“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...
Americans have a virtually unfettered right to say whatever they please. Although governments in other countries habitually limit free speech in order to filter their citizens’ thinking and actions, that’s not the American Way. Freedom of speech is incorporated by the Founders in the First...
Today’s TLR is not about music. It’s not about “That Bass” … or “The Treble” (thank you Meghan Trainor). Today’s TLR is about how to target voters in a Presidential campaign – it’s about That Base. In the 2020 Presidential election, President Trump has been targeting...