Month: October 2019

Low consumer inflation opens the door for Fed to cut interest rates further The consumer-price index was flat in September, the government said Thursday, marking the smallest change since January. Economists polled by MarketWatch had forecast a 0.1% advance.   The increase in the cost of living over the past 12 months was also unchanged… Continue reading But weren’t the tariffs supposed to be inflationary?

Bill Ram Z Paul Gates put out another video, this time calling out Trump for ‘de-platforming’ Michelle Malkin. This is in regard to Trump’s resort, Mar a Lago, which rescinded hosting an event by ACT, with Michelle Malkin who was scheduled to be the keynote speaker, after protestations by the ADL and the SPLC. Bill… Continue reading Dear dissent right, Trump is just not all that into you

A new post from Jim The crisis It looks as though the 2020 election is going to be decided by which side puts the other side’s leading candidates in jail, which is not all that democratic and is on trend for the end of democracy very soon. If Trump being impeached or arrested means that… Continue reading The Crisis

Saw this article going viral China’s Millennials The viralness of the article is evidence of the intense interest and approbation by smart Americans of China, as part of the US-China intellectual and cultural connection, as I have written about on numerous occasions. From the article, Chinese and American millennials share many similarities, which goes show… Continue reading The Chinese Millennial Experience is also an American one, and vice-versa

In recent months, some on the pro-Donald right have been complaining about the Drudge Report having an anti-Trump bias and have stopped reading it. I wound’t know, because the last time I visited Drudge was in 2010 or 2009, so I was one step ahead on that, too. The Drudge Report always has a that… Continue reading Drudge Report

In response to Peloci’s impeachment inquiry, Trump on Twitter invoked the possibility of civil war should he be removed from office. Predictably, the liberal media was apoplectic. Which does not make much sense to me because one would think that the far left would support civil war given that the last time there was a… Continue reading Trump and Stock Market Updates

Nihilism is a difficult word to define despite how often the word is used in everyday language. Some equate it with godlessness, or with amorality, or with life lacking a purpose of meaning. Nihlism is often associated with the philosophy of Nietzsche, who characterized nihilism as “emptying the world and especially human existence of meaning,… Continue reading Nihilistic Realism