You knew it was coming, and now the day has finally arrived that the esteemed professor of MIT, and one of the original architects of Obamacare, Jonathan Gruber, is touring the media circuit blaming the epic collapse of Obamacare on President Trump. Here is an exchange from last night with Chris Wallace on Fox News:
Authored by Robert Taylor via The Mises Institute,
Any state, no matter how powerful, cannot not rule solely through the use of brute force. There are too few rulers and too many of us for coercion alone to be an effective means of control. The political class must rely on ideology to achieve popular compliance, masking the iron fist in a velvet glove. Violence is always behind every state action, but the most efficient form of expropriation occurs when the public believes it is in their interest to be extorted.
Via StockBoardAsset.com,
Last week, I wrote an article titled The Ferguson Effect: Baltimore Millennials’ Worst Nightmare. The Ferguson Effect is a theory where the increased scrutiny of police post 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Trayvon Martin in Florida will lead to higher crime rates.
Back in February we reported of a striking development taking place at Renaissance, arguably the world's most successful (and according to many, politically connected and powerful) hedge fund, where one of its key employees, David Magerman, "mutinied" against co-CEO Robert Mercer, the man who together with his daughter Rebekah have been instrumental in getting Trump elected, accusing him of engaging in actions that would harm the future of America.
From Bill Blain’s latest Morning Porridge edition
“To summarise the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job..”
The best thing about the French Election is I've just won a case of very fine French wine on the result!