federalgovernment
We understandably think of slavery in terms of the brutal terms of which it consists. But it can also be properly understood by what it lacks: freedom—over where someone can work, can live, can move. Just as darkness is the absence of light, enslavement is the absence of liberty. By any measure, Juneteenth, the holiday today that commemorates the abolition of chattel slavery in the U.S., is a good day. On June 19, 1865, about two and a half months after the Civil War had ended, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger set in motion the final enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation—which President Abraham...
Reason
"Did you hear the one about the world's greatest watch thief? He stole all the time." But even that guy might be impressed by the sticky fingers of the National Responsible Fatherhood Clearinghouse (NRFC), a tiny corner of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that managed to pilfer nearly $75 million in taxpayer money last year to maintain, among other things, an official government repository of "dad jokes." It's funny—but not in a good way. The agency's website is the source of the cringey joke above, along with other forehead-slappers such as "Why don't you ever see elephants h...
Reason
Today's guest is Jay Bhattacharya, a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration and one of the plaintiffs in Murthy v. Missouri, the Supreme Court case charging that the Biden administration and other parts of the federal government illegally colluded "with social media companies to suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and content." A decision in that case is imminent, and a victory for Bhattacharya's side would make it impossible for the government to pressure X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, and other platforms to ban or squelch legal speech. A professor of medicine at Stanford Univer...
Reason
Half of all business owners (50%) disapprove of the U.S. federal government’s decisions regarding the Russia-Ukraine War. And 67% say those policies have adversely affected their already-challenging business recoveries. Q1 2022 hedge fund letters, conferences and more SMBs Disapprove of Feds' Russia War PoliciesThe No. 1 problem 53% of SMBs would like the feds to fix is skyrocketing inflation, which has only grown more severe after war sanctions.Only 18% of small business owners approve of the way the Biden administration has reacted to the war. That approval rating is 3% worse than Biden's 21...
ValueWalk
I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. — President Franklin D. Roosevelt, January 20, 1937 Q1 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences and more The Change In American LifestyleThe lifestyles of poor, near-poor, and working-class Americans have greatly improved since the depths of the Great Depression. Indeed, long lines of people waiting to be fed in soup kitchens have been replaced by mile-long lines of families in cars, waiting hours for cartons of food. Today huge numbers of Americans sleep in vermin infested homeless shelters, bus and train stations and terminals, pub...
ValueWalk
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. – George Santayana Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and moreWhen President Franklin Roosevelt took office during the depths of the Great Depression, he knew that the times called for extremely drastic action. During a period of just one hundred days, he shepherded through Congress a massive government spending program which created jobs for millions of the unemployed.Four years later, when our economic recovery still had a long way to go, Roosevelt reverted to that old-time-balance-the-budget-religion, and our economy quickl...
ValueWalk
閲覧を続けるには、ノアドット株式会社が「プライバシーポリシー」に定める「アクセスデータ」を取得することを含む「nor.利用規約」に同意する必要があります。
「これは何?」という方はこちら