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Red stars in their eyes

March 11, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Irony is still not dead, despite never-ending attempts on its life – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to slag off capitalism at an event to which tickets cost between US$1325 and $1650: …

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Politics

The price to pay for slavery

February 22, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

In a further sign of the Democratic Party’s drift to the left, two presidential contenders, Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris, have now expressed support for a policy that until now …

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Politics

$22,000,000,000,000 and (no one’s) counting

February 13, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

No one gives a shit anymore; after all, what’s another trillion between bipartisan friends?  The national debt surpassed $22 trillion for the first time on Tuesday, a milestone that experts …

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Politics

Farewell to Carbs

February 12, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

In 19 years’ time, Germany will have no more coal mines and coal power plants, bringing to an end hundreds of years of successful history powering first the German Industrial …

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Politics

Getting free money makes people happy

February 10, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Hot on the heels of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal proposal, which includes a call for “economic security for all who are unable or unwilling to work” (or included, since AOC is now …

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Green Deal, Gone Girl

February 8, 2019February 8, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Ben Shapiro twitted yesterday that he is “increasingly convinced Trump created AOC in a laboratory to provide a comic foil.” Whether or not Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was created by Trump in …

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Politics

Davos’ false dichotomies

January 21, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I’m a globalist, you are a globalist, everyone’s a globalist (the term I don’t particularly rate, since like “neo-conservative” in the last decade, it has become a little more than …

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Politics

Do Australians have more fun?

January 9, 2019January 9, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Bari Weiss, one of the few sane, non-left people allowed to write op-eds for “The New York Times”, has just come back from Australia and penned this interesting perspective on …

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Books

20 Best Books I’ve Read in 2018

January 1, 2019 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Happy New Year to The Daily Chrenk readers. If 2018 sucked for you, as it did for many people I know, keep marching on, onward and upward; if it was …

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Politics

Three reasons the Liberal Party is heading for the slaughter

December 10, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Try as I might I can’t imagine any possible, even unlikely, scenario where the Coalition government in Canberra manages to get returned in the widely expected May 2019 general election. To …

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Politics

The economics of the unicorn money

November 21, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

You could probably stop reading after the oxymoron “Bernie Sanders’ economic adviser”, but if you are as tolerant of differing viewpoints as TDC do read on: The radical idea of …

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Politics

Drain the swamp, lock her up, build the wall… and break them up

November 20, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

In case Donald Trump needs more of an agenda post-midterms, here’s a helpful suggestion from Glenn Reynolds: I’ve just finished reading Columbia Law professor Tim Wu’s new book on antitrust, …

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Politics

Capitalism is a sin

November 3, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Two weeks ago, two of the world’s biggest leftist celebrities, Michael Moore and Pope Francis, met briefly at the Vatican, at the latter’s weekly general audience. At the time, I …

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Politics

Welcome to the middle class, world

October 1, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

While the media has been obsessing about Judge Kavanaugh and whatever President Trump’s latest rude tweet was, Brookings reports on an epoch-making event we’ve all missed: Something of enormous global …

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Politics

Till debt do us apart

September 27, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

I feel like the voice crying in the wilderness. I have been writing about government debt, both in the United States and in Australia, for a long time because I …

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Politics

Congratulations Poland, you’ve made it!

September 26, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It’s been a rather rough three centuries for this formerly largest and one of the most powerful countries in Europe. During its golden age, Poland – or the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth …

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Politics

Not getting Uber rich

September 25, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Just as I am sceptical of the social claims of tech boosters, I prefer to take my breathless futurism with a grain of salt. Yes, new technology can be disruptive, …

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Politics

Public sector workers’ paradise

September 20, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

How many people are employed in Australia by all three levels of government? If you have answered “too many”, you are correct. If you have answered “almost 2 million”, you’re …

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Politics

Who’s got the best life?

September 18, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Over the weekend I come across an article published by the Foundation for Economic Education two years ago, titled “Most of Europe Is a Lot Poorer than Most of the United …

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Politics

From minimum wage to maximum bankruptcy

September 17, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Being a socialist means never having to say sorry – or never having to believe in laws of economic. But laws of economics don’t care if you believe in them …

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Joseph Biden: the case for sainthood

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Just like the Reichstag fire, only crunchy

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Break in transmission

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Another “mostly peaceful” day in the US of A

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