American Consequences

Author - Erica Wood

April 2019

Degrees of Difficulty

Paying for College Forever… The New School of Hard Knocks By Geoffrey Norman The show is called Paid Off and it follows in the tradition of such television classics as Queen for a Day and Family Feud. That is to say, it makes the woes of other...

April 2019

Cutting to the Bone

Taking a Knife to Our Capitalist System By Bill Bonner First, the March jobs report showed a big collapse in hiring. The official numbers showed 20,000 new jobs added in February, a far cry from the 170,000 that were expected. Then, the Atlanta Fed...

April 2019

Committee Brain

Why Government Doesn’t Work, No Matter Who Runs It By P.J. O’Rourke Lesson II The other reason government will always malfunction – besides the logical impossibility of sensible spending – has to do with a politician’s brain. “What brain...

April 2019

Dumb Money

Why Government Doesn’t Work, No Matter Who Runs It By P.J. O’Rourke Lesson I In 1980, Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman and his equally brilliant economist wife Rose produced a 10-part PBS series and an accompanying book about the...

April 2019

One Default From Disaster

The looming credit crisis will be swift, sudden, and devastating for investors. By Mike DiBiase Financial disasters don’t happen slowly. Like a sinkhole collapsing, they occur suddenly… and seemingly without warning. The sad truth is that most...

April 2019

The Big Ugly

Everyone Loses In The Zero-sum Game Called Politics Letter from the Editor: Editor in Chief P.J. O’Rourke For people like me who consider themselves to be libertarian, the 35-day “government shutdown” at the beginning of this year was a real be...