Mortgage Markets: In Control

In writing so much about Paul Krugman I have, to some extent, become distracted from writing about the most common and most dangerous media manifestation of the conspiracy to keep you poor and stupid. Krugman’s only a very special case of it: his writings about...

Bustamante, MEChA and the Media

Now that Democrat Cruz Bustamante is California’s gubernatorial recall front-runner, we can look forward to in-depth media investigations of the Latino candidate’s long-held ties to the racial separatist group MEChA, right? Ha. While Katie Couric complains...

Exporting Jobs

Among George Orwell’s insightful observations, there’s one very worthy of attention: “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” Let’s look at a few examples of corrupted language, thought and information....

Deflation

What needs to be realized is that there are two distinct causes of generally falling prices. One is the increase in production and supply, which should never, never be confused with deflation, depression, or poverty. The other is a decrease in the quantity of money and or volume of spending in the economic system.

The East Coast Blackout

The East Coast blackout seemed to be straight out Atlas Shrugged: 60 million people without electricity and the official reaction was that things worked like they were supposed to! I just had to verify that the New York Times editorial on the subject was a call for...

Myth of the Muslim Hate Crime Epidemic

Do you believe that a “post-September 11 backlash” has resulted in a nationwide wave of violence and bigotry against Muslims in America? The hype artists and book-cookers at the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) want you to think so. The...

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