“Although capital historically has dominated labor in America, labor began reasserting itself in the 21st Century when the Trump Administration encouraged onshoring and erected tariff barriers, a trend that was accelerated by COVID and pro-labor Biden Administration policies.” – The Lonely Realist Which side is going...
"America is a nation divided by economic, cultural, racial and social fissures. Americans agree that this divisiveness is self-destructive. There's more they can agree on.” – The Lonely Realist America is having an identity crisis. That shouldn’t be surprising. Empires like America rise and fall in...
“Self-interest has made Joe Biden and Jay Powell best buds. Joe has agreed to reappoint Jay. Jay, in turn, has reassured Joe that America can (and will!) achieve low inflation and ever-higher equity prices by November 2022.” – The Lonely Realist Have you imagined the conversation...
"If insider trading is illegal, how come so many CEOs (as well as members of Congress and Federal Reserve Governors) get away with it?" – The Lonely Realist Insider trading stories make it clear that, if America enacts laws … and if the American public is...
“America is a country with cutting-edge 20th Century infrastructure, cutting-edge 20th Century business practices and cutting-edge 20th Century government policies. Unfortunately, this is the 21st Century.” –The Lonely Realist America is obsolescing. Progress requires forward movement. America instead is moving sideways …, when it moves at...