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Book Review of Fossil Future

BPF Book Review of Alex Epstein’s “Fossil Future”

Fossil Future is chock full of data, charts and anecdotes telling in great detail the roles fossil fuels played in creating today’s cornucopia of abundance. Especially compelling are the “hockey-stick” charts that reveal the close correlation between the development of hydrocarbons and the dramatic rise of world GDP, world population, world life expectancy and human flourishing.

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Poof Goes the Big Bond Bubble

Poof Goes the Big Bond Bubble

Jim Grant, noted market historian and publisher of “Grant’s Interest Rate Observer,” has gone so far as to say that 2022 will be the worst year for bonds in the history of the English-speaking people. That is a long time – around 1500 years!

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Three Days at Camp David by Jeffrey Garten

BPF Book Review: “Three Days at Camp David”

“How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy” by Jeffrey Garten.

What happens when the President of the United States brings the smartest guys in D.C. to join him at Camp David for a three-day weekend?

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Bureaucrat Bot

Bots and Bureaucrats

In our real-life horror story, bureaucrats from government agencies, NGO’s (Non-Government Organizations), and non-profits act like bots in a swarm. They move to take more authority whenever they can. Panics, crises, and emergencies create opportunities to do this. They slither quietly: Administrative State bureaucrats as mindless blobs slithering in unison. Now that’s scary. 

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Some Other Close Elections

Some Other Close Elections

It’s hard to believe, but this election may not be the ugliest.  And may not be the most transformative.

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Public Service Commissioner Brandon Presley

Public Service Commissioner Presley Requests Federal Investigation of AT&T

Commissioner Presley wants an investigation into whether AT&T is spending properly $283.78 million in federal funds designed to help improve broadband access in Mississippi.

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