“A surefire path to immortality is conquest!” – The Lonely Realist Anyone who has studied history knows the names of Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Atilla the Hun, Genghis Kahn, Tamerlane, Francisco Pizarro, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mao Zedong, and Adolf Hitler. They were conquerors. Their names are...
“One regulator to rule them all; One regulator to find them; One regular to bring them all; And with enuf freakin red-tape bind them.” – The Lonely Realist The SEC in late January proposed regulations that would impose new and costly burdens on managers of private...
“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...
“COVID has trashed America's Big Blue Cities. It soon will disrupt America's Great Middle. Big Data tells the tale.” – The Lonely Realist Although there is disagreement over the appropriate method to use in calculating the number of Americans who have died from COVID-19, all methods...
“Is America’s love affair with TINA finally coming to an end?” –The Lonely Realist As TLR has highlighted repeatedly over the past three years (most recently in October 2020, May 2021 and September 2021), although the Federal Reserve has the ability to deflate inflationary pressures by...