Gilder’s Guideposts Newsletters
Trump Part Deux: A Triumph for Free Trade?
Folks, we have a consensus here. Sage experts galore from around the globe, formidable thinkers such as Paul Krugman, Larry Summers, and David Stockman, some 370 “economists” including 19 Nobel Laureates and more, the frothing anti-Trump neo-conservatives on the taurine Bulwark, editors at the Economist, Fortune and Barron’s, even Trump’s economically savvy supporters, mostly fear that as President he could […]
U.S. Government Helps Chinese Hackers
The Wall Street Journal’s report of a massive hack into American networks, including those run by Verizon and AT&T, should remind Americans of two points. There are no secure networks, certainly none available to American consumers or businesses. The bigger and more convenient the network, like the Internet itself, the more laughable the security. Currently, […]
How is This Ally Different From All Other Allies?
Simple. In every formal U.S. military alliance, the motive of our allies is painfully clear. If they get in trouble, we will fight their battles. Israel, with which we have no formal alliance, fights our battles. And it fights them better than we do ourselves. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Iran has been by far the […]
Round-Heeled Republicans
If you want to watch a conservative jump, just say “China” and “national security.” Unsurprising was the lack of reaction on the right side of the political spectrum to Biden’s proposal to outright ban […]
COSM2024 Will Highlight Technology Advances
In the saga of technological change and convergence, this is a COSMic moment. We will hold our COSM2024 technology conference in Bellevue, Washington, Oct. 31-Nov. 1, to celebrate and illuminate this moment. At COSM2024, you will learn the critical paths and paradigms, and meet the visionary leaders of a movement of epochal change and luminous promise. […]
What Cleaves the Hearts of the World
Though each of us read “Mein Kampf” at different points in our lives, we were both surprised in the same way by the same thing. Expecting a racialist tract—and there is plenty of that—we got a materialist sermon. Hitler was no less a materialist than Marx. Hitler saw a world of limited and finite resources. […]
Are the Chinese Outspending Us on Defense?
The latest deception from the China Hawks in service of their campaign to enrage Americans into war with a billion people on the other side of the world, is the claim that Chinese annual military spending now sums to some $700 billion a year, perilously close to the $800 billion of the official U.S. military […]
Gauging Prices with Kamala and Khan
In Richard V’s new neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas, there is both a Kroger and an Albertsons. That combo no doubt raises the anxiety level over at the FTC where Lina Khan is suing to stop the two grocery chains’ proposed merger. Her goal, like the concern of Kamala Harris’s proposed price controls, is to […]
Derangement Syndromes
It is just as dangerous and gullible for Republicans as for Democrats to suck up their own spew, or believe their own rhetoric. Case in point is the constant harping, via conservative social media, on the “coup”: the supposed outrage that Kamala Harris was chosen as the Democrat candidate in a contrived, back-room maneuver despite […]
A Better Social Security Idea for Trump
Trump’s idea to stop taxing Social Security benefits points in the right direction. But as everyone immediately pointed out, it does not rectify the regressiveness of the Social Security system. While rich people hardly notice Social Security, the poor are often dependent on it for their financial survival. The chief argument in favor of removing […]