When Tulip Mania Meets the Economy

Watching the stunning collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX over the last few days has been a powerful reminder of one of the oldest pieces of financial advice around:  Buyer beware. That’s especially true for crypto, which has the potential to become a useful financial tool…but not yet. And maybe not for a very long […]

Biden AG Appoints Special Prosecutor Against Trump as White House Attacks GOP’s Biden Probe

ANALYSIS – Double standards galore. Even as the White House bashed House GOP plans to investigate the Biden family’s shady foreign business dealings, Joe Biden’s weaponized attorney general, Merrick Garland, announced he is appointing a special prosecutor to investigate former President Trump and his allies. This special counsel, Jack Smith, will oversee the alleged national security […]

AG Composites to Provide Stocks for New Remington Model 700 Alpha 1

The tried and true Remington Model 700 bolt-action rifle received a major update at the end of summer 2022 with the introduction of the new Remington Model 700 Alpha 1 rifle. The initial factory model offering from Remington has just been confirmed to be paired with a custom AG Composites charcoal gray stock. AG Composites to Provide […]

Kristi Noem Suddenly Sounds Lukewarm About Trump 2024

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has been a steadfast supporter of the former president, but it sounds like she might be hedging her bets these days. Noem, one of Trump’s biggest allies during his time in the White House, rose to prominence through her hands-off approach to COVID-19. However, at the recent Republican Governors Association […]

Trump Remains Favored to Win the 2024 Republican Presidential Primary

The inevitable has happened: Former President Donald Trump has declared his candidacy for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. The serial wailing and gnashing of teeth from assorted Republican corners preceded, accompanied and followed the announcement. How all that plays out inside the GOP – which has been an idea-free shadow of its former self for […]

Biden Sees No Need for New Cold War – Too Bad Xi Didn’t Get the Message

It’s long been clear that mainland China is not a friendly nation to the West or to bedrock liberal values. There are still strong pockets of denial about this – primarily among corporations, which have lashed their (and their shareholders’) financial futures to China’s mast. But as former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd writes, the […]

US House Leaders Request Documents on National Institutes of Health Research

Three U.S. House leaders are demanding the National Institutes of Health turn over documents on government experiments on the monkeypox virus that appear to make it more lethal. House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader […]

‘Transnational Repression’ – FBI ‘Very Concerned’ by Illegal Chinese ‘Police Stations’ in US and Abroad

ANALYSIS – Highlighting the real domestic security threat by China, the FBI is apparently ‘very concerned’ about and investigating the alleged Chinese Communist (Chicom) police stations likely set up illegally in New York, among other cities. This is yet another domestic security failure by a Biden administration obsessed with Jan. 6 and persecuting conservatives instead […]

The COVID Book You Never Knew You Needed

Founder of the Brownstone Institute shares his thoughts on “Gone Viral…” Read the entire thing here at Brownstone.org and then go buy the book! Sometimes, even now, even after writing a book and probably a thousand or more articles on the topic, and following it every step of the way, it still feels like I dreamed the […]

What the FTX Collapse Tells Us About Regulators and ESG

The $32 billion collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX came seemingly without warning. Yet it provides plenty of warnings about some ongoing trends in corporate governance. First, regulators often can’t stop investors from fraud. Second, companies that work closely with regulators often do so for their own benefit. Third, and perhaps most importantly, the current fad […]