By Alan Caruba Pundits and experts of every description love to predict and pontificate. That they are often famously wrong doesn’t get the attention it deserves. The Great Depression began on October 29, 1929 with the stock market crash. On October 17th, Irving Fisher, a professor of economics at Yale University, said, “Stocks have reached…
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A Failed Congress
By Alan Caruba This is for all those who voted to reelect Obama or those who stayed home on Election Day 2012 because they found Republican candidates who talked about unemployment and the need for more jobs unappealing. The blame falls on the Democratic Party that controls the Senate and the White House. The blame…
You Know You’re a Moron If…
By Alan Caruba We now know the theme of Barack Obama’s campaign in the remaining weeks before the November 6 election. In an interview with the Associated Press last week he said that Mitt Romney holds “extreme positions.” This is in line with the immediate Democratic Party attack launched against Paul Ryan as a “radical.”…
Obama’s Disappearing Youth Vote
By Alan Caruba In 1956, Adlai Stevenson was campaigning for the presidency a second time and stopped by the campus of the University of Miami. I was asked to join the line of students who got to shake his hand. Suffice to say I was utterly clueless as to who he was and what the…
America’s Fearful Future
By Alan Caruba It’s a cliché that nations and men repeat the same errors, stumbling into various crisises. The locations may change, but the patterns of history remain. The world is teetering on a new Great Depression. Democracies are at risk. In the 1930s there were an estimated two billion people worldwide. Today there are…
Why Obama Will Lose in November
By Alan Caruba I received a campaign letter from Michelle Obama the other day. This is especially surprising because I am a registered Republican; hardly a likely prospect to contribute to her husband’s reelection efforts. “Every day I learn about the challenges and the struggles—the doctor bills they can’t pay or the mortgage they can…
It’s the Economy, Stupid!
By Alan Caruba It is interesting to see how intently foreigners are watching the run-up to the 2012 national elections, particularly as regards whether President Obama could be reelected. Hardly a day goes by that I do not receive inquiries from places like South Africa, Israel, or England. Some offer comments on my Facebook page,…
Flatlining the Economy
By Alan Caruba As is well known, I am an expert on practically everything. This is why I am obscenely wealthy, sought after by the major media, and am an object of desire even in my early 70s. And! I have a bridge to Brooklyn to sell you! Despite my shortcomings, I can and I…
Time to Rid the Streets of the “Occupy” Movement
By Alan Caruba Is there any doubt left in the minds of observers of the Occupy Wall Street movement tends toward violence and is in need of control? The mayors of the cities—some seventy at last count—that are being occupied need to crack down on it. Not all agree, of course. Among the list of…
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