Housing starts usually fall from November to December. It’s something that happens seasonally. This year, from November to December, housing starts for single-family houses dropped by 21.6 percent. That’s the largest drop for the period since starts dropped 21.4 percent in 1990 — so it’s a 27-year low.
Edward K. Glassman, my long ago Harvard classmate, author of Dow 36,000 (predicting Dow at that level by 2005), and current director of the George W. Bush Institute, extolls our free market medical system at FoxNews this week.
Being a government agency means never having to say your sorry. With last Saturday’s botched warning over an alleged ballistic missile hurtling toward Hawaii, we’re unlikely to see much beyong a call for more government funding.
Justin Raimondo writes:
On January 8th, 2018, former Google employee James Damore filed a discrimination lawsuit against the tech giant. Damore made national headlines last year after he released the Google Memo. In the memo, Damore alleged that Google has shunned ideas that disrupt their leftist narrative.
Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century, Jean-Philippe Delsol, Nicolas Lecaussin, and Emmanuel Martin, eds. Cato Institute, 2017
The rise of Trump has dredged up old and bitter debates surrounding the concept of ”America First,” a position Trump frequently advocates almost unconsciously and using his own peculiar terms. Consider this tweet, from 2013, as an example of Trump expressing a populist, America First sentiment regarding both domestic and foreign policy in a few short words:
DEIST: Let’s begin with your assessment of the state of Austrian economics today.
Earlier this week, the LA Times reminded its readers that California has the highest poverty rate in the nation.
Specifically, when using the Census Bureau’s most recent” Supplemental Poverty Measure” (SPM), California clocks in with a poverty rate of 20 percent, which places it as worst in the nation.
