I really don’t understand the tremendous apathy that I am witnessing right now. Everyone can see that commercial oil inventories are rapidly being depleted. As I discussed yesterday, the global oil market had about 400 million barrels of excess inventory before the war, and now we have “close to nothing”. But at least we still have the…
Screengrab Social Media/X The blue Danube is showing its secrets. We have been reporting on Europe’s summer from hell, where they are battling high temperatures, wildfires, and droughts. One of the most dramatic cases if the mythical Danube river that is so low that the Nuclear Power Plants in Hungary and Romania had to be…
For a long time, the classic 18th-century song “Rule, Britannia!” by English composer Thomas Arne, with lyrics by Scottish poets James Thomson and David Mollett, effectively served as the United Kingdom’s second national anthem. Its refrain, “Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves,” powerfully captured the essence of the concept of “Mistress of the Seas,” a…
A disastrous Belgrade comeback show became Amy Winehouse’s last, weeks before her death at 27. She’d just come out of rehab and begged to perform. On stage in Belgrade she forgot where she was, handed her songs to the backing singers, and stood there holding herself as 20,000 people turned on her. Belgrade, June 18,…
Screencap of YouTube video. The city of Los Angeles spent a million dollars building a public restroom and six months after its completion, it’s still not open to the public. This is a perfect example of government mismanagement. It also explains why it has been so difficult to rebuild there after the wildfires that happened…
Screencap of Twitter/X video. Billionaire investor Bill Ackman is sounding the alarm about NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, saying his policies will make the city’s problems like housing and energy costs even worse. Ackman has been somewhat red-pilled in recent years. He used to vote Democrat but he became a Trump supporter during the 2024 election….
“You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics.” — Robert Solow, 1987 The economy has been growing steadily since we started to recover from the 2020 pandemic and shutdown; the unemployment rate is and has been near the bottom of the range normally considered to be full employment; and, wages adjusted…
Record Labor Force Dropouts The number of Americans age 16 and over not in the labor force reached an estimated 111 million in July, according to a report from ActivistPost.com citing government data, surpassing levels seen during the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic [1]. A separate analysis from March 2024 placed the figure at…
President Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office – Aug. 6, 2026 President Trump suggested that he wants to see the Department of Justice prosecute Dr. Anthony Fauci for contempt of Congress after the Senate Homeland Security Committee passed a resolution and referred him for prosecution on Thursday. The Daily Caller’s Reagan Reese asked…
Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) on Thursday followed through on his promise to “hand-carry” a criminal referral of Dr. Anthony Fauci to the Department of Justice after a Senate panel voted to hold him in contempt of Congress. “The next decision we have decided is we will forward it. It’s the committee’s verdict that he should…
