“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit451
U.S. LOCKDOWN IS SAVING MORE LIVES … Sweden’s no-lockdown approach to saving lives during the COVID-19 pandemic is not fairing better than the U.S. lockdown mitigation strategy when appropriate comparisons are utilized … at least not as of this writing. Rather than comparing countries with substantially different population sizes (U.S. 331m v. Sweden 10m) and …
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AN ENCOURAGING UPDATE … As of 11 April 2020, the current number of COVID-19 confirmed cases and related deaths in the U.S. are noted in the graphs below: And here is a map of the U.S. showing all counties in which COVID-19 deaths are (or are not) occurring: A few interesting facts and figures: There …
RESEARCH AND MUSINGS FROM A SHELTERED-IN-PLACE LONG-TERM INVESTOR … Never has our country, let alone the world, experienced such abrupt, robust and simultaneous supply and demand destruction due to a pandemic. So how much pain will the U.S. suffer as a result of the COVID-19 virus and draconian social distancing policies that have essentially shut …
AND EFFECTIVE WAYS TO ADDRESS THEM BOTH … In the aftermath of the deadly tragedies in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, where 31 Americans were killed and 53 wounded at the hands of two sick and evil men, FH will respectfully attempt to bring some perspective to the phenomena of mass shootings and offer …
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GOOD FOR AMERICA AND OUR MILITARY … We have bad news for democratic-socialists, liberal doves, radical feminists, flag burners, anthem kneelers, fake victims of toxic masculinity, and U.S. naval adversaries … the movie Top Gun: Maverick is debuting in summer 2020. Why is the sequel to the hit movie, Top Gun, the highest-grossing film of …
NOT MORE DEMOCRATIC GIVEAWAYS … All Democratic contenders for president in 2020 are using stratification economics to address the racial wealth gap that exists between black and white households in America. They’re taking their lead from liberal economists, like Darrick Hamilton and William Darity Jr., who claim that only drastic government intervention will remedy the …
Read More “SOCIAL NORMS, FATHERHOOD & EDUCATION ARE KEYS TO CLOSING RACIAL WEALTH GAP”
A RECIPE FOR RECESSION … In the past, we have been critical of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) for her economic ignorance. We’ve also criticized Fed Chairman Powell for his hawkish monetary policy. But to be fair, we also need to give them credit when it’s due. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testified today before the House …
Read More “AOC FISCAL POLICY AND FED MONETARY POLICY WILL HURT ECONOMY”
FACT-CHECKING SENATOR KAMALA HARRIS … In the second Democratic primary candidate debate of the 2020 presidential campaign on June 27, Senator Kamala Harris discounted Trump’s strong record of employment growth by claiming that people are being forced to work multiple jobs. We fact checked her claim and here’s what we found … The share of …
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MUCH MORE THAN OBAMA IN MOST CASES … Now that the Trump administration has been in office for over two years, there is sufficient data to compare key economic results between Obama’s 48-month second term (2013 – 2016) and Trump’s 27-to-30-month first term (2017 – March or June 2019, depending on available information). Contrary to …
Read More “TRUMP’S RISING ECONOMIC TIDE IS LIFTING ALL BOATS”
SLAVE DESCENDANTS ARE LIVING THE AMERICAN DREAM … With many Democrats and civil rights organizations proposing trillions of dollars in reparations for the ancestors of African slaves, we wondered … What if Africans were never taken from their country and enslaved in America? What if the distant descendants of slaves grew up in modern day …
Read More “SLAVERY WAS A SIN, BUT INNOCENT PEOPLE TODAY NEEDN’T PAY A PENANCE”
AN INCONSISTENT DOGMA …
FOR UNCONSTITUTIONAL, HYPOCRITICAL, INTOLERANT BELIEFS AND VIOLENT BEHAVIOR … This past weekend, members of the Rose City Antifa (RCA) organization in Portland, Oregon brutally beat an elderly man with baseball bats, cracked the skull of a Good Samaritan coming to his rescue, and punched, kicked and sprayed milkshakes laced with quick-drying cement and caustic chemicals …
TO LEVEL GLOBAL PLAYING FIELD, ALIGN WITH ACTUAL INFLATION, ACCELERATE GROWTH & EMPLOYMENT, AND AVOID RECESSION … Please indulge us as we try one more time to convince the Federal Reserve Bank to lower the fed funds interest rate at their next meeting this month. We provide the following new ammunition to justify our repeated …
CONSERVATIVE POLICIES DO NOT DENIGRATE MIGRANTS … On May 21, former Atlanta archbishop Wilton Gregory, 71, became the first African American archbishop of the Washington D.C. Catholic church. Gregory, who grew up in Chicago and converted to Catholicism as a teenager, is a progressive with ultra liberal views on immigration. On June 30, in his …
NOT WHAT YOU MIGHT THINK … Now that the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has decided all 72 of its cases in 2019, were the left-wing doomsayers prescient in their dire predictions of unwavering conservative decisions inevitably resulting from President Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh to the court? To find …
ONLY TIME WILL TELL … In the second of two Democratic primary debates on June 27, top candidates Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders all declared they would pursue these five immigration policies if elected president: 1 – Decriminalize border crossings 2 – Cease deportation of undocumented immigrants 3 – Provide universal health care …
Read More “2020 DEM IMMIGRATION POLICY PROPOSALS: CRAZY OR SMART?”
BILL DE BLASIO REVEALS 2020 DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST AGENDA FINANCING PLAN … In last night’s first Democratic primary debate, Bill de Blasio, New York City mayor and 2020 presidential hopeful, revealed how Democrats plan to generate the trillions of dollars it would cost to pay for socialist programs like the Green New Deal, Medicare For All, …
Read More ““THERE’S PLENTY OF MONEY IN THE COUNTRY, IT’S JUST IN THE WRONG HANDS””
INTENTIONS ARE GOOD, OUTCOMES ARE BAD … As so-called “sanctuary” states, counties and cities continue thwarting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts to enforce U.S. immigration law and deport illegal immigrants, we thought it would be instructive to research whether American citizens living in sanctuary jurisdictions actually benefit from such radical policy … or if …
BENEFITTING AMERICAN SUPPLIERS, WORKERS AND INVESTORS … One of the predicted benefits of the Republican-backed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) that went into effect in January 2018 was the repatriation of U.S. foreign profits and the resulting additional tax receipts. As described by the Wall Street Journal, “Before 2018, the U.S. generally taxed foreign …
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AND PRESENT MANIPULATION OF THE BLACK VOTE … In these early days of the next presidential election cycle, we’re already hearing the drumbeat of Democrat and media accusations of racism against Republican candidates. The Democrats’ goal is to foment hatred and scare Black voters away from Republicans in order to retain political power and control …