American Consequences

Author - Erica Wood

August 2019

The U.S. Economy’s Strange Decade

By Larry Hatheway Weak productivity growth helps to explain the continued robust rates of job creation in the United States, as well as workers’ sluggish wage gains. If left unresolved, the productivity malaise will ensure that the current expansion...

August 2019

The Crypto Dark Age

How to Protect Yourself – and Profit – From The Crypto Dark Age By Eric Wade Editor’s note: Crypto expert and analyst Eric Wade sees a cryptocurrency “Dark Age” on the horizon… Is he right? Will cryptos rally when bitcoin...

August 2019

You Can Leave Home Without It

The Next Big Tech Trend in America Is Already Here By Chris Igou After I double-checked my pockets, my anxiety began to set in… Then it hit me. My wallet was sitting on my dining room table, right next to the bowl of fake lemons. I was...

August 2019

America Rides Again

God and the movies love this big, dumb place By John Podhoretz Everybody’s favorite quote from Alexis de Tocqueville is a fake. The author of Democracy in America actually did not say, “America is great because America is good,” in his peerless 1835...

August 2019

Horn Growing Grandkids?

By Dr. David Eifrig Our children and grandchildren are growing “horns.” Or at least, that’s what the popular media want you to believe… The latest media frenzy stems from a study in a 2018 issue of Scientific Reports that looked at X-rays of...

August 2019

How Twitter Destroyed Politics

Twitter has taken the center and pushed it to the margins, while the extremists roll in to occupy the empty space By Andrew Ferguson First, American politics was overtaken by the blogs. I didn’t like them much, either. Until the first couple years...