The Autocrats’ Playbook You have to hand it to Hungary’s Viktor Orban. Although he didn’t write The Autocrats’ Playbook, he has most certainly – and successfully – followed it. Of course, you also have to hand it to Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi...
The Times They Are A’Changin’ Most of us have not lived through a “force majeure” event: a hot war … or a horrific natural disaster … or an epidemic … yet alone a pandemic. There have been at least three cataclysmic economic Crashes over the past...
The Convergence of Communism and Capitalism What happens when politicians embrace and blend the essence of both Communism and Capitalism? What strange potion do they brew? Remember the Red Menace, the Soviet Union and Red China? Remember the Commie, Pinko, Liberal Leftists of the ’60s...
Draining the Swamp “Draining the swamp” refers to the practice of draining swampland to reduce alligator and mosquito populations …, in short, to eradicate man-eaters and blood-suckers. But that’s not what “draining the swamp” refers to in 21st Century America. Today, “the swamp” refers to Washington,...
Seize the Moment! The 2020 Presidential race pits profligate big-spending Democrats against the profligate big-spending Trump Administration. The one thing both political parties agree on is deficits – they both want more, not less. For a different set of reasons, each favors huge increases...
The Death of The American Dream? Is it over? Has the Dream that made America great succumbed to the ravages of time … the effects of bad government … the consequences of wrong-headed policy-making? Has the American Dream somehow become the American Nightmare? Or is...
