Category: Analysis

Is a Serious Financial Crisis Next?

Commentary Be grateful for what did not happen. Two and a half years ago, governments around the world took the unprecedented step of “shutting down” their economies, which means the extreme control of people and their choices. This has proven to be devastating to prosperity, education, culture, health, and the prospects for liberty. Anyone could…


The Senior Executive Service: Heart of the Medical Deep State

Analysis To understand and prioritize the stack of possible responses to the advanced state of corruption within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), think of a pyramid-shaped hierarchy of problems and issues. The origin of these issues and the overall administrative state can be traced to the Pendleton Act of 1883, which was…


American Loathing of Inflation Is in the Cultural DNA

Analysis This morning I was speaking with a gentleman who lives in New York City. He is highly trained. He has a good job. He is professionally ambitious. But, he says, these days he is struggling to afford food. After the high expense of rent and transportation, along with all the other strange ways the…


Anatomy of the Administrative State: The HHS

Analysis Many have come to believe that if Dr. Anthony Fauci either resigns or is removed from his position as director of the the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), then the whole COVID crisis problem of chronic, strategic, and tactical administrative overreach, dishonesty, mismanagement, and ethical breaches within the U.S. Department of…


5 Monumental Cases That Highlighted the Supreme Court’s 2021–2022 Term

Analysis The Supreme Court has just finished what will likely go down as one of the most momentous and memorable terms in history. In addition to the court deciding many blockbuster cases from abortion to the limits of the power of the federal bureaucracy, Justice Stephen Breyer retired, now-Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in to replace him; there…


Xi Jinping’s Report Card After a Decade in Power: Anti-Corruption Campaign has Purged Five Million Cadres

Analysis Beijing’s propaganda department showed off its anti-corruption achievements at a press conference on June 30, saying its decade-long campaign has investigated millions of people and punished hundreds of thousands. Since Xi Jinping took power in 2012, the regime’s anti-graft probes have investigated more than 4 million cases involving 5.344 million people, meaning the person involved was removed…


Xi Jinping’s Anti-Corruption Campaign Has Purged Five Million Cadres After a Decade in Power

Analysis Beijing’s propaganda department showed off its anti-corruption achievements at a press conference on June 30, saying its decade-long campaign has investigated millions of people and punished hundreds of thousands. Since Xi Jinping took power in 2012, the regime’s anti-graft probes have investigated more than 4 million cases involving 5.344 million people, meaning the person involved was removed…


Biden’s Green New Deal Is Increasing Greenhouse Gases

News analysis Here’s an amazing but true statistic. After more than a decade of declining carbon emissions here in the United States, in 2021, President Joe Biden’s first year in office, emissions rose. In other words, not only have Biden’s energy policies been a disaster for our economy and national security as we have become…


Worries About a Fed-Triggered Recession

Commentary Bloomberg News is concerned that rate hikes by the Federal Reserve to “fight inflation” may put the 2024 reelection of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris at risk by pushing the U.S. economy into a recession. Here is an excerpt from a Bloomberg article on June 15 that identifies the political danger…


Behind China and Hong Kong’s Different Responses to US Interest Rate Hikes

News analysis Amid soaring inflation, mainland China and Hong Kong central banks chose to respond in opposing ways to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate hikes, with China loosening its monetary policy, and Hong Kong raising interest rates. On June 15, the Fed raised the primary credit rate by 75 basis points, the largest increase…