American Consequences

Author - Erica Wood

February 2019

Roger Stone’s Arrest

The Russian Conspiracy Delusion By Buck Sexton “You absolutely must wear a belt with a suit,” Roger Stone told me recently. We were making small talk right before taping on my Hill.tv show, and Roger was cordial if a bit eccentric. The...

February 2019

Rough Times Ahead

But Liberty Can Still Win By Dr. Ron Paul While Congress and the president fight over funding a border wall, they continue to ignore the coming economic tsunami caused by the approximately $22 trillion (and rapidly increasing) federal debt...

February 2019

The Year of Trump?

By Joseph S. Nye Jr. If Trump’s iconoclastic style was merely a breach of traditional presidential etiquette, one might argue that his critics were being too fastidious, or were trapped in old-fashioned views of diplomacy. But crudeness can have...

February 2019

The World Economy Goes Hollywood

Are Markets As Clueless as the Movie Moguls? By Anatole Kaletsky In a world where “nobody knows anything,” investors may be no better than film-studio moguls at predicting the future. If so, then markets, instead of being predictive, become...

February 2019

Why The Algos Need a Heart

What happens when you take humans completely out of the market? By C. Scott Garliss Anything a human can do, a machine can do better. Anything a human can screw up, a machine can screw up worse. If you’re using machines in the stock market, that...

February 2019

Do Dirty Socks Make You a Liberal?

The Social Sciences Strikes Again By Andrew Ferguson The vast majority of social psychologists – easily over 90%, by most estimates – count themselves on the left politically and culturally. So it’s no big surprise that gobs and gobs of social...

February 2019

Sympathy Versus Empathy

By P.J. O’Rourke There’s a difference between sympathy and empathy – the difference between understanding what others feel and feeling what they feel. Whether you’re sympathetic or empathetic can make a big difference in business. (And, of course...

February 2019

Love, Lies, and Tea Leaves

Using common sense instead of looking for a sign on Wall Street might leave you with a fuller cup By Turney Duff The old adage on Wall Street is to not get too emotional… “Don’t get married to a stock,” is how it’s often said. I never had that...