“Crypto was devised to be a transparent, digitized, de-risked, de-centralized financial-technological invention that would overcome the inherent problems of traditional finance. It’s instead opaque, prone to fraud, over-leveraged, highly risky, and packed with unforeseen legal and financial bugs.” – The Lonely Realist Did your history teachers...
"We reject the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States." – Texas Republican Party, June 12, 2022[1] “The war on democracy instigated by [former president...
“How long is forever?” – The Lonely Realist Stein’s Law—named for economist Herbert Stein, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Nixon — states that “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.”* America’s rising standard of living, ever-increasing GDP, global hegemony, and...
“By politicizing morals and ethics, America has done an outstanding job of tearing itself apart, which has fulfilled extremist goals as well as the goals of America's enemies.” – The Lonely Realist Politics should be about ensuring that government operates effectively and efficiently by properly focusing...
“Bureaucratic governments can't subsist by feeding on the vital essence of the public.” – The Lonely Realist Have you watched The Big Conn on Apple TV? It’s a four-part docuseries about an Eastern Kentucky Appalachian lawyer, Eric C. Conn, who between 2004 and 2016 bilked America’s...