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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: …
Read MoreIrony 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: …
Read MoreIn 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 …
Read MoreNo 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 …
Read MoreIn 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 …
Read MoreHot 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 …
Read MoreBen 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 …
Read MoreI’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 …
Read MoreBari 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 …
Read MoreHappy 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 …
Read MoreTry 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 …
Read MoreYou 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 …
Read MoreIn 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, …
Read MoreTwo 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 …
Read MoreWhile 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 …
Read MoreI 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 …
Read MoreIt’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 …
Read MoreJust 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, …
Read MoreHow 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 …
Read MoreOver 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 …
Read MoreBeing 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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