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Nationalizing America’s Debts

March 25, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank

March 18, 2023

Arsenal of Democracy

March 11, 2023

Trump vs. Biden

March 4, 2023

TLR’s Four-Year Anniversary!

February 25, 2023

Ask Cassandra

February 18, 2023

Fox News

February 11, 2023

Non-Competition

February 4, 2023

Taxes, Taxes, Taxes

January 28, 2023

The Contrasting Philosophies of State Governments

January 21, 2023

Free Speech

January 14, 2023

All That Glitters – Addendum

January 9, 2023

All That Glitters

January 7, 2023

That Was the Year that Was

December 31, 2022

What Will 2023 Bring? – Part 2

December 24, 2022

What Will 2023 Bring?

December 17, 2022

Unpredictable

December 10, 2022

The World According to TLR

December 3, 2022

The Dawn of Fiscal Reality

November 26, 2022

Crypto Ponzi

November 19, 2022

“The Changing World Order”

November 12, 2022

The Hypersonic Supreme Court

November 5, 2022

Socialism and De-Risking

October 29, 2022

The Pause that Refreshes – a Midterm Surprise?

October 22, 2022

The Roy Cohn Defense

October 8, 2022

Cassandra Economics

October 1, 2022

The Ukraine Catastrophe

September 24, 2022

Letters to the Editor: 9/11/22

September 21, 2022

The Southern Border Invasion

September 17, 2022

King Dollar!

September 10, 2022

Letters to the Editor: 9/4/22

September 6, 2022

Secrets Exposed by Affidavit: What it Means for America

September 3, 2022

Donald Trump: Victim or Traitor?

August 27, 2022

What You Need to Know About the Looming Recession

August 26, 2022

Biden and Trump are a joke. America deserves better.

August 25, 2022

The Only Thing That’s Certain is Uncertainty

August 23, 2022

Making America Great Again

August 21, 2022

Illiterate America

August 20, 2022

A Deepening Recession?

August 13, 2022

“The Bedford Incident” and Taiwan

August 8, 2022

Lawlessness in America

August 6, 2022

The Fed Rate Hike & GDP: A New Great Recession?

July 29, 2022

2024 Election Preview

July 23, 2022

Supreme Reality

July 16, 2022

Crypto Reality

July 9, 2022

Separate Realities

July 2, 2022

If something cannot go on forever…

June 25, 2022

Everything is Political?

June 18, 2022

Interview with a Bureaucrat

June 11, 2022

America’s Economic Future

June 4, 2022

The Incredible Shrinking U.S. Government?

May 28, 2022

Democracy Defined?

May 21, 2022

The Dizzying Stock Market II

May 16, 2022

The Dizzying Stock Market

May 14, 2022

Bigger Badder Government

May 7, 2022

The Bees and the Birds

April 30, 2022

De-Globalization and De-Dollarization

April 22, 2022

Don’t Say Gay

April 16, 2022

Regulatory Overload

April 9, 2022

The Face of Freedom and Democracy

April 2, 2022

That Great Sucking Sound

March 26, 2022

A Tipping Point

March 19, 2022

Bad News for America

March 14, 2022

Fallout!

March 12, 2022

The Nuclear Dollar

March 5, 2022

The Path to Immortality

February 26, 2022

One Regulator to Rule Them All

February 19, 2022

The Failure of American Foreign Policy – Re-posted*

February 13, 2022

Whoopi, Joe and Tucker

February 12, 2022

COVID Data

February 5, 2022

R.I.P. TINA?

January 29, 2022

Executive Power

January 22, 2022

Why It’s Called “The Past”

January 15, 2022

Bridging the COVID Divide*

January 8, 2022

The Year That Was…

January 1, 2022

A Tribute To My Brother Mike

December 27, 2021

The 21st Century’s Biggest Loser?

December 25, 2021

Buying Bitcon

December 18, 2021

Will CA Now Ban Guns?

December 13, 2021

The Battle Between Capital and Labor

December 11, 2021

America’s Identity Crisis

December 4, 2021

Joe Biden and Jay Powell

November 27, 2021

Insider Trading and Elon Musk

November 20, 2021

Let’s End American Obsolescence

November 13, 2021

The New Normal

November 6, 2021

The Case for Deflation?

October 30, 2021

America’s Minsky Moment?

October 23, 2021

Inflation Update

October 20, 2021

Biden’s Tax Proposals

October 16, 2021

The Imperial Presidency

October 9, 2021

Immigration Makes America Great

October 2, 2021

Is America About to Break-up with TINA?

September 25, 2021

Games People Play

September 18, 2021

Aborting Roe v. Wade

September 11, 2021

Black Swan Wings

September 4, 2021

Mask Mandates: Ron DeSantis is Wrong?

August 28, 2021

The Reddit Wolves of Wall Street

August 21, 2021

Foreign Policy Lessons Forgotten

August 16, 2021

Ted Cruz is Right!

August 14, 2021

Inflation: Just a Blip?

August 8, 2021

Walter Cronkite is Dead

August 1, 2021

Icebergs and Eisenhower

July 25, 2021

SPECIAL REPORT: COVID Realities

July 22, 2021

Heating Up Cold War II

July 18, 2021

Facebook’s Antitrust Problem

July 11, 2021

Regulatory Rigor Mortis: Raising the Dead

July 4, 2021

Boiling the Inflation Frog

June 27, 2021

Infrastructure’s Gordian Knot

June 20, 2021

Fractured America

June 13, 2021

Cassandra Talks Economics

June 6, 2021

Fake it Until You Make It

May 30, 2021

Musings on Democracy

May 23, 2021

America’s Love Affair with TINA Continues

May 16, 2021

The Global Warming Conflict

May 9, 2021

Intentional Consequences

May 2, 2021

America’s Broken Constitution

April 25, 2021

The Digitization of Money

April 18, 2021

Axis of the Sanctioned 2021

April 11, 2021

What’s Wrong with America

April 4, 2021

Wake-up or Deny, that is the Choice

March 28, 2021

Bubbles?  What Bubbles?

March 21, 2021

Soaring Dragon, Resting Eagle

March 14, 2021

Hooray – It’s Tax Return Season … Again!

March 7, 2021

Education – Another Inconvenient Truth

February 28, 2021

Conscription – An Inconvenient Truth

February 21, 2021

A Postscript to “Lessons from ‘The Bedford Incident'”

February 17, 2021

Lessons from “The Bedford Incident”

February 14, 2021

The Madness of Crowds[1]

February 7, 2021

Degenerative Democracy

January 31, 2021

A Capitalist Manifesto

January 24, 2021

Constitutional Free Speech

January 17, 2021

America’s Economic Perpetual Motion Machine

January 10, 2021

Revisiting the Themes of 2020

January 3, 2021

Do you have an Interest in Interest?

December 27, 2020

The Future Begins Now

December 20, 2020

Cultism – The Media Are The Message

December 13, 2020

A 2020 Holiday Wish

December 6, 2020

Nearing the Edge of a Fiscal Cliff?

November 29, 2020

Pick a Party

November 22, 2020

Rational Exuberance

November 15, 2020

The Parties’ Future

November 8, 2020

The Widening Partisan Divide

November 1, 2020

America’s Media Watchdogs

October 25, 2020

America’s Love Affair with TINA

October 18, 2020

Whither Roe v. Wade?

October 11, 2020

Predicting the Outcome of the U.S. Presidential Election

October 3, 2020

A Postscript

September 27, 2020

To Bridge America’s Partisan Divide

September 27, 2020

An Interview with Cassandra

September 20, 2020

When is a Nation “At War”?

September 13, 2020

The Future of America’s Cities

September 6, 2020

Disrupting America’s Taxes

August 30, 2020

The Fracturing US Dollar

August 23, 2020

CoronaStatism (a budding branch of Coronanomics)

August 16, 2020

Coronanomics 201.2

August 9, 2020

Coronanomics 201

August 2, 2020

Freedom of Speech and the Correctness Culture

July 26, 2020

It’s All About That Base

July 19, 2020

Revenge of the Zombies!

July 12, 2020

Capitalism vs. Socialism, the False Dichotomy*

July 5, 2020

The Covid-19 Alphabet*

June 28, 2020

The Supremes and DACA Dreamin’*

June 21, 2020

Covid Math*

June 14, 2020

America’s Victory … or Al Qaeda’s?*

June 7, 2020

What is a “Fact”*

May 31, 2020

The Covid-19 Bridge Connecting A Bifurcated America*

May 24, 2020

National Health Insurance in America*

May 16, 2020

Coronanomics 101*

May 9, 2020

The Federalism Wars: The Covid-19 Battle; A Footnote to “The Hegemon’s Handbook”*

May 2, 2020

The Hegemon’s Handbook*

April 25, 2020

This Time is Different – A Redux*

April 19, 2020

Education in the Time of Covid-19*

April 12, 2020

The Autocrats’ Playbook*

April 5, 2020

America’s Forthcoming Foreign Policy Crisis*

March 29, 2020

Winter Has Come*

March 22, 2020

The Times They Are A’Changin’*

March 15, 2020

The Convergence of Communism and Capitalism*

March 9, 2020

Panic Attack*

March 1, 2020

Draining the Swamp*

February 24, 2020

The China Virus*

February 18, 2020

Seize the Moment!*

February 12, 2020

The Weakening Dollar*

February 5, 2020

The Failure of Rent Control*

January 30, 2020

The Death of The American Dream?*

January 15, 2020

Axis of the Sanctioned, a Part 2 Postscript*

January 8, 2020

Axis of the Sanctioned, Part 2*

January 2, 2020

Japan’s Economic Wormhole*

December 27, 2019

The U.S. Constitution and The Rule of Law*

December 18, 2019

The Confrontation Between The Inflationists and The Deflationists*

December 12, 2019

The Dismal Science*

December 4, 2019

What if There were No More Recessions?*

November 26, 2019

The Widening Divide; “Pardon Me” Redux*

November 20, 2019

Expiring Canaries*

November 13, 2019

The Authoritarian’s Playbook*

November 7, 2019

The Free Speech Cycle*

October 30, 2019

The Great Disruptor*

October 23, 2019

Market Manipulation, Securities Fraud and Insider Trading*

October 18, 2019

Tales from the Economic Dark Side*

October 11, 2019

Foggy Economics*

October 7, 2019

The Legal Precedent of Impeachment*

October 4, 2019

The Failure of American Foreign Policy

September 30, 2019

America’s Different Democracy, or How Change Has Come to America*

September 25, 2019

California Dreaming*

September 20, 2019

Negotiation as Art*

September 16, 2019

The Faithless Electors of America’s Electoral College*

September 13, 2019

Should You Be a Contrarian?; Twitter Update*

September 9, 2019

Plutocrats and Plutocats*

September 6, 2019

The Twitter Market*

September 2, 2019

The Role of the Corporation in America*

August 30, 2019

A Weaker US Dollar?*

August 26, 2019

What is the Meaning of American Capitalism?*

August 23, 2019

Is This Time the Same?*

August 21, 2019

Announcing the Winners of the U.S.-China Trade War*

August 19, 2019

The Evil of Private Equity*

August 16, 2019

Updates, Part 2*

August 9, 2019

American Exceptionalism*

August 5, 2019

Laws, Regulations … and Conservative Values; Revisiting Rent Control*

July 31, 2019

Lying, Cheating and the Corrosion of Democracy*

July 29, 2019

There’s Something Happening Here*

July 26, 2019

TLR Updates, Part 1*

July 24, 2019

The Big Blue Cities*

July 22, 2019

Be Careful What You Wish For; The Trade War with China*

July 19, 2019

The Coming Recession*

July 17, 2019

It’s Congress’s Fault*

July 15, 2019

The Hollowing Out of America*

July 12, 2019

Insider Trading; Revisiting Eldridge Gerry’s Salamander*

July 10, 2019

The Art of the Deal*

July 8, 2019

Government Regulation*

July 3, 2019

The Essence of a Meritocracy*

July 1, 2019

Rent Stabilization/Control is Back*

June 28, 2019

Leaving the European Union*

June 26, 2019

The Canary in the Gold Mine; Certain Trump-Promised Policies*

June 24, 2019

Can Money Be Digitized?; Axis of the Sanctioned*

June 21, 2019

Deflation?*

June 19, 2019

What is a Conservative? And what is a Liberal?*

June 17, 2019

The Offensive Against America’s Champions; The Abortion/Anti-Abortion Cycle*

June 14, 2019

What is Money?*

June 12, 2019

Constitutionally Speaking*

June 10, 2019

What If?*

June 7, 2019

A History Lesson; Deglobalization = Volatility*

June 5, 2019

Diversification versus Diworsification; American Education as an Exercise in Capitalism*

June 3, 2019

Wagging the Dog*

May 31, 2019

A Delicate Balancing Act; More Turkey Anyone?*

May 29, 2019

The Work Ethic and Demographics; Pardon Me*

May 24, 2019

The Trade War with China: What’s America’s Beef?*

May 22, 2019

The Most Important Takeaway from the Mueller Investigation; A Reader’s Comment on “The Return to Truthiness” in the May 15th TLR*

May 20, 2019

Notes on 2017 Tax Reform; Saving Face*

May 17, 2019

The Return of Truthiness*

May 15, 2019

The High-Tech Arms Race; Tariffs are Bad*

May 13, 2019

Managing The Economic Cycle (Part 2); Let’s Talk Turkey (again)*

May 10, 2019

Managing The Economic Cycle (Part 1)*

May 8, 2019

The Irritating IRS*

May 6, 2019

America at War*

May 3, 2019

Silent Spring; You Gotta Love the SEC (or how to spoil a clever insider trading plan)*

May 1, 2019

Kate Smith; Emails are Forever: Gerrymandering Redux*

April 29, 2019

Whither Taxes?*

April 26, 2019

Elbridge Gerry’s Salamander;The Kremlin says that The Mueller Report found no evidence of Russian Meddling*

April 24, 2019

“Our Country is Full”; Revisiting the meaning of “Red Storm Rising”*

April 22, 2019

The Fabulous Federal Reserve*

April 19, 2019

The Parable of the Earbuds: The Tension Between Consumption and Investment*

April 17, 2019

Will Modern Monetary Theory Work?*

April 15, 2019

Red Storm Rising (with a bow to Tom Clancy)*

April 12, 2019

A Quick Report on the Economic Climate; The Rise of Populism and the Agonizing Death of Compromise*

April 10, 2019

Does Central Planning Work?; University Admissions and the American Meritocracy*

April 8, 2019

The Rule of Law; Recycling … Garbage-in, Garbage-no-longer-out*

April 5, 2019

A Universal Basic Income*

April 3, 2019

Let’s Talk Turkey; A Financial Transaction Tax?*

April 1, 2019

A Simple Take-away from the Mueller Investigation; Paradigm Shifts*

March 29, 2019

Speak Softly and Carry A Big Stick; They’re All Keynsians Now*

March 27, 2019

Will Central Planning Work?; How do we Solve a Problem like North Korea?*

March 25, 2019

The Central Bankers’ Dilemma; Was Pax Americana Good for America?*

March 22, 2019

What is Terrorism?; How Useful are Prospectuses?*

March 20, 2019

The First Amendment, a Free Press and Journalism; A Recession?*

March 18, 2019

Global Economic Stability; A Partial Scorecard of Trump-Promised Policies*

March 15, 2019

Whither Inflation?; A Peak at the Meltdown of Retailing*

March 13, 2019

1937; Our Greatest Resource – Our Children*

March 11, 2019

Does Truth Matter?; Relativism in the Courts (or how to dance on the head of a pin)*

March 8, 2019

The Times They are A-Changin; Qualified Opportunity Zones*

March 6, 2019

Author’s Note

March 4, 2019

Change is Coming; A Perpetual Bull Market*

March 3, 2019

Are our Tax Laws Overly Complex?; Executive Power*

March 1, 2019

Elon Musk; Are we experiencing a 1937 Redux?; The Markets*

February 27, 2019

The Lonely Realist’s mission is to raise awareness by bridging partisan divisions and inspiring thought on issues of critical importance to Americans.

 

  • Nationalizing America’s Debts

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