Bernie’s Wacky Economics
A free degree that puts someone in the unemployment line is about as valuable as a sub-prime loan that puts a house into foreclosure. ...
About: Ralph R. Reiland
Posts by Ralph R. Reiland
How the World Works
Perhaps not to Millennials, but the economic performance is undeniable. What works best in delivering the goods is capitalism. ...
Economic Folly, Uninterrupted
Since we’re unsure whether Hillary Clinton will be indicted before the presidential campaign is over, it seems too early to count out Bernie Sanders, too soon to stop the...
Holiday Faux Pas
I didn’t even know it was a problem, but it appears that some of the politically correct people Down Under have found a way to stop Santa Clauses from...
Yes, the End Is Near
Right between the dog calendars and wartime calendars featuring American military jets was the “Yes, the end is near” Obama calendar — “The out-of-office countdown, 2016 through the glorious end!...
Too Brittle for School?
Students, in the name of emotional well-being, are increasingly protesting for protection from words and ideas they don’t like. ...
Producing Less Education and More Murders
What began as well-intentioned policies and protests to help out the oppressed and downtrodden is now directly subjecting the intended beneficiaries to poorer learning environments and more murderous neighborhoods....
Price and Demand: Cars and Labor
A basic principle from Economics 101 is that the downward sloping demand curve — the graph showing an inverse relationship between the price of something and the amount that...
Reaganomics vs. Obamanomics
Reagan’s economic policies produced a strong and positive outcome with economic growth, job creation and declines in joblessness and underemployment, key economic improvements that disproportionately help the poor and...
Papalnomics — Not So Infallible
Bolivian president Evo Morales, reported the Guardian, presented Pope Francis with an unusual gift during his trip to Bolivia — “a sculpted wooden hammer and sickle — the symbol...
Obamanomics: Puffery vs. Reality
With President Obama’s claim that “the economy, by every metric, is better than when I came into office,” the economic outcomes after six-plus years of higher taxes, more regulations, higher...
Race and Violence: Slogans vs. Reality
Cops, increasingly demonized and under attack by the black community , understandably are pulling back on policing in America's urban war zones. The outcome? Crime rates increase. Instead of...
A “Playful” Shot at Cops
“When the rhetoric ramps up to the point where calculated, cold-blooded assassinations of police officers happen, this rhetoric has gotten out of control," cautioned Sheriff Ron Hickman after the assassination...
Destroying Jobs Via Wage Diktats.
Minimum-wage advocates say they want to help low-income workers. But how are low-income workers helped when they lose their jobs because of the minimum wage? ...
Germans, Greeks, and Flying Crockery
“Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt,” advised Benjamin Franklin. That’s not how the Greeks seem to see things, where Franklin’s advice on borrowing and...
“Doesn’t Work and Can’t Be Fired”
Government ineptitude extends to most every major federal bureaucracy. ...
Senseless Politics and Harebrained Economics
Just when you think it can’t get any more anti-business, anti-jobs, anti-growth, anti-capitalist, and just plain economically nonsensical among presidential candidates than Hillary Clinton’s ’s “Don’t let anyone tell...
Lie-based Victimology Produces Violence
The lethal fallout has manifested itself in the rising number of poor people, disproportionately black, that are now being murdered in America’s inner cities. ...
Federal Dysfunction, Unabated
Now, on top of Secret Service agents frolicking with hookers in the hotels they’re supposed to be securing for President Obama’s impending visits, the news is even worse about...
Justice for All Minorities?
What's missing in the recent sequence of looting, arson, and destruction that occurred in the majority-black city of Baltimore — and previously in Ferguson, Los Angeles and elsewhere —...