Connecticut’s Housing Shortage Is Rooted in Government Policies
2024-04-03
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America’s Fiscal Collapse Accelerates
2024-04-02
In case you thought anybody in Washington was driving this thing, they are not. It’s official: the Department of Treasury is now issuing debt at pandemic levels. It’s worth noting the pandemic record was double the previous record, which had stood for 231 years.In raw numbers, the latest numbers for Q4 2023 show Treasury issued $7 trillion in new debt. For the entire year, it came to $23 trillion.This has bloated the Treasury market to $27 trillion — up 60% since the pandemic. In other words, one-third of Treasuries have fresh ink on them. And it’s up roughly sixfold since the 2008 crisis.Meaning if we hit another crash, it could be a lot bigger.Sending US Economy to DefaultsAt this point, federal debt is rising by $1 trillion every 90 days, and US government spending as a percent of GDP
A Field Guide to Dubious Fact Checking
2024-01-24
It’s now 2024—the Associated Press says so.
In case a claim was made that it’s still 2023, the Associated Press wants to assure everyone that that is false.
Now, that’s a fact-check.
What isn’t a fact-check is most of what is produced by the fact-check industry. PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, and each of the in-house media organizations like CNN’s Facts First are merely confirmation machines, apparatus that reinforce the original lie, like putting lipstick on a pig.
They are the ultimate deceptive “third party validator.”
To simplify deception detection, here are a few very common and very slippery techniques the fact-checkers use to twist the truth into a lie—and vice versa—to always look out for.
Let’s start with position. Oprah using a space laser to burn down Maui to build a smart city is
Censorship and Official Lies: The End of Truth in America?
2024-01-18
"Truth is treason in an empire of lies." – George Orwell
The State is tightening its stranglehold on its own narrative as its web of lies unravels. The government’s lapdogs in the news media continue to bark and howl on TV even though a majority of American households have cut the cord. And of course, nothing resembling the truth can be heard in the softball press conferences at the White House and the Federal Reserve.
Newspapers, both online and in print, are flailing about with clickbait headlines, and any substance beneath the headline usually just trots out a sanitized narrative for a declining readership. Social media platforms, with rare exceptions, have been more than willing to quash stories and ban users for political purposes.
And don’t get us started on the septic tank known as
The Government Is Making the Economy Appear Better than It Is
2024-01-17
As the 2024 general election gets closer, Democrats and proestablishment pundits are growing frustrated with the American public for not feeling as good about the economy as the so-called experts say they should. The elitism of this view aside, it is true that traditional economic indicators are pretty good and that, at the same time, people aren’t feeling good about the economy.
Center-left economists have been locked in a debate over whether people are lying to pollsters about experiencing hardship in what is actually an excellent economy or are struggling due to mysterious noneconomic factors.
Others, like Paul Krugman, have decided to blame Donald Trump and his supporters—framing the widespread economic pessimism as a MAGA ploy to win back the White House—a theory Jonathan Newman