The Dupes of War

A Villainous Blueprint For Managed Poverty Authored by Veronique de Rugy via The Eoch Times, Writer and philosopher Ayn Rand was often accused of inventing cartoonish villains. Rogues like Ellsworth Toohey in “The Fountainhead” would scheme to seize the global economy’s commanding heights in pursuit of a distorted sense of justice. But the people who hold such ideas don’t just appear in cartoons or in Rand’s novels. Enter Thomas Piketty and company. In early June, Piketty - the French economist whose work on inequality has made him something of a rock star even while...

We Can't Afford $5,000 "Dividend" Checks Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance While the stock market implodes on or ahead of schedule, as predicted, I had another revelation last night that anyone with a first-grade understanding of math could have also arrived yet. We can’t afford this $5,000 dividend check idea. I mean, we can’t really afford anything as a country right now, but it is arguably the worst moment in history to randomly hand out $5,000 to citizens for no reason. I would love $5,000. You would love $5,000. I have yet to encounter the American...

Appeals Court Upholds Ruling Allowing Release Of Biden Audio Tapes Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times, A federal appeals court on July 20 ruled against former President Joe Biden, finding that he was not entitled to an injunction blocking the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his interviews with his memoir’s ghostwriter. “Biden has not shown a likelihood of success on the merits,” Circuit Judges Sri Srinivasan and Gregory Katsas in Washington said. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, sued the government in 2024, alleging it wrongly withheld most...