“One regulator to rule them all; One regulator to find them; One regular to bring them all; And with enuf freakin red-tape bind them.” – The Lonely Realist The SEC in late January proposed regulations that would impose new and costly burdens on managers of private...
“COVID has trashed America's Big Blue Cities. It soon will disrupt America's Great Middle. Big Data tells the tale.” – The Lonely Realist Although there is disagreement over the appropriate method to use in calculating the number of Americans who have died from COVID-19, all methods...
“Is America’s love affair with TINA finally coming to an end?” –The Lonely Realist As TLR has highlighted repeatedly over the past three years (most recently in October 2020, May 2021 and September 2021), although the Federal Reserve has the ability to deflate inflationary pressures by...
“Americans are looking forward to a post-COVID ‘return to normalcy.’ If by normalcy, people expect the world to rewind to a fondly-remembered prior era, they’ve missed the turn-of-history’s-page. The past is prologue.” – The Lonely Realist If you’re a Baby Boomer, your memories often turn to...
"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...