The enactment by the Biden Administration of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan (ARP) was a victory for labor over capitalists capital, one that many Americans believe created unintentional consequences for American businesses. Those consequences, however, were very much intended. They are an integral part...
The 13 American Colonies determined more than 230 years ago the kind of democracy they wanted for themselves and their children. Their Democratic Experiment worked for more than two centuries. It’s not working now. Today’s American leaders – and America’s voters – are facing the...
Who Uses Cash Anymore? TLR doesn’t. Do you? Covid-19 has accelerated change the creation and evolution of paper money alternatives … or, insofar as moving towards a cashless society is concerned, Covid-19 has enhanced progress. Exchanging cash is now so … passé! So … 20th Century! And...
The U.S. increased the size of the target on its chest when it used its financial muscle to sanction and impose tariffs on countries that failed to comply with its post-WWII capitalist, democracy-centered, moralistic international order. As a consequence, the U.S. now resembles the deer in...
What’s wrong with 21st Century America? In a single word, leadership … or, more precisely, the lack of it. America has lacked effective, constructive leadership for almost 30 years. That’s an entire generation! America’s Presidents, the successive standard-bearers of the Republican and Democratic Parties – Bill Clinton,...