by 2030.” — Nokia boss, Pekka Lundmark at WEF “Irrational thinking and the embracing of absurdity as a way of life has spread to every corner of the globe—way beyond the first-world countries to the most remote islands in the world. There is […]
BIDENOMICS: Mortgage Demand Drops to a 22-year Low as Higher Interest Rates and Inflation Crush Homebuyers
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Elections, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report With the Biden Administration’s economic policies devastating the purchasing power of American consumers, home ownership has become out of reach for millions of Americans. What a tragedy. Mortgage demand drops to a 22-year low as higher interest rates and inflation crush homebuyers By CNBC, July 21, 2022 Surging inflation and interest rates […]
Dr. Birx Praises Herself While Revealing Ignorance, Treachery, and Deceit
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Jeffrey Tucker The December 2020 resignation of Dr. Deborah Birx, White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under Trump, revealed predictable hypocrisy. Like so many other government officials around the world, she was caught violating her own stay-at-home order. Therefore she finally left her post following nine months of causing unfathomable amounts of damage to life, […]
Woke Netflix Loses Nearly 1 Million Subscribers in Historic Loss
/in DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Geller Report Wall Street Journal: Netflix Inc. suffered two consecutive quarters of subscriber losses for the first time in its history, and said some key steps it is taking to boost revenue and subscriber growth wouldn’t happen until next year. The company lost 970,000 paid subscribers in the June quarter, fewer than the […]
The Semiconductor Industry Is Coming for Your Wallet. As Usual, Congress Is Complicit
/in Cyberwarfare, DrRichSwier.com, Economy, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) The Chips Act is a classic case of the government helping special interest groups at the expense of taxpayers. Of all the problems in the world right now, the chip shortage probably isn’t the chief concern for most people, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a serious issue. The […]