American Consequences

Author - Erica Wood

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How bad could 2020 be?

Inside This Issue: The Best (and Worst) Case for 2020 This January, we’re looking at the year ahead… from the U.S. election to the stock market to the global economy. Editor in chief P.J. O’Rourke gets us started with why...

January 2020

An Exclusive Interview With Sean Parnell

An Exclusive Interview With Sean Parnell By Executive Editor Buck Sexton Recently, Executive Editor Buck Sexton sat down with Sean Parnell – Afghanistan combat veteran, Republican Candidate for the 17th Congressional District of Pennsylvania, and a...

January 2020

Government Debt Is Not a Free Lunch

By Kenneth Rogoff With interest rates on government debt at multidecade lows, a number of leading economists have argued that almost every advanced economy can allow debt to drift up toward Japanese levels (over 150% of GDP even by the most...

January 2020

If No One Has to Work, No One Will

By Senator Rand Paul A few years ago, NPR did a fabulous story on China’s rise from the ashes of Mao’s Marxism to allow a modicum of freedom. The story takes place in the small village of Xiaogang in 1978. Several farmers had come together in a dirt...

January 2020

Welcome to the End of Hong Kong

By Kim Iskyan Pretend for a moment… In 27 years, Martians are going to take over your country. The people in your country sort of look like Martians – so from the outside, it might not seem like a big deal. But your folk and the Martians have...

January 2020

The Wealth Whisperer

By Steven Longenecker Portfolio manager and former hedge-fund founder Austin Root has worked with and advised some of the most powerful names in the financial world… • Steve Schwarzman, the founder of Blackstone. • Hedge-fund billionaire and...

January 2020

Held Up Without A Gun

By John F. Wasik Today’s cyber-robbers skip the tellers and prey on unwitting ordinary account holders. Here, a veteran financial journalist explains how it happened to him. In less cybernetic times, bank robbers “knocked over” banks with tommy guns...