As an addendum to yesterday’s post in civility in government, and the Era of Consensus, take a look at new data released from Pew on faith in government .
The percentage of those polled who say they trust the government in Washington hasn’t exceeded 25 percent in ten years.
As the U.S. trade deficit has been widening for the fourth month running, markets and business experts appear once again bewildered by the events and unsure how to react to them. On the one hand, they had vehemently opposed the increase in trade tariffs and the trade war that has made headlines this year. But on the other hand, they now find that U.S.
The Washington Examiner thinks that Hillary Clinton is a radical. In his column today, Philip Wegmann correctly points out that Clinton is sending mixed signals when it comes to so-called civility in politics. specifically, Wegmann notes how earlier this month, Clinton wrote: “You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about.” But, this week, Clinton strikes a different tune, saying “we have to do everything we can to bring our country together.”
One of Donald Trump’s gravest sins in the eyes of financial punditry has been his willingness to openly criticize the actions of the Federal Reserve. According to the Serious People in Washington and New York, the President voicing his opinion on monetary policy is a dangerous challenge to the independence of the central bank.
In countries under heavy US influence or occupation, the US government has a habit of pushing political programs that would be too unpopular to implement in the United States.
In Japan, for example, the US occupation after World War II offered an opportunity for American bureaucrats to push abortion policies they couldn’t win support for in the United States.
One could hope that the recent acrimony in Presidential politics might engender a reappraisal of the inauspicious power granted that office.
Unless your primary news feed is Facebook, you’ve probably been exposed to the fact that public pensions are in pretty big trouble with funding.
In his recent Reason magazine article, senior editor Brian Doherty assures readers that “cultural Marxism” is nothing but mere “paranoia” conjured up by the “conspiratorial right” to provide cover for their hate of “multiculturalism and gay rights and radical feminism.”
He openly mocks the idea that the unmistakable uptick in identity politics these last few decades has anything to do with “sinister machinations of commies striving to enslave us.”
The California Legislature’s 201–2018 session just ended with an ocean of new laws inflicted upon its citizens. It’s actually difficult to discover how many new laws were passed. There were about 2,100 bills passed and signed by the governor, but many of them were bills supporting things like National Arbor Day or the Ritchie Valens Memorial Highway or Cinco de Mayo Week or Persian New Year.
