Since October 7th, 2023, we have seen that ideas have consequences in the real world. Phillip Magness is an economic historian who specializes in the economic dimensions of slavery and racial discrimination, the history of taxation, and measurements of economic inequality over time. He also maintains an active research interest in higher education policy and […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/Critical_race_theory_book_display.jpg480640Phillip W. Magnesshttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngPhillip W. Magness2023-11-02 00:26:062023-11-01 07:26:21Decolonization from Theory to Practice
For those who make their living on Capitol Hill and at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the real horror this Halloween won’t be the kids in their Halloween costumes or the scary movies in the cinema — it will be (and is) the return of the Bond Market Vigilantes. Simply put, the Bond Market Vigilantes are a […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/dollarinhalf-scaled.jpg17072560Mark Wallacehttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngMark Wallace2023-10-31 00:30:362023-10-30 14:44:36Halloween Horror: The Return of the Bond Market Vigilantes
As reported in the past few missives on the subject, stocks, and bonds have been having a generally tough time. We warned that this was going to happen, and we were lucky enough to get the call right. Weakness continued through the month of October and just might extend into the first weeks or so […]
Arizona State University President Michael Crow believes we are in such danger that we should amend the US Constitution to empower the government to deal more expansively with climate change. Dr. Crow’s view that constitutional protections of our liberties should be eliminated when they become inconvenient wouldn’t square with the founders’, but his estimate of […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/iStock-1198212848.jpg483724Thomas C. Pattersonhttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngThomas C. Patterson2023-10-30 00:30:252024-01-17 10:22:19Zero Net by 2050 Has Zero Chance Of Succeeding
Kathryn Porter in The Telegraph, has compiled quite the list of failures as offshore wind projects get frozen around the world. Decisions are being delayed, contracts abandoned, auctions left without bidders and almost no new projects started. The awful truth of inflation, the maintenance cost shocks, and cable failures is all too much. Then there was the problem of needing 100 years of […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/wind-park-2057881_640.jpg427640Joanne Novahttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngJoanne Nova2023-10-29 00:28:342023-10-26 07:37:47Investors Abandoning “green” Energy As They Realize It’s Never Going To Be Cheap
As the narrative of the Covid era settles, it looks as if we are intent on forgetting what actually happened and who was responsible. Pandemics have a way of falling out of historical memory. President George W. Bush read historian John Barry’s book The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Plague in History over […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/fauci_china_covid.jpg10801920Helen Andrewshttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngHelen Andrews2023-10-28 00:32:302023-10-26 07:26:16Weekend Read: Mass Madness at Three [Getting Covid Right]
Americans’ purchasing power in the real estate market has been cut in half in less than three years as home prices and mortgage rates rise, pricing average Americans out of the market, according to NBC News. Housing affordability has been cut in half in less than three years since August 2023, when a median-income household […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/housing-inflation-scaled.jpg17092560Will Kesslerhttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngWill Kessler2023-10-25 00:28:412023-10-24 07:40:04Housing Market Half As Affordable Than Just Three Years Ago
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBD) released statistics on Saturday showing that September recorded the most monthly border encounters ever, ending fiscal year 2023, which likewise reported the most yearly encounters on record. The number of encounters along the southern border in September totaled 269,735, far greater than the 232,963 and 183,479 encounters that were […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/border-1781182_1280.jpg9051280Will Kesslerhttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngWill Kessler2023-10-24 00:26:342023-10-23 06:55:59Southern Border Sees More Migrant Encounters In September Than Ever Before
NAR, the Realtor lobbying group, demands its easy-money heroin back that the Fed has confiscated. The national median price of previously owned houses, condos, and co-ops fell to $394,300 in September, down by 4.7% from the peak 18 months ago, in June 2022, according to data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) today. June is […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/fallinghome.jpg339509Wolf Richterhttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngWolf Richter2023-10-23 00:28:542023-10-22 07:43:08Home Prices Fall Further. Peak was June 2022. Demand Crashes, Price Cuts Jump, Supply & Days on Market Rise
American schoolchildren are taught that they are being raised in a democracy, where elected officials pass the laws, bureaucrats administer the laws, and government workers dutifully carry them out. That’s a crock. Americans at this time are mostly governed under rules generated by an unelected bureaucracy, the so-called “dark state”. Worse, personnel and financial matters […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/teachersstriking.jpg427640Thomas C. Pattersonhttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngThomas C. Patterson2023-10-22 00:30:472024-01-17 10:22:19Government Unions Call The Shots
Decolonization from Theory to Practice
/in Culture War, Economy, Education, Featured, Latest News, Liberty, Politics/by Phillip W. MagnessSince October 7th, 2023, we have seen that ideas have consequences in the real world. Phillip Magness is an economic historian who specializes in the economic dimensions of slavery and racial discrimination, the history of taxation, and measurements of economic inequality over time. He also maintains an active research interest in higher education policy and […]
Halloween Horror: The Return of the Bond Market Vigilantes
/in Economy, Featured, Latest News, Personal Finance, Politics/by Mark WallaceFor those who make their living on Capitol Hill and at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, the real horror this Halloween won’t be the kids in their Halloween costumes or the scary movies in the cinema — it will be (and is) the return of the Bond Market Vigilantes. Simply put, the Bond Market Vigilantes are a […]
Stocks Look for Seasonal Strength
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Latest News, Personal Finance/by Neland NobelAs reported in the past few missives on the subject, stocks, and bonds have been having a generally tough time. We warned that this was going to happen, and we were lucky enough to get the call right. Weakness continued through the month of October and just might extend into the first weeks or so […]
Zero Net by 2050 Has Zero Chance Of Succeeding
/in Culture War, Economy, Environment, Featured, Latest News, Politics/by Thomas C. PattersonArizona State University President Michael Crow believes we are in such danger that we should amend the US Constitution to empower the government to deal more expansively with climate change. Dr. Crow’s view that constitutional protections of our liberties should be eliminated when they become inconvenient wouldn’t square with the founders’, but his estimate of […]
Investors Abandoning “green” Energy As They Realize It’s Never Going To Be Cheap
/in Culture War, Economy, Environment, Featured, Latest News, Liberty, National Security, Politics/by Joanne NovaKathryn Porter in The Telegraph, has compiled quite the list of failures as offshore wind projects get frozen around the world. Decisions are being delayed, contracts abandoned, auctions left without bidders and almost no new projects started. The awful truth of inflation, the maintenance cost shocks, and cable failures is all too much. Then there was the problem of needing 100 years of […]
Weekend Read: Mass Madness at Three [Getting Covid Right]
/in Culture War, Economy, Education, Healthcare, Liberty, Politics/by Helen AndrewsAs the narrative of the Covid era settles, it looks as if we are intent on forgetting what actually happened and who was responsible. Pandemics have a way of falling out of historical memory. President George W. Bush read historian John Barry’s book The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Plague in History over […]
Housing Market Half As Affordable Than Just Three Years Ago
/in Economy, Featured, Latest News, Personal Finance, Politics/by Will KesslerAmericans’ purchasing power in the real estate market has been cut in half in less than three years as home prices and mortgage rates rise, pricing average Americans out of the market, according to NBC News. Housing affordability has been cut in half in less than three years since August 2023, when a median-income household […]
Southern Border Sees More Migrant Encounters In September Than Ever Before
/in Arizona News, Economy, Featured, Latest News, National Security, Politics/by Will KesslerU.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBD) released statistics on Saturday showing that September recorded the most monthly border encounters ever, ending fiscal year 2023, which likewise reported the most yearly encounters on record. The number of encounters along the southern border in September totaled 269,735, far greater than the 232,963 and 183,479 encounters that were […]
Home Prices Fall Further. Peak was June 2022. Demand Crashes, Price Cuts Jump, Supply & Days on Market Rise
/in Economy, Featured, Latest News, Personal Finance/by Wolf RichterNAR, the Realtor lobbying group, demands its easy-money heroin back that the Fed has confiscated. The national median price of previously owned houses, condos, and co-ops fell to $394,300 in September, down by 4.7% from the peak 18 months ago, in June 2022, according to data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) today. June is […]
Government Unions Call The Shots
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Latest News, Liberty, Politics/by Thomas C. PattersonAmerican schoolchildren are taught that they are being raised in a democracy, where elected officials pass the laws, bureaucrats administer the laws, and government workers dutifully carry them out. That’s a crock. Americans at this time are mostly governed under rules generated by an unelected bureaucracy, the so-called “dark state”. Worse, personnel and financial matters […]