Lately, “affordability” has been the buzzword du jour driving political discourse. Essentials like food, housing, and healthcare cost more than most younger working people can afford to pay, leaving them to struggle without hope of being able to start their own families or purchase single-family homes in decent neighborhoods. In other words, for younger generations the American Dream is dying.

On November 4, New York elected its new mayor, Zohran Mamdani. At age thirty-four, Mamdani identifies as a “democratic socialist.” His victory signals a further leftward shift in New York’s political center of gravity. His proposed governing agenda goes beyond the traditional policies of the Democratic Party and moves toward a more radical and “equitable” program.

Europe became prosperous through a burst of innovation and capital accumulation during the eighteenth-century industrial revolution that allowed individual freedom to replace feudalistic rents and privileges. A new industrial revolution based on digitalization, advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and automation is in the making, but the reputed analyst Wolfgang Münchau claims that Europe is about to miss it.

In recent months, Federal Reserve officials have repeatedly referred to monetary policy as restrictive. In September, Jerome Powell said policy was “clearly restrictive,” and in November, New York Fed President John Williams stated “I still view the current monetary policy level as moderately tight...” 

With Charlie Kirk out of the way, TPUSA which he co-founded, is now  lobbying for a US war with Iran. 

Nature is stingy; the things we need to sustain life above a primitive level are scarce. Fresh tomatoes, iPads, and rotator cuff surgery do not come forth as easily as the air we breathe, and thus man had to discover on his own how to produce or acquire them.