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MacDonald: Canada Had to Fold Like a Cheap Tent

Last week, Mr. Trump announced the US had ended all trade talks with Canada after the Great White North declared that it was moving forward with its digital services tax (DST). Canada, like every socialist nation on earth, needs revenue. The government meddles and crushes, and this planned decline would result in the government having … Read more

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MacDonald: NH’s # 2 Blah Blah Blah

There are few more enthusiastic boosters for all the great things about New Hampshire than me. I share the data, polls, research, results, and whatever the mighty beast of the internet coughs up. I moved here from someplace else 35 years ago and have been a superfan ever since. As a superfan, I have also … Read more

Tariff and Spend

President Trump has proposed using the revenue from his increased tariffs to lower or even eliminate income taxes — with a priority on removing Americans making less than 200,000 dollars a year from the tax rolls. Exempting more Americans from income taxes — and lowering taxes on other Americans— is certainly a worthwhile endeavor. However, … Read more

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War By Other Means – Chinese Workers Revolt!

I recently reported on news that China was quickly swirling down the economic drain as Trump’s big, beautiful tariffs did the work they were meant to do. War by other means, as already, “high unemployment and rising costs force [China] to address the threat of millions of Chinese milling about in misery with nothing to … Read more

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The Cultural Consequences of the Welfare State

Foundations of the welfare state can be found in Bismark’s idea of the social state, which, at first, was used to fight socialists on a political level, but hell is full of good intentions. Bismark in the 1880s created compulsory insurance for accident, health, disability, and age (pensions). He called them “state socialism” and explained that all … Read more

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Whatever Happened to the Green New Deal?

Fresh off her 2018 upset New York Democratic congressional primary win, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (better known as AOC) and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey announced they were launching an ambitious legislative plan called the Green New Deal. While people who had a grounding in economic thought found this new initiative to be naïve at best and destructive at worst, … Read more

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Solving The Biden/Harris Homelessness Mess

A Colorado think tank has released a report on homelessness after four years of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and nine of the top ten states with the worst homelessness increases are Democrat-run States. The outlier is North Dakota, which might be due for a rebound in the right direction now that Mr. Trump has … Read more

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President Trump’s Vision Fuels Major U.S. Production Boom

President Donald J. Trump’s unrelenting commitment to revitalizing American manufacturing is continuing to deliver results, with another wave of companies announcing transformative investments in their U.S.-based operations — driving job creation and economic growth nationwide. In just the past few days: Click here for more new investments secured in President Trump’s second term. Authors’ opinions … Read more

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Britain—Like France and Spain—Is Poorer than Mississippi

Over the past year, pundits and columnists have been forced to keep asking why Europe’s economy is stagnating and falling behind the US economy. Many of those asking the question are Europeans. One European headline reads “Why Europe is falling behind the USA,” and Le Monde tells us that compared to the United States, “The gap with European … Read more

The Stock Market Is For Rich People Until Its Not

It’s a great time to buy stock in reliable names with low prices—companies with a history of stability and growth. You could make a killing over the long term. Dollar cost averaging will work in favor of any long-term investor doing that (401 Ks and the like). Day traders should see opportunities to take in … Read more

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Who Gets the Blame for the Upcoming Recession?

Over the weekend, President Trump made headlines for refusing, on two occasions, to rule out the possibility that the US will experience a recession this year. The comments came days after the Atlanta Fed announced it now projects GDP to fall by nearly three percent in the first quarter of this year. Those developments, paired with the recent … Read more

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Does the United States Government Need a Gold Reserve? 

Rand Paul, Elon Musk, and several others, have recently called for an audit of the US government’s gold holdings. This has reminded many Americans that the US government owns a hoard of gold—of 261 million ounces—at Fort Knox and other places. On the other hand, the debate will be news for some who have never … Read more

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Stock Slide: What If It’s Withdrawal From Fed Money Addiction?

Democrats are actually happy to see the stock market drop. It’s the first real opportunity they’ve had to point to something that looks real that sounds good coming out of their mouths: tariffs, fear, prices, stock drop, Trump—end of the world. We told you so. You must first grasp this truth. The entire Democrat agenda … Read more

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The Gold at Fort Knox Was Stolen from Americans

In recent days, President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Senator Rand Paul, and some others have pressed for an audit of the US gold reserves, with a special focus on the gold at Fort Knox. This is perfectly reasonable given that the US gold reserves—which are the property of the US Treasury and not the Federal Reserve—have not … Read more

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Trump Cannot Allow a Declining Europe to Drag the US Down

Last week, leaders of European governments got very upset with the new Trump administration. First, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said a return to pre-2014 Ukraine-Russia borders was an “unrealistic objective” in the coming peace negotiations and that European leaders shouldn’t assume American troops would be present on the continent forever. Then, Vice President JD Vance gave … Read more

Doubling Down on Stagnation at Davos

Many market participants appeared astonished to learn that Von Der Leyen and Scholz in Davos were steadfastly pursuing the policies that have severely damaged the EU. However, this is typical bureaucratic behavior. In a predictable move, EU bureaucrats have chosen to exploit the new Trump administration as an external enemy, rather than seizing the opportunity to unleash the immense potential of their economies. … Read more

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How the US Became So Dysfunctional, Oligarchic, and Corrupt

Why has the United States’ government become so politically dysfunctional? How can it be that the nation—partially founded on John Locke’s principles of liberty and Montesquieu’s concept of separation of powers—today has such a corrupt and oligarchic federal government? As the young political union that it was in 1781, based on the Articles of Confederation, the United States was unique. Unlike the nation-states of the … Read more

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