Build Back Better

Blake Lovewell | The machinations of monetary theory are murky, but we must get a grasp of what is going on before we’re sold down the river.

New York Post, June 11, 2022 Joe Schmo a ‘soar’ loser: Biden in denial amid inflation crisis By James Bovard “‘We’ve never seen anything like Putin’s tax on both food and gas,” President Biden blathered yesterday after another disastrous report on soaring inflation. But almost nobody outside the Beltway believes that Putin is to blame […]
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21WIRE | Brace yourself: the surge in mortgage rates means that housing affordability has crashed.

BY JOEL KOTKIN | UNHERD | JANUARY 4, 2022 Over the past several decades, the progressive Left has successfully fulfilled Antonio Gramsci’s famed admonition of a “long march through the institutions”. In almost every Western country, its adherents now dominate the education system, media, cultural institutions, and financial behemoths. But what do they have to show for […]

2021 was, indeed, a disastrous year, but we do have some reasons to cheer.
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Biden's #BuildBackBetter relies on “modern monetary theory” — intellectual hucksterism which presumes any election winner is entitled to spend as many dollars as the government can seize or create. https://t.co/sGN95iLw7N — James Bovard (@JimBovard) December 21, 2021 Manchin is guilty of rejecting the “government spending as magic beans” philosophy that permeates the Biden administration. Build […]

In a provocative recent essay in the New York Times, the political historian Jon Grinspan places the distemper currently afflicting American politics in a broader context. In essence, he contends that we’ve been here before. Grinspan describes the period from the 1860s to 1900 as an “age of acrimony,” with the nation as a whole “embroiled in a generation-long, culturewide war over democracy.” Today,[Read More...]

 As if we needed any more evidence of the sorry state of our political system, the long-running battle over the ‘Build Back Better’ bill has provided it. As Senator Bernie Sanders pointed out, an early version of this bill included many proposals that would help Americans live with a sense of security. In addition, these proposals were strongly supported by[Read More...]

When President Biden first unveiled the Build Back Better agenda, it appeared that this country was on the path to a new war on poverty. In April, he told Congress that “trickle-down economics have never worked” and that it was time to build the economy “from the bottom-up.” This came after the first reconciliation bill of the pandemic included the child tax[Read More...]

Iain Davis Audio Version New Feature! The people who none of us elect, who ultimately control international finance, all corporate & business activity, government policy and international relations have constructed a system that will enable them to seize the “global commons.” They are the Global Public Private Partnership (GPPP) and while elected representatives are within their ranks, they …