Economy
Exorbitant Privilege and the Fall of the Soviet Union
US's exorbitant privilege is a factor in the fall of the Soviet Union often overlooked. In this article, I discuss how money printing by the USA led to the c...
Roaring 2020s: Three Signs That Capitalism Has Become A Mockery of Itself
Capitalism has become a mockery of itself as it loses the free market: I point to the Growth stock bubble, the money printing, and the Dogecoin mania as evid...
The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intensions: Progressive Social Programs Can Spell the End of USD Hegemony
Money-printing to fund social programs can be worse for the hegemonic status of USD than money-printing to inflate asset bubbles and to fund foreign wars.
Thirteen Things that May Happen under the Big-D Presidency
Under Biden & Harris, 13 major events and policies will likely be carried out in the next four years. They can be summarized as foreign wars and internal tur...
Donald Trump will likely win despite trailing in polls, because Americans are more astute than given credit for
Donald Trump will win the 2020 US Presidential election because the American public know they have been, and are, taken for a ride by the political elites. T...
Biden May Well Be Worse than Trump, but It Won't Matter
I rebuke the notion that a Biden presidency will be better than a second Trump term in any meaningful way: None of the three fundamental issues that we face ...
A Proactive International Policy that Emphasizes Strong Ties with the People of the World: What China Could Do to Avoid Reacting to US Provocations
China can protect itself by not reacting to US aggression, which is also how it can best avoid a new Cold War. Instead, a proactive international policy that...
76 Years After D-Day, History Shows that the USA Is as Flawed A Beacon of Democracy as the USSR was a Flawed Beacon for Socialism: It Needn't End the Same
Democracy has not been fully implemented in the USA, just like socialism was not correctly implemented in the USSR. Can protests after police killing of Geor...
Materialism Underpins the Social Chasm that democrats* (small 'd') Are Protesting Against in the US and Around the World
Materialism deprives lives of purpose and robs us of our sense of community. The unrestrained pursuit of wealth and freedom above all else leads to division ...
How Did President Trump Get Elected in 2016? Because People Voted with Their Hearts
Donald Trump won the 2016 election because he was loved by voters who are like him and who are enamored by his confidence and projection of competence. Trump...
Class Bias in Liberal Media: You Are Not Like Them
Beyond demand- and supply-driven biases, I point to class bias in media: Simply being part of a class influences how journalists experience and perceive real...
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Overpopulation and Economic Growth: Heads You Lose, Tails You Lose More [Discussing the Climate Emergency, part 1]
We are addicted to economic growth and, by proxy, population growth. Both threat our own existence through pollution, unrestrained resource consumption, and ...