Erica Wood – American Consequences

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The Center Cannot Hold: Is there any way out of this Big Government mess?

Inside This Issue: The Center Cannot Hold The freedoms that you hold dear are disappearing. Common sense is a pejorative. And America will be unrecognizable a few years from now if about half the nation gets its way. Is there any way out of this Big...

American Consequences

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Teetering on the brink of panic… Record number of ‘retirement millionaires’… Nearly one-in-10 younger credit-card borrowers are seriously delinquent

February 14, 2020 Editor’s note: We’ll be out of the office on Monday for Presidents’ Day. Your next American Consequences Daily will be in your inbox on Tuesday morning. *** Dear reader, Yesterday, the number of coronavirus cases...

American Consequences

February 2020

It’s the Winner of the New Hampshire Primary…

And That Wasn’t Bernie Sanders Letter from the Editor: Editor in Chief P.J. O’Rourke Bernie did get the most votes, but it was clear that Democratic voters were looking for someone less flagrantly obnoxious to the general electorate than a...

P. J. O’Rourke

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What I heard last night: Definitive proof of the Melt Up… Riches from rags (yes, real rags)… Cost of pandemic that killed 3% of Earth’s population

February 13, 2020 Dear reader, Did you listen in last night? Because the Melt Up is here. The S&P 500 Index is up more than 400% from its 2009 low… the Dow Jones Industrial Index is nearing 30,000… and essentially every investor in...

American Consequences

February 2020

Romney’s Righteous Turncoat Vote

By Buck Sexton After the most absurd presidential impeachment in the history of the U.S. Congress, last week was finally an opportunity for the Republican Senate majority to restore sanity to its institution… On a purely party line vote...

Buck Sexton

February 2020

The Third Oil Shock is Coming

By Nick Giambruno Big Middle East wars are often catastrophic for global oil supplies. This makes sense. The Middle East accounts for more than 40% of global oil exports. So a big conflict in the Middle East often triggers a big spike in the price...

Nick Giambruno

February 2020

A Global Economy Without a Cushion

By Stephen Roach From 1990 to 2008, annual growth in world trade was fully 82% faster than world GDP growth. Now, however, reflecting the unusually sharp post-crisis slowdown in global trade growth, this cushion has shrunk dramatically, to just 13%...

Stephen Roach

February 2020

Everything on Demand

By John Stossel Reporters complain about business. We overlook the constant improvements in our lives made possible by greedy businesses competing for your money. Think about how our access to entertainment has improved. “When I was a kid,” says...

John Stossel

February 2020

Where Our Trust in News Lives

By Salena Zito Every Wednesday morning, James McDaniel sits along the South Main Street portion of U.S. Highway 11 with a healthy stack of The News-Gazette beside him. He wears a neat white apron with the newspaper’s moniker stitched across the top...

Salena Zito

February 2020

The $30 Fix for Your Love Life

By Dr. David Eifrig A bedside table lamp could help reinvigorate your sex life… Recent research from the University of Siena in Italy says that light exposure helps boost male sex drive. The study, although small, recruited men with hypoactive...

Dr. David Eifrig

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