1. Central Banking and Monetary Policy
- (Jan 2018) The Late Robert Wenzel: An Austrian Addresses the New York Federal Reserve (3 min read)
- (Sep 2017) The End of Canada's Zero Interest Rate Policy (2 min read)
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- (Sep 2019) A Primer on Negative Interest Rates Part 1 (5 min read)
- (Oct 2019) A Primer on Negative Interest Rates Part 2 (6 min read)
- (Oct 2019) Addendum to a Primer on Negative Interest Rates Part 2: Greek Short-Term Debt Incredulously Auctions at Negative Yields (1 min read)
- (Oct 2019) A Primer on Negative Interest Rates Part 3: The War on Cash (8 min read)
- (Nov 2019) Epilogue to a Primer on Negative Interest Rates: Europe Doesn't Need Negative Interest Rates. Just Ask the Beautiful PIIG (6 min read)
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- (Apr 2020) Explaining the Federal Reserve's Coronavirus Policy Response Part 1 (8 min read)
- (Apr 2020) Explaining the Federal Reserve's Coronavirus Policy Response Part 2: Domestic Liquidity (4 min read)
- (Apr 2020) Explaining the Federal Reserve's Coronavirus Policy Response Part 3: International Liquidity (4 min read)
- (Apr 2020) Explaining the Federal Reserve's Coronavirus Policy Response Part 4: A Primer on Inflation (5 min read)
- (Apr 2020) Explaining the Federal Reserve's Coronavirus Policy Response Part 5: Is Runaway Inflation Inevitable? (6 min read)
- (Jun 2020) Fed Coronavirus Policy Inflation Followup: CPI Falls for Third Consecutive Month (2 min read)
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- (Jul 2020) Once Again The New York Times Proves it's Clueless About the Gold Standard (8 min read)
- (Aug 2020) Congressional Democrats Propose Third Fed Policy Mandate: Fixing Racial Income Inequality (1 min read)
- (Aug 2020) Postscript to the New York Times' Critique of the Gold Standard: Banking Stability Under Fiat vs Gold (2 min read)
- (Sep 2020) Q2 Velocity Declines A Record 26.5% and Medium-Term Prospects for Hyperinflation (Wonkish)
- (Sep 2020) Long Term Inflation Or How Governments Will Never Pay Their National Debts Back Honestly (6 min read)
- (Sep 2021) An Analysis Of How We Got To Today's Inflation Problems (7 min read)
- (Oct 2021) Rising Inflation and Just One Possible Alternative Theory to "Supply Chain Issues" (1 min read)
- (Nov 2021) Opposition to Comrade Omarova's OCC Comptroller Nomination: "Just Three Democrats?"
- (Jan 2022) Someone Took Away The Fed's Snooze Button, Now It Might Cause an Accident Rushing Late to Work (3 min read)
- (Feb 2022) Red Scare McCarthyism”—A Saule Omarova Postmortem (8 min read)
- (Jun 2022) In 108 Years the Fed is Zero-for-Eight Stopping 5%+ Inflation Without Recession (4 min read)
- (Jul 2022) "Fool in the Shower:" Milton Friedman's Caricature of Bad Central Bankers (1 min read)
- (Jul 2022) More Tightening Pressure on the Fed After Bank of Canada 100 bp Hike
- (Aug 2022) Bank of England Tightens, Warns of Long Recession (2 in read)
- (Aug 2022) Peter Schiff Makes a Good Point About Fed Inflation Targeting
- (Aug 2022) Surprise: Stanford's John Taylor Confident 5% Fed Funds Enough to Bring Inflation Down to 2%
- (Sep 2022) Keynes Would Oppose the Fed's Next Rate Hike (1 min read)
- (Sep 2022) Floors vs Corridors: Just How Does the Fed Set Interest Rates? (8 min read)
- (Dec 2022) The Fed Makes Progress on Monetary Inflation, Faces a New Problem (4 min read)
- (Jan 2023) Even Yellen Has Limits, Opposes Trillion Dollar Coin Idea Again (2 min read)
- (Mar 2023) When You’re a Regulation Hammer Every Problem Looks Like a Nail (7 min read)
- (Mar 2023) Quotes on SVB: A Regulatory of Supervisory Failure?
- (Apr 2023) Janet Yellen: Trump Cut Eighteen Jobs At Treasury! (5 min read)
- (Apr 2023) If You Think SVB Was Undiversified, Just Look at America's First 150 Years (5 min read)
- (Apr 2023) U.S. Banks With Largest Held-to-Maturity Losses
- (Apr 2023) First Republic and George Selgin on Bank Runs
- (May 2023) Now California's Bank Regulator Says They Also Dropped the Ball on Silicon Valley Bank
- (July 2023) Fed's Interest on Reserves Payments Swell to $160 Billion in 2023 (2 min read)
- (Sep 2023) Fed Interest on Reserves Payments Rose to $44 Billion in Q2 Alone
- (Oct 2023) Next-Level TDS: Blaming Trump for Obama/Biden Fed Appointees
- (Oct 2023) MMT Objections to MMT Objectors (6 min read)
- (Feb 2024) Now That the Fed is Technically Insolvent...
- Lessons from the Great Depression: What Really Started the Great Depression? (Part 1 - 10 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: What Really Started the Great Depression? (Part 2 - 10 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: What Really Started the Great Depression? (Part 3 - 10 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve System (Part 1 - 9 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve System (Part 2 - 12 min read)
- A Quick Footnote: Friedman and Schwartz on Gold Inflows in the Early 1930's (1 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve System (Part 3 - 7 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve System (Part 4 - 10 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Government Stimulus Spending Made Things a Lot Worse (10 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Taxes (6 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Wages (Part 1 - 11 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Wages (Part 2 - 11 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Trade, Protectionism, and The Smoot-Hawley Tariff (Part 1 - 11 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Trade, Protectionism, and The Smoot-Hawley Tariff (Part 2 - 8 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Trade, Protectionism, and The Smoot-Hawley Tariff (Part 3 - 7 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Agriculture (12 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Economic Policy in Nazi Germany - "Socialist" or "Capitalist?" (8 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: What Really Ended the Great Depression? (Part 1 - 4 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: What Really Ended the Great Depression? (Part 2 - 6 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: What Really Ended the Great Depression? (Part 3 - 7 min read).
3. Free vs Regulated Banking
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Introduction and Orthodoxy (3 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: British Parliament and the Bank of England (Part 1 - 7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: British Parliament and the Bank of England (Part 2 - 6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: British Parliament and the Bank of England (Part 3 - 5 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking—Addendum to a History of the Bank of England: Do Modern Central Bankers Really Abide By Bagehot’s Dictum? (8 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Scotland's Free Banking Era (Part 1 - 7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Scotland's Free Banking Era (Part 2 - 6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Scotland's Free Banking Era (Part 3 - 6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Scotland's Free Banking Era (Part 4 - 5 min read)
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- Free vs Regulated Banking: Introduction to the United States vs Canada (3 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The United States—Crippled by Unit Bank Regulations (Part 1 - 7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The United States—Crippled by Unit Bank Regulations (Part 2 - 8 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The United States—Crippled by Unit Bank Regulations (Part 3 - 6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The First Bank of the United States (Part 1 - 5 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The First Bank of the United States and the Revolutionary War Debt (Part 2 - 6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The First Bank of the United States and the Panic of 1792 (Part 3 - 7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The First Bank of the United States and the Panic of 1797 (Part 4 - 8 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The Second Bank of the United States and the Panic of 1819 (Part 1 - 5 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The Second Bank of the United States and the Panic of 1819 (Part 2 - 6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and The Bank War (6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The American Panic of 1837 (8 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The American "Free Banking Era" of 1837-1862 (7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The U.S. National Banking System of 1863-1914 (Part 1 - 7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The U.S. National Banking System of 1863-1914 (Part 2 - 7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The U.S. National Banking System and the Panic of 1893 (7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The Panic of 1893 Puts One Banker Conspiracy Theory to Rest (3 min read)
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- Free vs Regulated Banking: Canada's Free Banking Era - A Brief History of Canadian Banking (6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Canada's Free Banking Era - Deregulation and Stability (7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Canada’s Free Banking Era - Did Canadian Free Banking Have Any Regulations? (Part 1 - 5 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Canada’s Free Banking Era - Did Canadian Free Banking Have Any Regulations? (Part 2 - 6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Canada's Free Banking Era - Modern Day Criticism and the Post-Keynesian School (Part 1 - 6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Canada's Free Banking Era - Modern Day Criticism and the Post-Keynesian School (Part 2 - 10 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Canada's Free Banking Era - Modern Day Praise and Disagreement (8 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Canada's Free Banking Era - Why Was the Bank of Canada Established? (5 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Canada’s Post-1935 Success and the USA’s Failures (8 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: What Does SVB's Collapse Tell Us About Depositor Losses During Canadian Free Banking? (7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Did Canada's Glass-Steagall Safeguard its Banks in 2008? (8 min read)
- "Free Versus Regulated Banking" now in paperback on Amazon
4. Inflation and the Global Reserve Dollar
- A Primer on Reserve Currencies and the Global Reserve Dollar Part 1 (4 min read)
- A Primer on Reserve Currencies and the Global Reserve Dollar Part 2 (5 min read)
- A Primer on Reserve Currencies and the Global Reserve Dollar Part 3 (7 min read)
- A Primer on Reserve Currencies and the Global Reserve Dollar Part 4 (7 min read)
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- Inflation and Deflation Fallacies Part 1: "An Overheating Economy Stokes Inflation" (5 min read)
- Inflation and Deflation Fallacies Part 2: "Deflation Plunges Economies Into Depression" (5 min read)
- Inflation and Deflation Fallacies Part 3: Why So Many Economists Get Deflation Wrong (4/6 min read)
- Inflation and Deflation Fallacies Part 4: "My Grocery Bill Went Up Which Proves the Country Is Experiencing Inflation" (4 min read)
- Inflation and Deflation Fallacies Part 5: "Cost-Push," "Demand-Pull," "Wage-Pressures," and a Host of Other Official Excuses for Inflation, Part 1 of 2 (5 min read)
- Inflation and Deflation Fallacies Part 6: "Cost-Push," "Demand-Pull," "Wage-Pressures," and a Host of Other Official Excuses for Inflation, Part 2 of 2 (6 min read)
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- (Dec 2020) An Inflationary Critique of MMT (7 min read)
- (May 2021) Venezuela Launches One Million (But Really 100 Trillion) Bolivar Banknote (4 min read)
- (Dec 2021) ASU's Jonathon Barth on Inflation: "It's the Fed, Stupid"
- (Dec 2021) Note to Cable News: Inflation is not Caused by Economic Growth (2 min read)
- (Feb 2022) MMT's Stephanie Kelton: "MMT'ers never said to fight inflation with tax hikes."
- (Apr 2022) Anyone Noticed How Quiet MMT'ers Have Gotten Now That Inflation is at 8.5%?
- (May 2022) High Gas Prices Not Driving 8.5% Inflation Today, Have Never Driven High Inflation in U.S. History (7 min read)
- (May 2022) Progressives Argue Central Banks Not to Blame for Global Inflation: "Are Other Countries Printing Money Too?" (1 min read)
- (May 2022) A Little Inflation Math: Your IRS Tax Refund
- (May 2022) A Little More Inflation Math: $5 Trillion Deficits and a $100 Trillion National Debt in 25 Years
- (May 2022) Washington Post Covers for the Fed's Inflation (again)
- (Jun 2022) Fed Reports Median U.S. Home Price Reaches $428,700 (Can't Imagine the Cause)
- (Jul 2022) A List of America's Past Inflation Bouts: 1690-1983 (7 min read)
- (Sep 2022) CNBC/Bloomberg Also Don't Understand: High Oil Prices Don't Cause Inflation (2 min read)
- (Sep 2022) Biden Proven Wrong on Inflation (Again): Oil Prices Are Down but CPI Hasn't Fallen (1 min read)
- (Oct 2022) A Brief History of the British Pound's Decline (4 min read)
- (Dec 2022) Janet Yellen Blames American Public for Inflation
- (Feb 2023) Stubborn PCE: What is "Sticky Inflation?" (3 min read)
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- (Apr 2023) Future Prospects for the Global Reserve Dollar, Part 1: The Chinese Yuan is Still Not About to Replace the Dollar (5 min read)
- (May 2023) Future Prospects for the Global Reserve Dollar, Part 2: Military Power and the Petrodollar (6 min read)
- (May 2023) Future Prospects for the Global Reserve Dollar, Part 3: A Gold-Backed BRICS Currency (8 min read)
- (May 2023) Future Prospects for the Global Reserve Dollar, Part 4: Longer Term for the Dollar and the RMB (6 min read)
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- (May 2023) Rising Monetary Velocity Continues to Frustrate the Fed
- (July 2023) The Fed vs The Roman Empire's Debasement of the Denarius (3 min read)
- (Aug 2023) BRICS Summit Ends With No Common Currency Agreement
- (Dec 2023) Biden Confuses Lower Inflation With Lower Prices
- (Feb 2024) Two Years Later: The Ruble was Never "Gold-Backed" and Hasn't Replaced the Dollar
- (Feb 2024) Back From The Dead (Again): Bitcoin Breaks $57,000
- (May 2024) Comparing Argentina's Inflation Story with the USA's
- (May 2024) Photo: Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany
- (May 2024) Postwar "Greedflation" Chart
- (May 2024) M2 Money Supply vs CPI Inflation
- (June 2024) "Greedflation" Math Gets an F (4 min read)
- (Sep 2024) PPI vs CPI: More Evidence Debunking "Corporate Greed Has Caused Inflation"
- (Oct 2024) Inflation Has Repudiated $5 Trillion of U.S. Government Debt Since Biden's Inauguration (3 min read)
- (Dec 2024) "Rising Poverty" in Milei's Argentina, Where the Annual Inflation Rate is Down 98% (5 min read)
- (Jan 2025) "Inflation is Always and Everywhere a Monetary Phenomenon" is > The Fallacy of Composition (6 min read)
5. Keynesianism and Keynesians
6. Socialism and Communism
13. International Trade
14. Energy
15. Economic History Articles
17. African Aid
19. Small Bites, LOL's, and Miscellaneous
- (Jul 2019) No Paul Krugman, Red States Aren't Moochers and Your Math is Just Awful (6 min read)
- (Dec 2019) Paul Krugman gets Ireland as Perfectly Wrong as Humanly Possible (2 min read)
- (Jul 2018) Paul Krugman on March 1, 2017: We Can't Achieve [Trump's goal of] 3% GDP Growth (2 min read)
- (Jul 2017) Paul Krugman: California is Beating Texas' "Lone Star Stumble" (2 min read)
- (Mar 2019) Japan Times: Japan May be in Recession Rather Than Longest Growth Phase Since the War, Key Index Suggests (1 min read)
- (May 2020) Analysis: Generations of Keynesian Policies Have Made Us Extremely Vulnerable to the Covid-19 Economic Crisis (4 min read)
- (Sep 2021) Paul Krugman Lauds California's "Progressive Success Story" (7 min read)
- (Aug 2022) A Look Back at Two Decades of Paul Krugman Predictions (6 min read)
- (Mar 2023) Flashback: Janet Yellen Says We Won't See Another Financial Crisis in Her Lifetime
- (May 2023) Revisit This Quote in a Year: Paul Krugman Says Recession Fear Overblown, "The economy is actually looking remarkably strong."
- (Sep 2023) Krugman Now Giving Economic Advice to the CCP
- (Jan 2025) Why Deficit Spending Doesn't Fix Recessions (Part 1 of 2) (5 min read)
- (Jan 2025) Why Deficit Spending Doesn't Fix Recessions (Part 2 of 2) (7 mins read)
- (Jan 2025) Yet Another Unprovable Keynesian Counterfactual Excuse: Controlling Inflation Would Have Cost 15 Million Jobs
- (Jan 2025) Fiscal Stimulus Fails in China (again)
6. Socialism and Communism
- (Oct 2017) Puerto Rico's Debt Crisis: Will the Commonwealth Rein in its European Levels of Spending? (3 min read)
- (Dec 2017) A Houston Grocery Store Convinces Boris Yeltsin to Leave the Communist Party (1 min read)
- (Dec 2017) MiG Pilot Defector Viktor Belenko Visits a Virginia Grocery Store (2 min read)
- (Feb 2018) Venezuela's Economy Was Falling Apart Years Before Oil Prices Collapsed (4 min read)
- (Mar 2019) For the Last Time: Dictatorship Didn't Kill Venezuela's Economy, Socialism Did (3 min read)
- (May 2019) Lawrence Reed's Wisdom and Wit on May Day Protestors (1 min read)
- (Mar 2020) Stalin Screened the "The Grapes of Wrath" as Anti-American Propaganda. It Backfired (3 min read)
- (May 2021) Flashback: Noam Chomsky Praises Hugo Chavez's Socialism in Caracas (1 min read)
- (Aug 2021) Dikötter on Maoist Red Guards vs Militant "Woke" U.S. Youth (6 min read)
- (Oct 2021) Venezuela Shaves Six More Zeroes off the Bolivar Bringing Total to Fourteen Since 2007 (1 min read)
- (Nov 2021) Diköttter on China's Early Communist Days: Similarities Between Rice Farming and U.S. College Education (1 min read)
- (Jan 2022) Applebaum's "Red Famine": 1919 Ukraine Politics Far From Dead (3 min read)
- (Jul 2023) Foreshadowing Marxism: Labor Theory of Value Errors
- (Aug 2023) Robert Service on Trotsky's U.S. Lifestyle
7. Macroeconomics and Business Cycles
- (Sep 2018) The Obama Recovery: How does it Stack Up Against America's Previous Post-Crisis Expansions? (10 min read)
- (Oct 2017) Predictions of Macroeconomists from 1929 to 2009 (4 min read)
- (Sep 2018) Ten Year Anniversary of Fannie and Freddie's Conservatorships (4 min read)
- (May 2018) The Alleged Austerity of the United Kingdom (1 min read)
- (Mar 2020) Thoughts on the Fed's Coronavirus QE and the Economy in General (4 min read)
- (Jun 2020) Paul Krugman: Surprisingly "Upbeat" and Modest About a Post-Covid Recovery (5 min read)
- (Sep 2020) August Unemployment Down 6.3 Points in Four Months: Comparing the 2020 Jobs Recovery to the 2008 Recession (4 min read)
- (Oct 2020) Q3 GDP 2020 Forecast to Grow at a Record 35.3% Annualized Rate (4 min read)
- (Jan 2021) Biden's Stimulus Plan: What's in it and Where's it Going? (6 min read)
- (Mar 2021) The Bad, the Good, and the Ugly of the Democratic-Biden $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Package (8 min read)
- (Apr 2021) Small Doubts Creeping in About the Sustained Strength of the Recovery (2 min read)
- (Apr 2021) Former Fed Vice Chair Alan Blinder: All for 43.8% Capital Gains Taxes Because It'll Turn Out Like 1986 (4 min read)
- (Jul 2021) Thoughts on the Recently Stagnant National Unemployment Rate (4 min read)
- (Jun 2022) Janet Yellen/Biden White House Chorus: "Recession Not Inevitable" (1 min read)
- (Aug 2022) Supply and Demand: What Comes First? Which is More Important? Part 1 of 2 (6 min read)
- (Aug 2022) Addendum to Supply and Demand: What Comes First?
- (Sep 2022) Supply and Demand: Say's Law of Markets and Keynesian Economics. Part 2 of 2 (10 min read)
- (Sep 2022) Addendum to Supply and Demand: The "Sick Chicken" Case of 1935 (3 min read)
- (Apr 2023) Karine Jean-Pierre: "We Are Not Headed To a Recession or a Pre-Recession"
- (Aug 2023) Where We Are in the Interest Rate Cycle
- (Feb 2024) Has Recession Been Officially Called Off? (6 min read)
- (July 2024) Unemployment Creep and Recession Statistics (3 min read)
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- (Sep 2024) What Exactly Goes Into GDP Reports? Part 1 (5 min read)
- (Sep 2024) GDP Part 2: How Much Does Government Spending Distort GDP Reports? (5 min read)
- (Oct 2024) GDP Part 3: Annualized GDP and GDP Across Different Countries (5 min read)
- (Oct 2024) GDP Part 4: Is the Consumer Really Two-Thirds of the Economy? (6 min read)
- (Nov 2024) Per-Capita GDP: U.S. States vs G7 Countries
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8. Microeconomics
- (Mar 2021) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Hails Denmark's $22/Hour Wage at McDonalds, Omits $15 Bacon Sandwich Meals and Kiosks Replacing Humans (2 min read)
- (Aug 2021) "$142,126 annual salary required to comfortably afford a two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco" (5 min read)
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- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Marginal Revenue Product (Part 1 of 2) (7 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Marginal Revenue Product (Part 2 of 2) (8 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Marginal Factor Cost (Part 1 of 2 - "Just Flip Two More Burgers Per Hour") (7 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Marginal Factor Cost (Part 2 of 2 - The Henry Ford Wages Myth) (7 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies Addendum: The “Raise Everyone’s Wages and Companies Will Earn Greater Profits” Fallacy (5 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Labor vs Capital (Part 1 of 2) (5 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Labor vs Capital (Part 2 of 2) (5 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Corporate Accounting (8 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Minimum Wage’s Biggest Fans, Part 1—White Racists, Xenophobes, Labor Unions, and Leftist Intellectuals (7 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Minimum Wage’s Biggest Fans, Part 2—Big Business (7 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Minimum Wage’s Biggest Fans, Part 3—Small Business with Premium Labor Costs (4 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Minimum Wage in Other Countries (7 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: "If wages had kept pace with productivity gains since 1968 the current minimum wage would be more than $24 an hour” (Part 1 of 2) (8 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: "If wages had kept pace with productivity gains since 1968 the current minimum wage would be more than $24 an hour” (Part 2 of 2) (6 min read)
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- (Aug 2021) CNBC's Sorkin to Leahy: Aren't Government Subsidies Just Pushing Up College Education Costs? (2 min read)
- (Aug 2024) 4,000 Years of Price Controls: A Brief Glance (7 min read)
- (Aug 2024) Argentina's Milei Dumps Rent Control: Rental Housing Supply Triples
9. Fixed Capital
- (Apr 2021) Capital Theory: Productivity of the Ever Given and 16th Century England's Merchant Fleet (1 min read)
- (May 2022) Have U.S. Workers Really Gotten Zero Share of Productivity Gains Since 1980? (7 min read)
10. Competition and Antitrust
11. Healthcare
- The Economics of Healthcare in America #1: Where Individuals (not Averages) Live Longer Than Any Country on Earth (Part 1 of 2) (5 min read)
- The Economics of Healthcare in America #1: Where Individuals (not Averages) Live Longer Than Any Country on Earth (Part 2 of 2) (3 min read)
- The Economics of Healthcare in America #2: Another Myth that Won’t Die: “U.S. Infant Mortality Rates are Among the Worst in the Developed World” (6 min read)
- The Economics of Healthcare in America #3: Why Are Pre-Existing Conditions Even a Problem? (Hint: they weren’t until FDR made them one in 1943-Part 1 of 4) (6 min read)
- The Economics of Healthcare in America #3: Why Are Pre-Existing Conditions Even a Problem? (Part 2 of 4) (4 min read)
- The Economics of Healthcare in America #3: Why Are Pre-Existing Conditions Even a Problem? (Part 3 of 4) (5 min read)
- The Economics of Healthcare in America #3: Why Are Pre-Existing Conditions Even a Problem? (Part 4 of 4) (8 min read)
- CATO's Michael Cannon Echoes Calls for Reform—Employer Funded HSA's for Purchasing Direct, Portable Individual Health Insurance Plans (2 min read)
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12. Government Budgets, Taxes, and Spending
- (Mar 2021) California: Land of Blue State Bailouts, $365,000 Lifeguards, $446,000 Sheriff’s Deputies, $207,000 Tree Trimmers, $270,000 Janitors, $486,000 Firemen, and More! (5 min read)
- (Apr 2021) California Spends $11 Billion on Unemployment Fraud During Covid, Possibly $31 Billion (1 min read)
- (Jun 2021) Yellen and the G7's "Historic" Global Minimum Tax: Anti-Collusion and Price Fixing Laws Don't Apply To Us (2 min read)
- (Aug 2021) Study: Oh No, Jeff Bezos Holds More Wealth Than All of America's Grade Schoolers! (2 min read)
- (Jun 2022) ExxonMobil Paid More Than $1 Trillion in Taxes Over a Decade But Joe Biden Says "Start Paying Your Taxes!" (5 min read)
- (Jul 2022) Now Los Angeles Unionized Lifeguards Make $500,000 Per Year
- (Nov 2022) Are Fiscal Deficits and Debt Worse Under Republicans? (4 min read)
- (Nov 2022) Does the Economy Perform Worse Under Republicans? (4 min read)
- (Nov 2022) Does the Stock Market Perform Worse Under Republicans? And Does Political Party Even Matter? (5 min read)
- (Feb 2023) Yes, Uncle Sam Can Now Run $1+ Trillion Deficits Forever (5 min read)
- (Feb 2023) Larry Summers Predicts $2.2 Trillion Average Deficits For The Next Decade (2 min read)
- (Apr 2023) Yellen Confirms Average $1.7 Trillion Deficits for the Next Decade (2 min read)
- (May 2023) Preview of Upcoming Columns on Government Spending
- (Jun 2023) Government Spending, Part 1: Military Spending Over Decades (4 min read)
- (Jun 2023) Government Spending, Part 2: Military Spending vs All Government Spending and GDP (6 min read)
- (Jun 2023) Government Spending, Part 3: Military Spending, the Military Industrial Complex, and "The Next Ten Countries Combined" (6 min read)
- (Jun 2023) Government Spending Addendum: Military Spending and the Discretionary vs Mandatory Budgets (2 min read)
- (Aug 2023) Government Spending: Social Security, Part 1 (7 min read)
- (Aug 2023) Government Spending: Social Security, Part 2 (5 min read)
- (Sep 2023) Government Spending: Social Security, Part 3 (5 min read)
- (Sep 2023) Government Spending: Social Security, Part 4 (5 min read)
- (Nov 2023) Now Washington's Record Interest Payments on Debt is Trump's Fault Too (6 min read)
- (Jan 2024) Biden Inadvertently Proves Taxing the Rich Doesn’t Work (4 min read)
- (Jul 2018) America's Balance of Trade Deficit is not $739 Billion—It's Almost Zero (8 min read)
- (May 2019) Paul Krugman: All for 25% Tariffs on China Imports Back in 2010 (1 min read)
14. Energy
- (Apr 2018) OPEC Cries Uncle; Failed in its Bid to Eliminate U.S. Shale Follwing a Flawed Economic Theory (12 min read)
- (Jun 2018) Postscript: OPEC Licks its Wounds all the way to a Houston Steak Dinner (2 min read)
- (Dec 2018) Mexico's New President Declares Sharp Energy U-Turn (6 min read)
- (Jul 2017) An American Treasure: The Green River Basin's 3 Trillion Barrels of Shale Oil (3 min read)
- (Aug 2017) Solar and Wind Energy Subsidies vs Oil and Natural Gas (3 min read)
- (May 2018) The USA: "Undisputed Oil and Gas Leader in the World Over the Next Several Decades" (1 min read)
- (Nov 2018) A Visual of Shale Oil's Impact on American Imports (1 min read)
- (Feb 2019) U.S Oil Exports: Indian Oil Corp Signs First Annual Deal for U.S. Crude (1 min read)
- (Mar 2019) ExxonMobil Thinks it Can Achieve $15 a Barrel Production in the Permian (1 min read)
- (Apr 2019) Permian Takes the Crown as World's Top Oil Field (1 min read)
- (Dec 2019) "It's Ridiculous." Gas prices spike above $4 in SF and California. $2.09 in Houston (1 min read)
- (Mar 2020) Coronavirus and the Saudi/Russian Oil Price War: Trump Orders Energy Department to "Fill Up" the Strategic Petroleum Reserve With Cheap Oil (1 min read)
- (Apr 2020) Paul Krugman in 2008: Higher Oil Prices Won't Spur Shale Oil Production (1 min read)
- (Jun 2021) Energy CEO Disparages The North Face's Woke Fail on Oil and Gas Production (1 min read)
- (Oct 2021) Britain’s 2000 California Energy Crisis (6 min read)
- (Oct 2021) Twenty More British Power Suppliers at Risk of Bankruptcy due to Regulatory Price Caps; Press Calls it "Deregulation" (2 min read)
- (Jan 2022) Energy Update from Britain: U.K. Power Regulator Approves 50% Rate Increase (2 min read)
- (Feb 2022) Anatomy of a Deception: The Press Rips "The Largest Oil and Gas Companies" for the Sin of Returning to Profitability (7 min read)
- (Feb 2022) Biden Halts Oil/Gas Leases Again Even As Russia Ramps Up its Invasion of Ukraine (1 min read)
- (Mar 2022) Europe Turns its Back on its Own Natural Gas Resources, Volunteers to be Held Captive to Russia (2 min read)
- (Mar 2022) UK's Boris Johnson Announces North Sea Production Expansion to Replace Russian Supply, U.S. Still Stalling (1 min read)
- (Jun 2022) U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Announces Energy Windfall Profits Tax Rate of 65% (1 min read)
- (Jun 2022) Biden White House Considering Adding 25% Energy Windfall Profits Tax (1 min read)
- (Jun 2022) ExxonMobil's Quarterly Profits vs Apple's
15. Economic History Articles
- (Sep 2017) The 1950's Weren't America's Most Prosperous Decade: It's Not Even Close (4 min read)
- (Jan 2019) Herb Kelleher: The Man Who Democratized Air Travel (4 min read)
- (Jul 2019) How Economic Regulations Almost Killed the American Revolution—Until Free Markets Saved It (4 min read)
- (Sep 2022) 19th Century Railroad Baron James J. Hill on America's Capital (1 min read)
- (Feb 2024) When Was History's First Monetary Inflation? (4 min read)
16. Political and Economic History of China
- (Oct 2023) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 1: The Qin Dynasty (7 min read)
- (Oct 2023) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 2: The Han Dynasty and Xinjiang (7 min read)
- (Oct 2023) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 3: The Tang Dynasty (7 min read)
- (Nov 2023) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 4: The Violent Fall of the Tang Dynasty (6 min read)
- (Nov 2023) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 5: The Song and Southern Song Dynasties (7 min read)
- (Dec 2023) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 6: The Mongols before the Yuan Dynasty (5 min read)
- (Dec 2023) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 7: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), Kublai Khan and Marco Polo (7 min read)
- (Jan 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 8: The Decline and Fall of the Yuan Dynasty (6 min read)
- (Jan 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 9: The Ming Dynasty of 1368-1644 (6 min read)
- (Jan 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 10: The Fall of the Ming Dynasty (7 min read)
- (Feb 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 11: The Early Qing Dynasty's Pacification of China (6 min read)
- (Mar 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 12: The Kangxi Emperor Launches the “High Qing”(5 min read)
- (Mar 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 13: The Great Qianlong Emperor and the Pinnacle of the Qing Dynasty (6 min read)
- (Mar 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 14: The Most Corrupt Official in Chinese History Bankrupts the Qing Dynasty (6 min read)
- (Apr 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 15: Lord Macartney and the British Arrive (7 min read)
- (Apr 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 16: British Diplomacy Tries and Fails Again in 1816 (7 min read)
- (Apr 2024) A Political and Economic History of China: Part 17: The First Opium War (7 min read)
- (May 2024) A Political and Economic History of China: Part 18: The Second Opium War and Burning of the Summer Palace (7 min read)
- (May 2024) A Political and Economic History of China: Part 19: The Taiping Rebellion of 1851-1864, Part 1 of 2 (7 min read)
- (May 2024) A Political and Economic History of China: Part 20: The Taiping Rebellion of 1851-1864, Part 2 of 2 (7 min read)
- (June 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 21: The Empress Dowager Cixi and the Qing dynasty’s closing years (1861-1908 - 7 min read)
- (June 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 22: The Boxer Rebellion of 1900 (6 min read)
- (July 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 23: Sun Yat-sen and the Anticlimactic Collapse of the Qing Dynasty (7 min read)
- (July 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 24: The Qing Dynasty’s Legacy (9 min read)
- (Nov 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 25: The Republican Era of 1912-1928, Part 1—Domestic Power Struggles (6 min read)
- (Nov 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 26: The Republican Era of 1912-1928, Part 2—International Power Struggles (6 min read)
- (Dec 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 27: Chiang Kai-shek Rises to Power (5 min read)
- (Dec 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 28: The Northern Expedition of 1926-28 and Chiang Kai-shek Turns on the CCP (6 min read)
- (Feb 2025) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 29: The First Nationalist-Communist Civil War of 1927-1936, Part 1 of 2 (5 min read)
- (Feb 2025) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 30: The First Nationalist-Communist Civil War of 1927-1936, Part 2 of 2 (6 min read)
- (Mar 2025) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 31: The Xi’an Incident Ends The First Nationalist-Communist Civil War (1936 - 7 min read)
17. African Aid
- Dambisa Moyo: Does Africa Really Need More Government Aid, or More Capital Investment? (3 min read)
- Africa Postscript #1: Bill Gates vs Kumi Naidoo vs Bono. Only One of These Three Gets It (2 min read)
- Africa Postscript #2: Dambisa Moyo and Economic Development vs Kumi Naidoo and Reparations for Colonialism (2 min read)
- Africa Postscript #3:Bill Gates Denounces Dambisa Moyo for “Promoting Evil" (3 min read)
18. California and San Francisco
- (Oct 2018) The Snapcrap App: San Francisco Capitalism Still Has a Pulse
- (May 2019) Salesforce Chairman: San Francisco's Homeless Crisis the Result of "Unregulated Capitalism, Unbridled Capitalism, Capitalism Run Amok"
- (Feb 2020) San Francisco's "Poop Patrol" Chief Arrested by FBI on Bribery, Corruption Charges as Human Feces Complaints and Homeless Budget Both Soar to New Heights
- (Mar 2021) San Francisco Puts Homeless in Parking Lots Tents... For $61,068 Per Tent
- (Jun 2021) California Legislature Proposes New "Wealth Tax" and 16.8% Top Income Tax Rate (1 min read)
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- (Oct 2021) How the Hell Can You Stand to Live in San Francisco? Part 1 (Homelessness, Shoplifting, Store Closures, Business Exodus - 7 min read)
- (Nov 2021) How the Hell Can You Stand to Live in San Francisco? Part 2 (Home Prices - 8 min read)
- (Nov 2021) Local San Francisco News Profiles Million-Dollar Condos Besieged by Homeless Drug Addicts
- (Nov 2021) Tourists Warned Not to Rent Cars in San Francisco due to Epidemic of Auto Break-Ins
- (Nov 2021) How the Hell Can You Stand to Live in San Francisco? Part 3 (Rent Contol -8 min read)
- (Dec 2021) How the Hell Can You Stand to Live in San Francisco? Part 4 (Taxes and Gas Prices - 6 min read)
- (Dec 2021) How the Hell Can You Stand to Live in San Francisco? Part 5 (Electricity Rates and Blackouts, Bridge Tolls - 7 min read)
- (Dec 2021) How the Hell Can You Stand to Live in San Francisco? Part 6 (Muni - 7 min read)
- (Dec 2021) How the Hell Can You Stand to Live in San Francisco? Part 7 (BART and Minimum Wage - 7 min read)
- (Aug 2024) How the Hell Can You Stand to Live in San Francisco? Part 8 (SFO Airport Runways/Delays - 5 min read)
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- (Feb 2022) Bay Area Residents Asked to Allow Vagrants into Their Homes to Tackle Homelessness Crisis
- (Jul 2022) S.F. D.A. Chesa Boudin's Lasting Legacy: Even the Advil and Tylenol are Locked Up
- (Sep 2022) San Francisco Thieves Steal Police Catalytic Converters Right in Front of the Station
- (Oct 2022) San Francisco Rent Control: 60,000+ Units Vacant For a City of 850,000 (2 min read)
- (Jan 2023) America's Highest Taxes and California Projects a $22.5 Billion Deficit... and We're Not Even in a Recession Yet (4 min read)
- (Jan 2023) Gavin Newsom Fact Check: "95% of Texans pay higher taxes than Californians" (4 min read)
- (Jan 2023) San Francisco Walgreens Bubble Gum, Toothpaste, Candy Bars... and More Now Locked Up (1 min read)
- (Feb 2023) Gavin Newsom Demands Federal Investigation Into California Power Prices
- (Mar 2023) CNN Crew Robbed in San Francisco While Reporting on City Crime Wave
- (May 2023) Now California's Projected Budget Deficit up to $32 Billion
- (Jul 2023) Left Coast Correspondent: Just Another Poop Day in San Francisco
- (Sep 2023) Left Coast Correspondent: Days Before Opening, Giant Spiked Fence Surrounds New SF Total Wine
- (Nov 2023) San Francisco APEC: A Tale of Two Sanitizations, or "Commies Gonna Commie" in any Century (6 min read)
- (Nov 2023) Czech Reporters Covering San Francisco APEC Summit Robbed at Gunpoint
- (Dec 2023) California to Fine Stores Without Gender-Neutral Toy Sections
- (Dec 2023) California 2024-25 Forecasted Budget Deficit Widens to Record $68 Billion
- (Dec 2023) San Francisco Thieves Drive into a CVS, Take ATM
- (Jan 2024) "Emboldened" San Francisco Thieves Drive SUV Through Bank of America Window
- (Jan 2024) The World-Famous "Hall of Mirrors" (aka. San Francisco Target)
- (Feb 2024) San Francisco Police Station Burglarized
- (Feb 2024) Newsom's FY24-25 Budget Deficit Widens to $73 Billion
- (Mar 2024) "Bring Algebra Back" Proposition on San Francisco's Ballot (2 min read)
- (Mar 2024) San Francisco Progressives Bellyache About Higher Power Bills They Asked For
- (Apr 2024) San Francisco Bay Role Reversal: Capitalism Works First, Socialism Destroys Later
- (Aug 2024) Another Bay Area Company Leaves: Chevron Headquarters Moving to Texas
- (Aug 2024) Media Report: Some California Monthly Power Bills Higher Than Rent… But It’s Not California Government's Fault (3 min read)
19. Small Bites, LOL's, and Miscellaneous
- (Dec 2018) On Some Really, Really Misleading Income Inequality Statistics (2 min read)
- (Jan 2019) This Didn't Age Well. Larry Summers: Electing Trump Will Cause a Global Recession Within 18 Months
- (Jul 2018) Massachusetts AG Prefers Russian Natural Gas Imports to U.S. Pipelines
- (Oct 2017) Is Connecticut's Slanted Tax Structure Inviting Crony Capitalism?
- (Nov 2018) Golden Comments: Paul Krugman Teaches Economics and Society at Masterclass
- (Jun 2018) Fake News Winner: Poverty Gets Worse Under Trump (in 2016)
- (Sep 2018) Quick News Flash: China Announces Broad Import Tax Cut
- (Apr 2019) 1Q19 GDP: Business Investment Growth Trends for The Last Four Years (Obama and Trump)
- (Aug 2019) Non-Economics Special Report: On the Ground in a Hong Kong Under Siege
- (Dec 2019) A Look Inside Leonardo DiCaprio's Superyacht
- (Mar 2020) Lawrence Reed and the New York Post on American Pharma and Biotech in the Age of Coronavirus Pandemic
- (Jun 2021) Chuck Schumer Announces He Doesn't Understand the Concept of Collateral and Student Lending (1 min read)
- (Aug 2021) Leftist Media Fail Once Again on Unemployment Numbers (1 min read)
- (Oct 2021) Larry Summers Slams Woke Central Bankers for Risking Losing Control of Inflation (1 min read)
- (Apr 2022) "White Privilege" Hard to Find in U.S. Median Household Income Numbers (3 min read)
- (Aug 2022) Who Has Taiwan Traditionally "Belonged" To? (4 min read)
- (Sep 2022) A San Francisco Refugee Visits DeSantis Country (3 min read)
- (Oct 2022) Ben Bernanke's Nobel Prize Divides Economists and Bankers
- (Oct 2022) Inflated Poll Results (lol)
- (Oct 2022) Is the Free Market Really "Survival of the Fittest?" (2 min read)
- (Dec 2022) Ludwig von Mises: Consumers Are the Real Bosses Under Market Systems
- (Dec 2022) Rothbard vs AOC: Pick One Only
- (Sep 2023) Automobiles: Complexity, Reliability, and CAFE Standards (5 min read)
- (Dec 2023) Biden's Stock Market vs Trump's
- (Jan 2024) Largest North American Banks by Assets
- (Jan 2024) World's Largest Banks by Assets
- (Feb 2024) 1983: Nixon Prescient on the "Double Standard" Media
- (Feb 2024) Why is Inflation Worst in "Greed Free" Places?
- (Apr 2024) Thinking Bono Again...
20. BONUS: Correspondent for Left Coast Affairs and Other Inexplicable Phenomena Posts
- (Feb 2020) San Francisco Voters to Decide on Prop D: A Per-Foot Tax on Vacant Retail Space (3 min read)
- (Feb 2020) The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" at Your Local San Francisco Bookstore (2 min read)
- (Mar 2020) CCP's Coronavirus Propaganda Boasts "We can say with confidence that the U.S. owes China an apology, and the world owes China thanks" (2 min read)
- (Mar 2020) Wokeness and Coronavirus is a Dangerous Combination (2 min read)
- (Apr 2020) Chilean Leftist Trapped in Cuban Quarantine Learns Misfortunes of Socialism (1 min read)
- (Apr 2020) Biden Campaign Backs Trump China Air Travel Ban—64 Days Later (1 min read)
- (Apr 2020) Taiwan and the Coronavirus: With Enemies Like China, Who Needs Friends? (3 min read)
- (May 2020) British Intelligence: All Cell Phone Activity at Wuhan Virology Institute Stopped October 7-24 (1 min read)
- (May 2020) Jack Keane: Chinese Propagation of Coronavirus to Globe Through International Flights Likely a Deliberate Calculation (2 min read)
- (Jun 2020) BLM Rioters Pull Down Statue of Abolitionist Ulysses Grant, the General Who Ended Slavery (1 min read)
- (Aug 2020) Video Reveals San Francisco Residential Parking Woes (1 min read)
- (Oct 2020) Wuhan Institute of Virology 2015 Paper: "We Created a Chimeric Virus... ...from Chinese horseshoe bats... ...in primary human airway cells and in vivo." (4 min read)
- (Nov 2020) Joe Biden's Incredible Post-Election Night Comeback That Happened in Only Three States (3 min read)
- (Nov 2020) Twitter and the CCP Work to Ensure Covid Doesn't Produce a Repeat of 1644 or 1912 (1 min read)
- (Dec 2020) Hewlett Packard Enterprise Latest Company to Leave the San Francisco Bay Area (1 min read)
- (Apr 2021) Conservative Boycotts of Delta, Coke and MLB Begin Just as Shapiro Predicted (2 min read)
- (May 2021) Wikipedia's Search Previews Slanted Bigtime Left (2 min read)
- (May 2021) Followup on Wikipedia's Slanted Search Previews: Communist Mass Murderers (3 min read)
- (Nov 2021) Media React to Rittenhouse Verdict: "People" Protesting are Actually the Revolutionary Communist Party USA
- (Feb 2022) CNN Racks Up Impressive String of Sexual Harassment/Assault Charges, Lawsuits, and Offenses (1 min read)
- (Mar 2022) Yes, Russia has Invaded Literally Every Country on its Border in the Last 150 Years (1 min read)
- (Mar 2022) "Putin Puppet" Trump Sold Javelin Antitank Missiles to Ukraine After Obama Sent Blankets (1 min read)
- (Mar 2022) Vladimir Putin's Red Herring: An Inventory of Nuclear Weapons in Europe (3 min read)
- (Aug 2022) Government "Shoot Up Centers" on Governor Newsom's Desk for Signing
- (Jan 2024) San Francisco Thieves Target Entire Drive-Thru ATM
- (Mar 2024) Communist Vietnam "Ministry of Information" Reporting Now More Truthful Than U.S. Media
- (Apr 2024) Pro-LGBT Apple Investing in Indonesia, Where Gays Are Publicly Caned
- (Jun 2024) 2023: San Francisco Shoppers Finding Human Waste in Downtown Mall Elevators
- (Feb 2025) Trump Derangement Syndrome for the 19th Century (yes, really)
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