“If you want more of something, subsidize it. If you want less, tax it.” –Ronald Reagan “And if you want less efficient markets, over-regulate them.” –The Lonely Realist There are good regulations and bad regulations. In a nation that has flourished under the Rule of Law, clarification-by-regulation...
“Today, the global face of freedom and democracy is Volodymyr Zelensky, the President of Ukraine. That face used to be America’s President.” – The Lonely Realist Volodymyr Zelensky’s March 16th speech to Congress underscored America’s foundational tenets of “democracy, independence, freedom and care for everyone” and,...
“The West needs to adopt a 21st Century strategy to address the economic, political and military fallout from the Ukrainian War.” – The Lonely Realist That great sucking sound you’ve been hearing is America being drawn back into the international arena. Should American leadership again falter,...
“The West has responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by detonating its nuclear currencies. Fallout will include inflation, geopolitical instability and more.” – The Lonely Realist Vladimir Putin has set his sights on attaining immortality by following in the footsteps of Peter the Great and creating...
“When Free Speech is propaganda.” – The Lonely Realist Two weeks ago, Whoopi Goldberg on the TV talk show The View said that the Holocaust was “not about race” but about “man’s inhumanity to man” involving “two white groups of people.” Later that day, she explained...