Putin was inflexible, obtuse, and focused on issues he felt strongly about. Tucker Carlson failed to get answers to many of his questions, and the two men largely spoke past one another...
In The Spectator, the Americano podcast hosted by Freddy Gray is joined by Todd Bensman from the Center for Immigration Studies to discuss how bad the border really is...
According to the WSJ, vocational and technical training is making a comeback in America’s educational system. Or at least in a part of New England where one of the bigger problems is, “you can’t get there from here.” ...
Your Survival Guy just finished reading Climbing the Vines in Burgundy: How an American Came to Own a Legendary Vineyard in France about Alex Gambal’s journey in the wine business. Not that he needed to do it. He wanted to ...
In The New York Times, Eric Asimov details a growing trend in the restaurant business of eliminating the sommelier. This trend will prove temporary for real fine dining establishments, or they will be closed and replaced by private clubs, as many fine diners know about as much about wine as they do about food ...
At the Manhattan Contrarian, Francis Menton uses the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) as his example of an “utterly failed agency.” Mr. Menton thinks that the Authority is probably the best large-scale example of a pure socialist-model economic enterprise in the United States...
How is it that investors treat their money like they’re living on a prayer—hoping for the stock market to do something for them—but when it comes to everyday spending, they hold on to every nickel like it’s the last one they’ll have? They read, and read, and read about this car and that one. They know this washing machine vs the others ...
In 1985, America was just coming off one of the worst bouts of inflation in its history. Much as today, with inflation trailing off but still a worry in everyone’s mind, an argument naturally broke out between extremists in the financial media over whether America was poised for reignited hyperinflation or a deflationary death spiral ...
