Hump Day Open Thread
Gooood morning you crazy FRers! I got up this morning and saw we didn’t have a new post and we’re up to almost 3,000 comments on the previous post, so I figured that although I have absolutely nothing of any … Continue reading
Gooood morning you crazy FRers! I got up this morning and saw we didn’t have a new post and we’re up to almost 3,000 comments on the previous post, so I figured that although I have absolutely nothing of any … Continue reading
Edit to add with apologies for forgetting! This post was sent to us by Stephen L. Hall. Thank you muchly, Mr. Hall! *** As many readers of this site are well aware of my distaste and disdain for the Seventeenth … Continue reading
As always, many thanks to Eric D. Mertz for this weekly post! *** **China** China’s Growth Unsustainable Per the International Monetary Fund, China’s growth of debt is highly unsustainable. Corporate debt is at an aggregate of 145% above GDP at … Continue reading
Barack Hussein Obama.
As most of you probably know, as of last week, Texas is allowing licensed gun owners to carry on college campuses. The law is pretty clear: University presidents can designate some areas “gun free,” but they cannot designate so many … Continue reading
My gratitude for today’s post goes to Eric D. Mertz. *** As someone who has been avowedly #NeverTrump since at least Iowa, I am often met with a response from reluctant Trump supporters which is somewhere along the lines of … Continue reading
Let’s start the week off with a rant from Stephen L. Hall. *** An advertisement the other morning was talking about some kind of blue awareness ribbon for some cause or another. I thought it necessary thus to express my … Continue reading
Everyone, please be sure to thank Eric for the foreign news updates! *** **China and East Asia** Human History Pushed Back Recorded history in China could be a thousand years older than we thought. The discovery indicates the mythical Xia … Continue reading
Many thanks to The Other Shoe for this post. *** I ask the question, “What is an ‘American’ middle class individual?”, as opposed to the more general question, “What is a middle class individual?”, because I believe there is a … Continue reading
The past eight years have been rough, and we may be in for even rougher times in the near future. The negativity weighs heavily on the soul at times, and I try to throw in some posts that are lighter, … Continue reading