Wealth & Poverty Review

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Christopher Rufo
July 9, 2020

Cult Programming in Seattle

Christopher Rufo
July 9, 2020
Last month, the City of Seattle’s Office of Civil Rights sent an email inviting “white City employees” to attend a training session on “Interrupting Internalized Racial Superiority and Whiteness.” Read More ›
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Photo courtesy of Zane at Unsplash
Christopher Rufo
July 1, 2020

The End of Chaz

Christopher Rufo
July 1, 2020
Early this morning, a phalanx of Seattle police officers, armed with long batons and semiautomatic rifles, cleared out the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Seattle can now begin to reckon with the damage. Read More ›
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Photo by Florian Olivio at Unsplash
Christopher Rufo
June 23, 2020
Politics

Antifa Makes Its Move

Christopher Rufo
June 23, 2020
Politics
Behind the scenes, antifa has done the unthinkable: establish political power in major American cities. Read More ›
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Christopher Rufo
June 11, 2020
Politics

Anarchy in Seattle

Christopher Rufo
June 11, 2020
Politics
Seattle’s hard-Left secessionist movement has claimed its first territory: six blocks in the Capitol Hill neighborhood. Read More ›
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The facade of the Federal Reserve Bank.
George Gilder
May 26, 2020
Growth

The Trump Dollar is on Track to be the Weakest of All Time

George Gilder
May 26, 2020
Growth

[The following excerpt is from George Gilder’s May 26 column appearing at Gilder’s Daily Prophecy.] Folks, watch them dance, US pols are exultant about the dollar! Despite the volatility and noise of virus, money manipulation, trade war, high tech disruption, and debt explosion, our leaders believe that the buck is a bastion of value. Amid the $6.7 trillion a day of currency shuffling in Vanity Fair — some 25 times world GDP and up some 30% in three years during a trade collapse — the dollar is floating and flapping on the Federal Reserve fortress like a triumphal banner of monetary stability in an ocean of froth. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell is basking in glory as the dollar seems to Read More ›

Photo by Michael Longmire
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Christopher Rufo
May 13, 2020
Politics

Wuhan’s Other Epidemic

Christopher Rufo
May 13, 2020
Politics
Most know that the Chinese city is the source of the coronavirus — but not that it also fuels America’s deadly fentanyl epidemic. Read More ›
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Jay W. Richards
April 27, 2020
Politics

Why Did Americans Agree to a National Lockdown?

Jay W. Richards
April 27, 2020
Politics
Americans take our liberty seriously. We have the idea of limited government enshrined in our founding documents. We say we don’t like the Nanny State. So, why did we agree without a fight or a protest to shelter-in-place orders? To a total lockdown? It’s one thing to agree it would be best to work from home and avoid large crowds, or to quarantine people who are sick or at severe risk. It’s another for cities and states to order healthy, low-risk people not to go to work or church, or even to leave their houses, and to arrest them if they don’t comply. States can rightly do this only in the most extreme emergencies. Most Americans have never witnessed this, or anything like it — even in the middle of a hurricane. Read More ›