The Newsletter

  • U.S. savings habits

    Pandemic-era savings are less consequential today in sustaining consumer spending than they were a few years ago. That is not to say that all the sand has entirely spilled through the hourglass; households still have more cash on hand today than a linear trend extension from the prior cycle might suggest. A more interesting concept…

  • Campus chaos

    Since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th, the conflict in the Gaza strip and Israel’s combat against Hamas has intensified and is now also involving major U.S. universities. Most students seem to be supporting the Palestinian people and an independent Palestinian state. A few are celebrating Hamas, seen as a terrorist group by the West,…

  • The American drug society

    As part of an overall decline of American culture, the scale of drug use is getting worse, and the government is enabling this development. Drug overdose deaths stand at 112,000 a year and continue to climb. That is about 306 deaths per day or more than 12 deaths per hour around the clock. 20 years…