Jeffrey A. Singer
When governments seize private firms in the name of nationalization, the moves are usually politically popular. However, it doesn't take long for the nationalized firms to turn into a financial black hole.
We have two choices as to what happened at the Trump shooting: law enforcement personnel was either (1) disastrously incompetent or (2) complicit in the assassination attempt.
The Washington political establishment's uniform condemnation of the assassination attempt against Donald Trump does not square with the apocalyptic rhetoric they have used to describe him over the past eight years.
Should Trump’s call for “unity” result in further moderation of his politics, the result could ultimately still provide a win for the regime that either desired his death or was at least disinterested in preventing it.
Commonsense safety measures are being replaced in our working culture by an impossible “no risk” standard. A culture of “can do” is replaced by the culture of fear.