Eliot Bakker

Eliot Bakker


  • August 3, 2019

    Public Reporting and the Market

    As investors in the U.S. and around the world parse through the newly released second-quarter earnings reports of many of the largest global companies, headline stories like the $4.9 billion wallop taken by Boeing over its 737 Max serve as a valuable...

  • April 4, 2017

    America Declares a New Drug War

    With their taskforce dedicated to tackling the American opioid epidemic, President Trump and Chris Christie are finally tackling a problem that lawmakers have been ignoring for years. Even with the president’s knack for hyperbole, he in no way ...

  • July 14, 2016

    A Hidden Danger of Brexit: Socialists at the Helm

    Great Britain’s decision to dump the European Union has been met with warm praise from American conservatives, who understandably see the referendum results as a step towards renewed national sovereignty and away from the Ivory Tower bureaucrac...

  • May 27, 2016

    Europe highlights the tyranny of overregulation

    Unlike some other Democrats, Bernie Sanders has never made any bones about his desire to turn the United States into a European welfare state – even as socialists in Europe turn their backs on the policies Sanders is proposing, and countries li...

  • January 20, 2016

    Gun Control: Obama’s Last Gasp?

    Barack Obama’s unilateral gun control decree, in spite of the supposedly historic nature of the event, is just the latest example of Democrats opting for a nanny state approach to every issue from gun safety to healthcare. Deciding once and for...

  • November 22, 2015

    Lame Ducks in the South China Sea

    Talk about the White House’s lack of leadership! The concluding remarks of the annual Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation that took place in the Philippines, with the participation of both Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping...

  • July 8, 2015

    The Problem with Puerto Rico

    What an interesting time to spring a thing like this on us -- with the problems of Greece and the concern it’s causing the rest of the world -- now Puerto Rico? Democratic Governor Alejandro Garcia Padilla has calmly announced that Puerto Ri...

  • March 7, 2015

    Nigeria vs. Islamic Extremism

    In late February, Reverend Phyllis Sortor, a Free Methodist Church missionary and aid worker, was kidnapped in Nigeria while offering humanitarian services in the region. It is widely believed that Boko Haram, already responsible for 4000 deaths this...

  • December 3, 2014

    Obama is Failing our Military

    Amid jumbled half-hearted pledges to recast the way America is perceived in the world and fiery speeches that proclaim the limits of American power while cutting the defense budget, Obama is failing our military and is endangering our national securi...