Price Controls?!

Price Controls?!
"...The last essay in the Washington Post series has a different flavor altogether. Todd Tucker, who is director of governance studies at the Roosevelt Institute, suggests the White House should consider using price controls.

“To ensure that the wealthy do not bid up prices for essential items,” Tucker says, “the time is now to begin destigmatizing greater democratic control over price levels.”
Price controls?! 

PRICE CONTROLS?! 

You’ve got to be kidding me.
Price controls are a terrible tool for dealing with inflation. 

They make no effort to reduce nominal spending. 

And they exacerbate supply constraints. 
...Price controls are a bad idea. 

But support for them appears to be growing. 

In December, UMass Amherst economist Isabella Weber made a case for price controls. And, following the publication of Tucker’s essay, his wife tweeted out praise.
Spousal support is usually unremarkable. 

But Tucker’s wife is Heather Boushey, a member of President Biden’s Council of Economic Advisors (CEA)...Read all!

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History for February 2

History for February 2 - On-This-Day.com

Ayn Rand 1905

• 1848 - The Mexican War was ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty turned over portions of land to the U.S., including Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, California and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. The U.S. gave Mexico $15,000,000 and assumed responsibility of all claims against Mexico by American citizens. Texas had already entered the U.S. on December 29, 1845.
• 1848 - The first shipload of Chinese immigrants arrived in San Francisco, CA.
• 1870 - The "Cardiff Giant" was revealed to be nothing more than carved gypsum. The discovery in Cardiff, NY, was alleged to be the petrified remains of a human.
• 1887 - The beginning of Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, PA.
• 1980 - The democrat scam known as "Abscam" began when reports surfaced that the FBI had conducted a sting operation that targeted members of the U.S. Congress. A phony Arab businessmen were used in the operation.
• 1999 - Hugo Chavez took office. He had been elected president of Venezuela in December 1998.

Spotify unveils new COVID rules for Joe Rogan - TheBlaze

Spotify unveils new COVID rules for Joe Rogan - TheBlaze: 

The snowballing situation surrounding Spotify and Joe Rogan was elevated on Sunday when the streaming behemoth unveiled sweeping new rules regarding "dangerous content" on the platform.

The way we were-----Rum Runners and the Birthday of the U.S. Coast Guard

The Most Successful “Female” Ever to Appear on Jeopardy! Is Actually a B...

First, control the media!-----Facebook Is Taking Over Local News the Way It Took Over Local Voting Offices

Facebook Is Taking Over Local News the Way It Took Over Local Voting Offices
"...now, the Left, led by Mark Zuckerberg, is plotting with activists to take over local newsrooms across America, similar to the way the Facebook founder took over elections offices to tip the 2020 election to Democrats. 

The multi-million-dollar program is called Report for America (RFA).
Local news is in trouble. 

...Since 2018, Big Tech, specifically the Facebook founder and others he’s brought along with him, has been paying for newsrooms to hire green reporters in a plan to seed America’s small-town papers with “volunteer” “corps members” doing “service” work to write “underreported” stories. 

You know, like the “volunteers” in Bill Clinton’s national service program, and Teach for America, and the food corps food police program in Portland, Ore. schools.
The McClatchy chain of newspapers, for example, had on its roster 31 RFA “corps members” at 21 publications...Read all!

Hate-driven garbage from America's leftist morons!-----Police violence linked to higher rates of preterm delivery, heart disease among Black women

Police violence linked to higher rates of preterm delivery, heart disease among Black women
Credit: Northwestern University

Ten-year analysis links police complaints with hospital records, suggesting that the consequences of police misconduct may begin in utero and persist across the life course.
It is well known that Black women experience disproportionately high rates of preterm delivery and cardiovascular disease. New research from Northwestern University suggests that one contributor to these inequities may be the stress created by police violence occurring in Black women's neighborhoods...Read all.

Ron DeSantis Releases New Ad Against Anthony Fauci - Louder With Crowder

Ron DeSantis Releases New Ad Against Anthony Fauci - Louder With Crowder: 

One of the reasons that makes Fauci such a Fauci, besides his propensity for email, is his constant flip-flopping. 2019 Fauci would actually get kicked off of YouTube. To drive that point home, Team DeSantis has announced a new pair of Fauci-Flip Flops. You know, for when you enjoy Florida beaches.

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How they lie!-----Rogan has also endorsed using ivermectin

 

 

Tonight: My default state of ignoring Joe Rogan is upended by legit news we have to cover. I apologize in advance. Let's get into it.

By Allison Morrow

🎙️ SPOTIFY SCANDAL

 

Spotify made an estimated $100 million bet on a Covid-skeptic who dabbles in conspiracy theories when it secured exclusive rights to “The Joe Rogan Experience” in 2020. Now the streaming company is finding out just how much of a liability its star podcaster can be. 

 

In case you missed it: Late last week, Neil Young and other artists began pulling their music from Spotify, protesting the streaming platform’s most popular host, Joe Rogan. The artists’ backlash came in response to a letter from 270 medical experts who wrote that Spotify is “allowing the propagation of false and societally harmful assertions” from Rogan and his guests. 

 

If you’re not familiar with Rogan, here’s a brief look at what the medical community is angry about:

• Rogan recently hosted Robert Malone, a doctor who was suspended from Twitter for spreading Covid misinformation. Malone used the show to promote several baseless claims, the medical experts said, including several misleading or false statements about vaccines and an unfounded theory known as "mass formation psychosis,” which suggests that much of the population has been hypnotized to follow Covid protocols. 
• Rogan has also endorsed using ivermectin, a de-worming medicine used in livestock, despite repeated warnings from US health officials that ivermectin is not only an unproven defense but a potentially harmful one. (When unvaccinated Aaron Rodgers contracted Covid, he said he consulted with his pal Joe Rogan on using the drug.) 
• The host also said he believes — and again, this is demonstrably false — that younger people who exercise and eat healthy don’t need to get vaccinated and have little to worry about if they become infected with Covid. 
• His guests' commentaries are so full of nonsense they’re hardly worth debunking (though if you’re interested, that debunking exists courtesy of CNN, the Associated Press, CNBC, NPR, and many others...Read all.

Lunch video-----We’ve created elites that feel ‘morally superior’: Victor Davis Hanson

Noon-toon

 

American mother became ISIS teacher and leader - TheBlaze

American mother became ISIS teacher and leader - TheBlaze: 

An American citizen from Kansas has been arrested and accused of leading an all-female military battalion for ISIS, the Department of Justice revealed on Saturday. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, was apprehended in Syria and transferred into the custody of the FBI on Friday.

"Experts say"

 

The FDA is outsourcing COVID-19 testing to China

The FDA is outsourcing COVID-19 testing to China

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  At least 10 Chinese companies have received FDA authorization for U.S. testing.
  

"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which has come under fire for seemingly rubber stamping Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) for COVID-19 testing without offering virtually any data-driven or appropriate testing standards, has been delivering EUAs to China-based pharmaceutical companies at an alarming rate...Read all!

Crush all dissent!

 

Biden colluding with the enemies of America...and Europe!-----Biden Blows Up Yet Another Gas Pipeline | The Pipeline

Biden Blows Up Yet Another Gas Pipeline | The Pipeline

• Putin is watching.

...Take seven-billion-dollar Eastern Mediterranean Gas Pipeline. 

In August of 2020 I reported how the Greeks, Cypriots, and Israelis had coordinated plans for a 1,200-mile undersea pipeline connecting Israeli and Cypriot gas fields to Greece and then to Europe.

... The Eastern Mediterranean pipeline would have benefitted our allies Greece, Cyprus, Israel and the UAE. 

It would as well, have provided desperately needed future  energy supplies to Western Europe which has been engaged in suicidal green policies.
...President Biden, in a “non -paper” (an unofficial communication), has notified the Greek government that we are no longer supporting the project, allegedly because it posed a security threat to the region. Except, of course, when Russia wanted waivers to build Nord Stream 2, a non-green gas pipeline to Europe, it had no such qualms.
...Russia has had a large hand in fueling the "green" opposition to energy in western Europe...Read all!

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An INVASION of America!!!-----The border gets worse and worse | Washington Examiner

The border gets worse and worse | Washington Examiner

...Two new developments. 

One, we are learning more about the administration's covert effort to relocate thousands of illegal border-crossers — single, adult males, not families — into the nation's interior.
...Earlier, in Texas, Fox News's Bill Melugin witnessed bus after bus of illegal border-crossers being readied for flights further into the U.S.
...You'll be shocked to learn that the Biden White House does not want to talk about it. 

Last week, Fox News's Peter Doocy asked White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki, "Why is it that large numbers of single, adult men are being released into the United States just hours after being apprehended at the southern border?"
Psaki feigned ignorance — "I'm not sure the specifics of what you're referring to"...Read all!!!!!

50,000 Americans!

 

Anti-Defamation League sparks backlash after changing definition of 'racism' on website: 'Racial hierarchy that privileges white people' - TheBlaze

Anti-Defamation League sparks backlash after changing definition of 'racism' on website: 'Racial hierarchy that privileges white people' - TheBlaze: 

The Anti-Defamation League drew sharp criticism this week after it was discovered the organization changed the definition of "racism" on its website to align with what critics say is critical race theory. What are the details?

They have armed guards, you don't.-----Psaki Giggles: Soft on Crime? What Does That Mean? - Victory Girls Blog

Psaki Giggles: Soft on Crime? What Does That Mean? - Victory Girls Blog

“Then on Fox is Jeanine Pirro talking about “soft on crime – consequences”. I mean, what (laughs) what does that even mean? Um, so there’s some alternate universe on some coverage.

...Maybe Little Bo Jen Peep reads with the same lack of comprehension …

Nearly 90 percent of suspects arrested on gun charges this year are back on the streets, which the NYPD says has fueled a historic spike in shootings that have left more than 1,756 dead or wounded...Read all!

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