Stockman’s Corner

Pocahontas and the Dem papooses still in the race talked up the wealth tax last night, but we are not sweating for the nation’s 605 billionaires. Half of them apparently wish to do it to themselves, anyway.

This is clearly not “winning so much you can’t stand it”.

You’d think that the stock market’s 650 point rise during the last three days on the back of Friday’s announcement that a “skinny” phase I trade deal—which has not yet been written—will be completed in three weeks time might qualify as the financial absurdity of the week.

Just when you think the Donald has lost his marbles completely, he pulls a rabbit of rationality out of the hat of Imperial Washington’s Forever Wars madness. We are referring, of course, to his sensible decision to decline the opportunity to put American soldiers in harms’ way in an impending showdown between Turks and Kurds on the northern

To paraphrase an old adage, be careful what you boast about! We are referring, of course, to the Donald’s delusional view that we are experiencing the Greatest Economy Ever and that its almost entirely his doing—including last September’s lowest in 50 years US unemployment rate:

Here are two shocking numbers that both ends of the Acela Corridor devoutly pretend to not matter: