American whiskey makers must have been feeling good in 1970. After suffering through Prohibition and a shutdown for World War II, they were finally back on track, boasting record sales that year. Little did they know the next 30 years would be one hell of ride…straight down. The year 2000 offered a glimmer of hope that whiskey wasn’t completely doomed; a new generation of drinkers who […]
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The mayor of Missouri’s St. Louis revealed to the media that she hasn’t stayed at her home since July due to protests in the vicinity, becoming the second Democratic politician forced to relocate by Black Lives Matter rallies. “We have not lived at home for two months,” Mayor Lyda Krewson said in a text message to media outlet STL Today. Krewson and her husband relocated “to […]
One hundred years to the day after women first won the right to vote in America, and the country is in a weird, dark place. There’s a kind of brutal symmetry between 1920, when the mass exodus of women from the home and into the workforce supercharged the movement, and 2020, as the pandemic forces working women back into the home. It’s all so retro. Even […]
The numbers are all over the place and the narratives are even more complicated, so what’s the real story with inflation? There is perhaps nothing more important or contentious in macroeconomics right now than the question of inflation. On the one hand, there is a growing concern that rapidly growing money supply and increasing central bank balance sheets will inevitably lead to inflationary pressures. On the […]
Delayed prescriptions, mailboxes being toted away, Americans dying and families wondering if they’ll get evicted. The nation in multiple major crises seems like a great time for the Senate to go on vacation, at least in Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s eyes. In this members-only episode of The New Abnormal, Sen. Gary Peters, Sr. (D-MI), who is leading the investigation into the United States Postal Service backlog, […]
The Trump administration’s anti-China policies, including tariffs and attacks on telecoms giant Huawei, have forced the Chinese government to tighten its grip over Hong Kong, an analyst tells RT. Speaking to RT’s Boom Bust on the developments in the Chinese territory after Beijing imposed its national security law, Jeffrey Tucker of the American Institute for Economic Research said that it’s unclear how the bill will affect […]
__________Col. Cassad The President of Egypt announced that Egypt has legitimate grounds for entering the Egyptian army into Libya to fight mercenaries and terrorists. Egypt demands the withdrawal of foreign troops and mercenaries from Libyan territory, as well as the destruction of terrorist groups. If this does not happen, Egypt is ready to ensure its national security by force, read the use of armed forces on […]
On Wednesday night the Department of Justice released the August 2017 Rosenstein Scope Memo. The August 2017 scope memo penned by then-DAG Rod Rosenstein to Robert Mueller was released with redactions on Wednesday. Rosenstein wrote a total of three scope memos giving Mueller permission to rove around unchecked in a fishing expedition to not only target Trump officials, but to play defense and cover up the […]