25 Jul Icebergs and Eisenhower
“America is facing a disproportionate number of existential threats. They can’t be successfully navigated without common agreement that they exist...
18 Jul Heating Up Cold War II
“Nationalism can build a bridge across the partisan divide.” – The Lonely Realist China has a plan, a well-thought-out plan, for absorbing Taiwan and, in doing so, taking a significant step towards empire-building and global hegemony … and exposing the weakness of America's democracy and military. ...
11 Jul Facebook’s Antitrust Problem
The best way for America’s government to address illegality and provide an effective defense against predatory practices is by enacting laws that provide for Americans’ protection. Protecting its citizens is a cornerstone of American democracy, which is why America has so many consumer protection, investor...
04 Jul Regulatory Rigor Mortis: Raising the Dead
"Overlapping laws and regulations hurt America. Simplification and reconciliation should be a bipartisan objective." – The Lonely Realist A distinctive feature of democratic government is that rules and regulations are relatively easy to add … and virtually impossible to adjust revise improve dilute, yet alone eliminate. ...
27 Jun Boiling the Inflation Frog
“Human beings who can predict tomorrow’s stock market action quickly become wealthy. They are considered geniuses. If they could accurately predict the weather one week out, they’d be considered clairvoyant. Unfortunately, no person can consistently forecast the stock market even only one day out, or...
20 Jun Infrastructure’s Gordian Knot
The Gordian Knot is a legend about Alexander the Great in which his cutting the Knot became a metaphor for solving an intractable problem. Alexander reputedly accomplished the seemingly impossible challenge of untying the Knot by efficiently slicing through it with his sword. America would find...