Candace Owens has declared war on fact-checkers. “Facebook is trying to delete me,” she said in a recent video. “Big Tech is trying to delete us, our movement. We must stop them.” I first saw the video on Facebook, the platform Owens claims is trying...
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Jeremy Grantham’s Bubble Forecast Is an Outlier. Is He Right?
Dreamstime Text size “If the shoeshine boys are giving stock tips, it’s time to get out,” goes an old Wall Street saying about bubbles. It needs freshening up, for at least five reasons. Nos. 1, 2, and 3 are that modern audiences might call it...
Column: Will Joe Biden’s inauguration be marred by the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol?
To people who study right-wing militia groups and QAnon fanatics, the idea that armed insurrectionists would storm the Capitol while Congress was in session was not merely possible. It was predictable. Long before the mob began its march up Pennsylvania Avenue, it was obvious that...