Month: June 2021

The Stimulus Boom Is Already Over: Now Comes Stagnation

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by Daniel Lacalle via Mises The United States retail sales and jobless claims weakness, significantly below estimates, coincides with the largest fiscal and monetary stimulus in history. Something is not right when these figures come significantly below estimates in an environment of massive upgrades to gross domestic product (GDP). Why? The diminishing returns of stimulus plans are very evident. Artificially boosting GDP … Read more

Is the Fed Getting Burned Again?

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via project-syndicate.org: As in the stagflationary 1970s, the US Federal Reserve is once again denying that its own policies are the reason for a recent surge of inflation, even though there is good reason to think that they are. It is not too late to learn from past mistakes and reverse course – but the clock … Read more

Virginia Student Records Teacher Manipulating Lesson to Force Critical Race Theory

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by Sundance  Friend of the Treehouse John Spiropoulos continues highlighting how Critical Race Theory is infecting the public educational system.  In this brief excerpt John highlights the efforts of a teacher in Virginia who was recorded by a student during a distance learning class. The teacher clearly wants to make race the focus of an innocuous … Read more

NBA, Nike, Apple, Google Silent on China’s Crackdown on Journalists in Hong Kong.

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via freebeacon: The Chinese government’s recent crackdown on journalists in Hong Kong has been met with silence from major U.S. corporations with extensive ties to the Communist regime. Apple, Google, Nike, and the National Basketball Association did not return requests for comment on the arrest of at least seven Chinese journalists since June 17. The targeted journalists are former … Read more