Clearing the Tabs January 31, 2026

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I have broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on February 15. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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January 16
The $114 Billion EV Meltdown
GM, Ford, and other big car makers are waving white flags after huge losses and layoffs. We tallied the damage.

January 18
California is Ground Zero for American Descent Into Neo-Socialist Misery

January 21
The FTC’s Case Against Meta Is Discredited Not Just By The AI Present

January 22
Oil Remains the Epicenter of Commerce, Politics, Energy

January 24
Fleischmann & Newhouse Tout Growing Support of Nuclear Power as a Way to Meet America’s Increasing Energy Demand
“It’s safe. It’s clean. It’s one of those energies that is actually attracting people from both sides of the aisle. It’s truly amazing.”

There's Nothing Conservative About Telling People To "Get In Line"

January 27
Trump Purged America's Leftist Toxins. Now Hubris Will be His Downfall.

January 28
Seeing the People Behind Smith’s ‘Invisible Hand’

January 30
California's Middle Class Under Siege
State of Gold Podcast

Clearing the Tabs September 30, 2025

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on October 15. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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September 16
Basic Market Logic Tells Us the Middle Class Won't Pay Off the National Debt

September 19
President Trump Owes His Base Strong Words About the Weak Dollar

September 20
Europe’s Days of Carbon Colonialism are Numbered

September 25
The Decline of Climate Week NYC Shows the Net Zero Dream is Dying

September 30

‘You Can’t Run From Fear’: American Eagle’s CEO on the Sydney Sweeney Uproar
Jay Schottenstein, company’s 71-year-old chief, has uncanny ability to discern what young shoppers want

Clearing the Tabs April 30, 2024

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on May 15. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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April 18
Aggressive Canadian progressivism is descending the country into crazy
Justin Trudeau's expansion of state power over media and technology has troubling similarities to Russia, China and Iran

April 19
Empty or Illicit? NYC Shops for a Solution

Mean Girls Rising
Democrats are increasingly beholden to leftist radicals in their midst.

April 20
Carl Erskine, the Last of Roger Kahn's The Boys of Summer, Passes at 97

April 26

Planners Push Transit, But It's a Hard Sell in Western Cities

The strange death of the family
The world is sleepwalking towards a depopulation crisis

April 29
Electric grid wars are a direct assault on the Western middle class
If we want prosperity for all, electricity must be cheap and consistent. The energy transition cannot leave ordinary people behind

Why London is beating America’s cities
The capital still draws on its imperial origins

Clearing the Tabs September 15, 2022

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on September 30. And note that just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

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September 1

Electric Car Mandates: The Latest Frontier in the Elites' War on the Middle Class

From Sri Lanka to Salinas
Will California - and the Nation - Learn Anything from Sri Lanka's Green Apocalypse?

Pandemic Reversal?

September 4

Can space save Earth?

ESG and Corporate Totalitarianism

September 6

Is the Automobile Industry Being Mandated Toward a Death Spiral?

September 7
Class Homicide
Massive inequality and the rise of a new feudal system have nearly destroyed the chances of social mobility.

September 10
The fall of Los Angeles
The ‘progressive’ elites have run the city of the future into the dirt.

September 12
Washington DC’s Energy Colonialism

Clearing the Tabs June 15, 2021

June 1
All This for 1.8 Percent Growth?

June 3
A Middle Class Rebellion Against Progressives Is Gaining Steam

Joe Biden's Plan for a Fatter, Meaner IRS (Podcast)

June 8
Suburbs are not less social than cities

How to fight climate change and put pressure on China

June 10
The 1980s Called, And It Wants Its Industrial Paranoia Back

June 12
Why America's Oligarchs Are Moving Left

June 15
The Killing of Kern County

Clearing the Tabs 10-19-2018

Some things I've read this week or will be reading over the weekend.

October 7
Whole Foods Explodes The Myth About Big Businesses Targeting The 'Corner Store'

October 14
Real-World Examples of How the Minimum Wage Destroys Jobs and Hurts Workers

California becoming more feudal, with ultra-rich lording over declining middle class

October 17
Republicans’ new rallying cry is ‘Remember Kavanaugh’ and it may lead them to midterm victory

October 19
Arthur Brooks and American Enterprise Institute (AEI) will release a documentary in the Spring of 2019 and it looks amazing: