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China's Red Lines: A Failure of Central Planning
Evergrande, China's second-largest property developer, has said that it might not make interest payments on its bonds this week. read more »
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California Voters Give Newsom Approval to Continue Regressive Policies Against the Working Class
The working class have spoken, with their votes, that they support Governor Newsom’s bloated, sleepy, and sloppy bureaucracy that caters to the upper class: read more »
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Survival of the City: The Need to Reopen the Metropolitan Frontier (Review)
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation, by Harvard University economists Edward Glaeser and David Cutler characterizes the pandemic as a serious “existential threat to the urban world, because the human proximity that enables contagion is the defining characteristic of the city” read more »
GOP Stupidity is Squandering the Opportunity Created by Woke Authoritarians
It's hardly debatable anymore that the Left is out of control, increasingly influenced and even governed by a radical authoritarian culture that brooks no dissent and over-corrects on all fronts it sets its sights on. You would think this would present a perfect opportunity for Republicans to seize the moment and capture the confidence of moderates and even liberals deeply alienated by this woke authoritarian culture. read more »
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Gavin Newsom Won His Recall. What's Next for California?
What started as a lark, then became an impossible dream—a conservative resurgence, starting in California—ended, like many past efforts, in electoral defeat. read more »
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Mag-Lev May Be Dead; TX HSR on Life Support
A Maryland circuit court judge >ruled last week that the Baltimore-Washington Rapid Rail Company did not have the >power of eminent domain and could not stop a development on land that the maglev promoter needed to use for its proposed line. read more »
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The Working Poor Need Workhorse Vehicles
With more than forty percent of the EV’s in the entire country being in California at the end of 2020, the EV popularity in California has gotten President Biden so excited to want the rest of the country to follow California’s lead that Biden issued a new executive order that pushes for half of all new cars sold in America by 2030 read more »
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It's Not Just the Taliban: We in the West Are Embracing Medievalism, Too
Many of us have spent the last week glued to our televisions watching the fall of Kabul to the Taliban. A marauding and medieval religious cult, the Taliban are famous for banning education for women, forcing young girls into marriage and vicious corporal punishment or worse for those who fail to adhere to the strictures of their religious fanaticism. read more »
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Company Headquarters Leaving California in Unprecedented Numbers
For the first six months of 2021, the number of companies relocating their headquarters out of California is running at twice the rate of recent years and is showing no signs of slowing, according to a study issued today by Spectrum Location Solutions and the Hoover Institution.
The research provides the most detailed and comprehensive data on relocations of California business headquarters from 2018 to the first half of 2021, documenting that departures during the first half of this year are double the rate for each of the three previous years. read more »
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