“No one works anymore. There's no need to have a regular job and there are too many employment opportunities to choose from anyway.” – The Lonely Realist Those Americans whose role model is television character Maynard G. Krebs (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis) are today...
“The Supreme Court once focused on nation-building by prioritizing Federalism over States Rights. Its efforts were highlighted in Roe v. Wade. No longer. States Rights now rule.” -The Lonely Realist The Supreme Court's 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade divided Americans for half a century. It tribalized politics,...
"Reddit users have organized themselves into 'wolf pack' communities where individual investors act together to hunt hedge funds, activist investors, and short sellers." – The Lonely Realist Social media are fond of describing the Wolves of Wall Street as hedge fund predators who feast on the...
“Those who fail to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.” –Winton Churchill (paraphrasing George Santayana) As TLR wrote two years ago (on September 30, 2019 in "The Failure of American Foreign Policy" linked below), America has been pursuing a failed foreign policy of speaking loudly and...
Coronanomics 201 America’s wealth is eroding. Its economic pie is shrinking …, and slices soon will be getting smaller. The focus of Coronanomics 201 is on the size of America’s metaphorical wealth/wealth-creating pie …, and on how its size has been affected by the novel Coronavirus. America’s...