American Consequences

Learn what's really happening in America

No thanks, I believe the mainstream media.

Alice Lloyd

September 2020

School’s In! Well, Sort of…

Online Learning Is an Oxymoron By Alice Lloyd Summer’s fading, and fall is creeping in. The first few crisp nights of the season trigger the practically primordial nervous back-to-school feeling… When it dips below 75 on an early September...

June 2020

The Millennial Investor

A Generation’s Crisis-Conditioned Approach By Alice Lloyd “Is it safe to come out now?” is the question of the year. It’s top of mind whether your pandemic panic has been predominantly financial, psychological, medical, or social in nature. In a...

September 2019

What Wall Street Won’t Tell You

The inside story of the iconoclastic accountant who knows what the balance sheet hides. By Alice Lloyd Meet Joel Litman. He strikes an imposing even otherworldly presence… particularly if he’s recently flown in from his firm’s office in Manila...

July 2019

What I Like About U.(S.A.)

Even #Resistance feels patriotic sometimes, doesn’t it? By Alice Lloyd It’s not necessarily a rational feeling, the patriotic stir. It has too many triggers to count, the strongest of which catches us unawares and doesn’t make much reasonable...

April 2019

Red Scare

A majority of millennials favor socialism – how did this happen? By Alice Lloyd It was September 2016, and Hillary Clinton had a youth problem. In a conference room at Democratic National Committee headquarters on Capitol Hill, about a third of the...

March 2019

Doggone It

You Can’t Teach an Old Drug-Sniffing Dog New Laws By Alice Lloyd There’s no easy way to tell a drug-sniffing dog he’s fired. Amid the quickening march of marijuana legalization at the state and – hey, who knows – maybe soon even federal...

February 2019

The Devil Drives Tesla

There’s no denying it now: Elon Musk is not the Messiah. But how much does it really matter? By Alice Lloyd Remember, Elon Musk’s defenders keep telling me, “he’s only human.” The reminder has become a common refrain these past nine months among...