K. Lloyd Billingsley

3 days ago | independent.org | K. Lloyd Billingsley

Last week, former California governor Jerry Brown, 87, defended the state’s non-functional high-speed rail project, better known as the bullet train. “We’ve got the money. We’re a rich state,” Brown proclaimed.  “We got $4 trillion in gross domestic product. Spain has less domestic product. They got one. France has a lower domestic product. They’ve got one. So I think we have to rise to the occasion.” The four-term governor and three-time candidate for president seemed to have forgotten a few realities.

1 week ago | independent.org | K. Lloyd Billingsley

Joe Biden’s pardon of Dr. Anthony Fauci, without naming any crime he committed, drew extensive media coverage. It wasn’t so for Fauci’s allies, including his wife, Christine Grady. She was recently cut loose from her post as  at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and head of the Department’s Section on Human Subjects Research. In the style of her husband, it was a job she never should have had in the first place.

1 week ago | independent.org | K. Lloyd Billingsley

Last month, the Valero energy company announced plans to shut down at least one of its two California refineries in 2026. That caught the attention of Michael Mische, associate professor of management and organization at the University of Southern California. “California can ill afford the loss of one refinery, let alone two,” Mische warned.

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | K. Lloyd Billingsley

1 day agoNo one was more relieved than Daily Wire commentator Ben Shapiro when Donald Trump announced a 90-day “pause” on Chinese tariffs. Scare quotes around “pause,” because there will still be a 30% tariff on Chinese goods, which economist Paul Krugman characterized as “really, really high.” But Shapiro …

3 weeks ago | eurasiareview.com | K. Lloyd Billingsley

Justin Trudeau, an open admirer of China’s “basic dictatorship,” has now given way to Mark Carney. The new prime minister’s mentor will be of interest on both sides of the border. Mark Carney earned a scholarship to Harvard, where he studied economics under John Kenneth Galbraith. Born in Ontario in 1908, Galbraith moved to the United States in the 1930s, earned a PhD in economics at UC Berkeley, and during WWII President Roosevelt tapped him to lead the Office of Price Administration.