Howard Richman

Howard Richman


  • The other huge budget deficit is at the Fed!

    December 2, 2024

    The other huge budget deficit is at the Fed!

    President Trump’s DOGE will be trying to reduce the federal government’s huge budget deficit, but there is yet another big budget deficit in Washington. In a November 22 tweet, Heritage Foundation economist E.J. Antoni highlighted the ...

  • Trump’s tariffs will contribute to the US economic boom

    November 7, 2024

    Trump’s tariffs will contribute to the US economic boom

    U.S. stock markets anticipate Trump’s upcoming economic boom, but few economists realize that it will be partly due to his tariff plans.  Among those few are Peter Navarro, Trump’s adviser and author of 20 economics books; Art L...

  • Similarities between Alexander Hamilton and JD Vance

    July 23, 2024

    Similarities between Alexander Hamilton and JD Vance

    The childhoods of Alexander Hamilton and JD Vance were quite similar, and the similarities don’t end there. Both had the strong writing skills, energy, industry, and intelligence which led others to take them under their wings and advance their...

  • Nobel laureates wrong again: Trump would bring down inflation

    July 6, 2024

    Nobel laureates wrong again: Trump would bring down inflation

    On June 25, 16 Nobel Prize laureates signed an open letter that held that the election of Trump over Biden would cause inflation to increase.  Thirteen of them had previously signed a 2021 letter that predicted that Biden’s Build Back...

  • Needed: New weapons that will actually work!

    May 29, 2024

    Needed: New weapons that will actually work!

    War drives innovation. Weapons systems that were cutting edge at the beginning of a great power war often are obsolete by the end because the enemy learns how to counter them. A little-appreciated challenge of the Ukraine war is that it is making man...

  • Yellen Wrong Yet Again!

    May 19, 2024

    Yellen Wrong Yet Again!

    Treasury secretary Janet Yellen has recommended one foolish policy after another while ignoring their negative long-term effects.  Her policies, both as Fed chair and as Treasury secretary, have contributed to inflation and debt. ...

  • November 6, 2022

    Debunking antisemitism charges against PA's Republican candidate for governor

    Doug Mastriano, Republican candidate for governor in Pennsylvania, is being labeled in the Jerusalem Post as an associate of antisemites, in part due to his involvement in a film related to the Holocaust.  So I decided to check things out f...

  • February 16, 2022

    If Canada wants to reduce its COVID death rate, it should adopt ivermectin

    Canada takes pride that its death rate from COVID (939 deaths per million people) is lower than the purported death rate from COVID in the United States (2,849 per million people).  Part of this difference could be attributed...

  • September 12, 2021

    Head of Tokyo Medical Association recommends ivermectin for COVID treatment

    Dr. Haruo Ozaki, chairman of the Tokyo Medical Association recommends ivermectin for use with COVID patients. He notes that the parts of Africa that use ivermectin to control parasites have a COVID death rate of just 2.2...

  • May 20, 2021

    'The government's cure is what is going to kill the economy'

    On Tucker Carlson's Wednesday show, Peter Schiff discussed the rising inflation.  Unfortunately, the clock ran out before he had a chance to explain his last claim.  That claim was the ominous statement that "the governme...

  • May 6, 2021

    Mainstream media don't want you to know the difference between vaccines that work and vaccines that don't

    So far two countries have exited the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic using U.S.-made vaccines (Israel and the United States), while two other countries have seen infection rates rising despite heavy use of Chinese-made vaccines (Chile and Seychelles). ...

  • February 4, 2021

    Bezos forced out as Amazon's CEO

    On Tuesday, Jeff Bezos was forced out as Amazon's CEO.  (In corporate slang, he was "kicked upstairs.")  Amazon's Board of Directors may have had enough of him furthering leftist causes at stockholders' expense.  ...

  • January 29, 2021

    The Democrats' phony impeachment narrative

    The Democrat party is currently attempting to impeach former President Donald Trump because he supposedly instigated the violent demonstration which took place in a doorway of the Capitol on January 6.  However, the evidence is in. ...

  • November 19, 2020

    COVID-19 is getting less deadly

    The Swedish COVID-19 statistics, as published by Worldometer, suggest that COVID is simultaneously becoming more communicable and less deadly.  To see the latest, check out the Daily New Cases and the Daily Deaths on the Worldometer webpage...

  • July 5, 2020

    Evidence is in: Hydroxychloroquine works!

    The media is doing its best to ignore the solid new evidence that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) works. Although they claim to be pro-science, they only report scientific studies that agree with their narrative. Although they claim that black lives matter ...

  • May 18, 2020

    Dr. Fauci and the Tuskegee Syphilis Study victims

    Although Dr. Anthony Fauci's NIAID (one of the institutes of the NIH) has lost its power to slow-walk a vaccine solution to COVID-19, he still retains his power to disparage HCQ (hydroxychloroquine), the most effective treatment ag...

  • May 17, 2020

    Operation Warp Speed eliminates Fauci’s power to delay vaccines

    On Friday, President Trump announced Operation Warp Speed, a public-private partnership to develop a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year if possible. He put two “can-do” people in charge of the process – Glaxo Smith Kline’...

  • May 10, 2020

    Four Questions senators should ask Redfield and Fauci on Tuesday

    On Tuesday, health bureaucrats Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the CDC, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of NIAID, will testify at a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Republican Senators should ask them four quest...

  • May 3, 2020

    The last time they politicized the treatment for an epidemic

    It was 1793. George Washington was President. Philadelphia was the U.S. capital. Dr. Benjamin Rush, a Philadelphia physician and former surgeon-general of Washington’s army, was the de facto head of the Department of Health of the new country. ...

  • April 26, 2020

    Zinc: The Missing Element in the HCQ/COVID-19 debate

    It has been known, ever since 1984, that zinc is an effective virus fighter. That year a research study discovered that taking zinc gluconate lozenges early in the course of a common cold could shorten it. After a series of apparently conflicting res...

  • April 17, 2020

    Fauci time and the coronavirus vaccine

    The American coronavirus vaccine’s Phase 1 clinical trials are bogged down. They began on March 3 and are not scheduled to end until June 1, 2021. Why fifteen months for the first American vaccine’s clinical trials? The reason is simpl...

  • April 13, 2020

    Testing hydroxychloroquine as a prophylactic

    There are three experiments getting started now that will determine whether hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) works as a prophylactic.  A prophylactic functions almost like a vaccine, except that it has to be taken daily. All three experiments ar...

  • April 8, 2020

    Fauci now is part of the problem, not part of the solution

    The South Korean solution to the COVID-19 virus (widespread testing and the hydroxychloroquine-zinc cure) is beginning to work in the United States. Americans, like South Koreans, will soon be back at work and school. But at Monday...

  • March 24, 2020

    FDA shuts down at-home tests for COVID-19

    Proving again that they are part of the problem, not part of the solution, the FDA on March 21 shut down the at-home tests for COVID-19 that had been developed by several companies. (A few days ago, they inhibited the use of the successful drug ...

  • March 17, 2020

    Human trials for US COVID-19 vaccine started on Monday

    The human trials for the U.S. COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna Therapeutics started on Monday.  According to the Online Citizen: The first participant in a clinical trial for a COVID-19 vaccine will receive the experimental vaccine o...

  • March 15, 2020

    Israelis moving quickly to get out a COVID-19 vaccine

    Israeli scientists at the MIGAL Galilee Research Institute had worked for four years and had successfully developed a Coronavirus vaccine for chickens which passed clinical trials. When they saw the genetic sequencing of the COVID-19 virus, they real...

  • October 17, 2016

    Clinton Campaign chairman: I'm okay with taking money from foreign agents

    Sunday's Wikileaks dump includes an email discussion within the Hillary Clinton campaign about whether they should continue to take money from people who were registered with the U.S. government as foreign government agents under the Foreign Agen...

  • October 11, 2016

    Trump is Correct: GDP Growth Lowest Since 1929-1939

    During Sunday’s presidential debate, Republican candidate Donald J. Trump claimed that the U.S. GDP growth rate is the lowest since 1929. Specifically: If China has a GDP of 7 percent, it’s like a national catastrophe. We’re do...

  • March 11, 2016

    Cruz lied in Thursday’s debate about his previous support for TPP

    The following exchange took place during Thursday’s Republican debate in Florida: TAPPER: Senator Cruz, you were a supporter of the Pacific trade deal, but after taking some heat from conservatives, you changed your position. Why should th...

  • December 12, 2015

    Mitch McConnell: TPP could lose if brought up before elections

    On December 10, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned President Obama that the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) could be voted down if brought up before the elections. According to The Hill: President Obama is risking...

  • September 16, 2015

    Trump: 'We're going to get rid of the regulations that are just destroying us'

    Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump concluded his sold-out speech in Dallas on Monday with a call for reduced government regulation. He said (1:08:14 on this video): And I will tell you, we’re going to fight hard, we’re go...

  • July 9, 2015

    Nobel laureate's 'Emperor's New Clothes' speech about global warming

    At the July 3 Nobel laureates conference on Mainau Island, 30 of the 65 attendees signed a media-reported letter urging action against global warming.  Not reported by the media: the attendees listened to Norway's 1973 Nobel physics lau...

  • June 19, 2015

    Donald Trump: When was the last time the U.S. won on a trade agreement?

    In his speech announcing his presidential run, Donald Trump posed a question that resonates with the American people. Trump said: Our country is in serious trouble. We don't have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don't...

  • June 17, 2015

    Donald Trump and the currency manipulators

    In his speech Tuesday announcing that he was running for President, Donald Trump named three countries that have been stealing our jobs, two of which (Japan and Mexico) are included in the Trans Pacific Partnership that President Obama is negotiating...

  • June 4, 2015

    Obama admits that climate change will be in Obamatrade

    In a speech on the Senate floor on May 22, Democratic senator Ron Wyden of Oregon ridiculed those who thought climate change regulation would be part of Obamatrade: We’ve heard suggested, for example, that it’s a backdoor route to im...

  • May 23, 2015

    Sen. Sessions explains Obamatrade in key Senate speech

    Senator Sessions’s floor speech against Obamatrade on Friday could go down as one of the most important Senate speeches ever.  Already it is getting rave reviews: Rush Limbaugh hailed it (Odds are Obamatrade screws America): “J...

  • May 19, 2015

    This amendment could preserve U.S. sovereignty from Fast Track

    This week, the U.S. Senate will be considering up to 100 amendments to the Fast Track bill, which is expected to pass the Senate on Friday.  Senator Elizabeth Warren and twelve other Democratic senators are sponsoring what could be the key ...

  • May 17, 2015

    Fast Tracking the End of U.S. Sovereignty

    While President Obama was selling Obamacare, he repeatedly told the American people, “If you like your health care plan, you can keep it.” But soon after Obamacare passed, the health cancellation notices went out. Now President Obama ...

  • May 14, 2015

    Senator Cruz Files Amendment to prevent Fast Track from Changing U.S. Immigration Law

    When Fast-Track is voted upon, Senator Ted Cruz plans to propose an amendment that would prevent Obama from using his Fast-Track power to change federal immigration law. A Texas newspaper reports: U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today filed an amendm...

  • May 12, 2015

    CNN quickly cuts away from Japanese leader saying TPP will enable free flow of people

    At his April 28 press conference with President Obama, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan confirmed that the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), the secret treaty he is negotiating with Obama, is designed to enable the free flow of people amon...

  • May 7, 2015

    Dick Morris: Obama could use Fast Track to require climate change regulation

    In a May 4 commentary (GOP: Lost Its Soul or Just Its Mind?), Dick Morris warns that President Obama could use Fast Track to require climate change regulation: [I]n this era, a trade deal may not be just about trade. The administration could use...

  • May 5, 2015

    Sen. Sessions issues 'Critical Alert' about Fast Track

    Senator Jeff Sessions was one of the Republicans heroes who voted in the Senate Finance Committee to include a prohibition against currency manipulation in the Trans Pacific Partnership treaty that President Obama is now negotiating with 11...

  • April 22, 2015

    Dick Morris: Fast Track could lead to unlimited immigration

    The Senate Finance Committee is expected to vote today to give President Obama "Fast Track" authority to negotiate trade treaties without congressional amendment.  The bill would then come to the full Senate for a possible vote. Dic...

  • April 9, 2015

    President Rand Paul would give libertarian economics a bad name

    I watched Senator Rand Paul's announcement that he was running for president.  He had good goals, but his economic ignorance was dismaying.  For example, he argued that allowing American corporations to bring back profits from overseas ...

  • January 15, 2015

    China's Imports up just 0.6% in 2014

    China just released its December 2014 trade statistics.  After rapid growth from 2005 to 2013, the dollar value of Chinese imports was stagnant in 2014.  Here is the rate of Chinese import growth: From 2005-2013, Chinese imports grew ...

  • December 25, 2014

    Obama Administration Tweaked the GDP Data

    On December 23, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the Commerce Department issued its latest revision of U.S. economic growth for the third quarter period (July through September). According to the BEA, the U.S. economy grew at a 5.0% annual ra...

  • June 6, 2014

    Dismal Trade Report for April

    The June 4 trade report was dismal in every way.  U.S. exports fell, imports rose, and net exports (exports minus imports) reached their lowest level in two years, down from a negative $44.2 billion in March to a negative $47.2 billion...

  • March 5, 2014

    German Homeschool Family Can Stay

    On March 4, Homeland Security suddenly in effect reversed course. After spending years contesting the asylum that had been granted by an immigration judge to a German Homeschooling family in 2010, DHS decided to let that family stay in the U.S. after...

  • February 27, 2014

    Golden Gate Suicide Record

    According to The Independent (Golden Gate suicides: Deaths from San Francisco’s famous bridge ‘reached all-time high’ in 2013): The number of people jumping to their deaths from San Francisco’s famous Golden Gate Bridge r...

  • December 5, 2013

    Quantitative Easing and October Trade Results

    According to statistics released yesterday by the Commerce Department, U.S. net exports improved slightly in October, though the three month trend is still downward. The best news is that net U.S. goods exports to China increased by $605 mi...

  • November 13, 2013

    Chrysler's CNG Fuel Tank Breakthrough

    Chrysler announced this week that it has invented a CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) fuel tank that could revolutionize CNG-vehicle design. Here is a selection from a November 12 Automotive News article about their announcement: Chrysler Grou...

  • October 25, 2013

    Why Holder Didn't Loot Goldman Sachs

    It is hard to prove that Attorney General Holder's shakedown of JPMorgan Chase for $13 billion was politically motivated. The timing suggests political motivation, in that JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon had spoken out against Obama's "anti-busine...

  • October 23, 2013

    The JPMorgan Shakedown Slush Fund

    In my last blog post, I reported Attorney General Holder's shakedown of JPMorgan Chase for $13 billion.  I supposed that Holder may have been punishing CEO Jamie Dimon for criticizing the Obama administration's "anti-business" economic...

  • October 21, 2013

    Holder Shakes Down JP Morgan

    On the heels of IRS targeting of Tea Party groups, we have another example of the "Chicago Way" in action. The New York Post reported on Sunday: JPMorgan Chase has tentatively agreed to pay the Department of Justice a record $13 billion sett...

  • October 18, 2013

    Rightists May End Europe's Depression

    Those on the right of the European political spectrum are calling for a breakup of the Eurozone and the European Union and they are growing rapidly in popularity. This from The Telegraph: The leader of France's far-Right party has vowed that ...

  • June 18, 2013

    Who resumed IRS targeting in May 2012?

    According to May 21 testimony before the Senate Finance Committee, in July 2011 IRS targeting of conservative groups for additional scrutiny was stopped, only to be resumed in May 2012. The initial targeting was blamed upon underlings in the Cincinna...

  • April 22, 2013

    Homeland Security Prosecutes German Homeschool Family

    In November 2008, Uwe and Hannelore Romeike sold their grand piano (Uwe is a piano teacher) and fled to the United States with their five children. In Germany they were paying fines and being threatened with having their children taken away from them...

  • February 15, 2012

    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Revives Phony Santorum Scandal

    The Democrat-leaning Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is trying to revive the so-called "scandal" that the Democrats trumpeted during their successful campaign to unseat Rick Santorum in 2006. Other news outlets are starting to pick up the Post-Gazette's clai...