Once again, it is time to embarrass myself and predict what will happen in 2021. But unlike most pundits who hope you will forget their previous prognostications, I will review predictions for 2020. 1. The stock market will gain around 5%. Correct (Dow up 6% but S&P up 15%). 2. Bernie Sanders will be the Democratic nominee. Incorrect, but he was robbed 3. President Trump will win reelection. Incorrect, but he was robbed. 4. The Republicans will hold the Senate. Technically correct but this could change with the Georgia races. 5. The Republicans will retake the House. Incorrect 6. LSU will win the national football college championship. Correct 7. The Baltimore Ravens will win the Super Bowl. Incorrect, the Kansas City Chiefs won. As usual, my predictions are … [Read more...]
Political Arbitrage Can Soothe Our Polarized Country (Satire)
Do you despise President Trump so much that you are bewildered that he received 63,000,000 votes when you can’t fathom how he received even one? Do you seethe with rage when he threatens to ignore the election results because of “fraudulent” mail-in ballots? Are you apoplectic that the antiquated Electoral College enabled him to become president after losing by 3,000,000 votes? Does your blood pressure surge to stratospheric levels as he as he gives lifetime judicial appointment to conservative ideologues that are barely out of diapers? Are you a hard core Trumpster who is bewildered that virtually every poll shows your man is about to go down? How can anyone vote out a president that presided over three years of peace and prosperity until he had bad luck with COVID? How could anyone vote for a corrupt career politician that has flip-flopped on every issue in the past 47 years? How can anyone vote for someone who wants to confiscate your guns, defund the police and allow rioters to threaten your family as your 911 call goes to an … [Read more...]
Energy Policy is Rendering Connecticut a Third World Country
As a volunteer physician in Haiti, one of the first Creole sentences I learned was “Pa gen currant.” “There is no power.” Haiti’s power supply was unreliable and outages were common, which is why the wealthy had their own generators. Plutocrats, environmentalists and feckless politicians are now replicating Haiti’s problems here in Connecticut. This was highlighted by the hurricane Isaias in which hundreds of thousands lost power for over a week. But even before this event, consumers were complaining of outrageous electrical bills and in my Fairfield neighborhood, we had lost power four times during the two-week period before the hurricane for inexplicable reasons. After Eversource finally deigned to reconnect our power a week after Isaias, we lost power again. Much of the anger has been focused on the executives at Eversource, who are raking in multimillion-dollar salaries in spite of their legendary incompetence. But who enabled these grifters in the first place? It was our political class who are now feigning outrage over the system they … [Read more...]
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