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BOOTPRINTS: Moral Hazard as a Business Model | Steve Berman

BOOTPRINTS: Moral Hazard as a Business Model | Steve Berman


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What you’ve always suspected is true. Bankers lie. It’s a racket. But it’s not like “The Big Short” where deceptive bankers and greedy real estate agents and mortgage originators teamed up to load homeowners into impossible purchases of McMansions they could never afford. This is when bankers lie to each other, or when smarter bankers …

GREEN ENVY: Biden’s Oil Doublespeak | Steve Berman

GREEN ENVY: Biden’s Oil Doublespeak | Steve Berman


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President Biden is all about saying the right things to appease the greenies, but then doing all the things to appease the oilmen. He’s about to approve project Willow, which will give ConocoPhillips the right to use oil leases on Alaska’s North Slope, producing up to 180,000 barrels a day. At the same time, he’s declaring 13 million …

I Asked an AI to Justify Student Loan Forgiveness | Steve Berman

I Asked an AI to Justify Student Loan Forgiveness | Steve Berman


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If you want the straight truth about President Biden’s (likely doomed) effort to harness emperor-level authority and “forgive” hundreds of billions in student loans, I can save time and boil it down to Jonah Goldberg’s closing words in his essay on the subject (sadly behind a paywall, protected by a phalanx of murder-buttons): “I want the law.” Higher …

PEACEFUL JOE: How Biden Wins the Nobel Peace Prize by Making War | Steve Berman

PEACEFUL JOE: How Biden Wins the Nobel Peace Prize by Making War | Steve Berman


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On February 22, 1909, President Teddy Roosevelt reviewed 16 battleships returning from his “Great White Fleet” two year world tour which began on December 16, 1907. The fleet’s return, 10 days before his term of office ended with the inauguration of William Howard Taft, expressed in real terms that the United States was a world …

THE FOREPERSON: I Have Georgia’s 2020 Voter File and Here’s What I Found About Emily Kohrs | Steve Berman

THE FOREPERSON: I Have Georgia’s 2020 Voter File and Here’s What I Found About Emily Kohrs | Steve Berman


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When Fulton County DA was picking members for the special grand jury, my wife had jury duty, about a month after I did. We live in Fulton County. I prayed hard that neither of us would show up on the fated day and be selected. God forbid, and I’m glad it was other people. I …

REVIVAL: Did God Visit Asbury University? | Steve Berman

REVIVAL: Did God Visit Asbury University? | Steve Berman


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The third rail of American Christian division is talking about Holy Spirit revival of the kind that Asbury University experienced recently, and according to the school’s administration, ends today. It’s been all over the news, and many evangelicals have weighed in on the events at Asbury, that started with a chapel service, and extended for weeks as …

ARTIFICIAL MENTAL ILLNESS: Bing Goes Off the Rails | Steve Berman

ARTIFICIAL MENTAL ILLNESS: Bing Goes Off the Rails | Steve Berman


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So the big demo that Microsoft had, introducing its ChatGPT-enabled Bing made the whole thing look really good. But in reality, Microsoft’s presentation was just as problematic as Google’s failed AI rollout (known as Bard—what is it about four letter words starting with “B”?). But Microsoft looked good and Google didn’t, so Google lost $100 billion in market capitalization while Microsoft …

TWITTER: House Hearings Are Not “Silly” Because the Coverup is Real | Steve Berman

TWITTER: House Hearings Are Not “Silly” Because the Coverup is Real | Steve Berman


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One of the first things Republicans in charge of the House of Representatives have chosen to investigate is the melange of denouncement surrounding the October 2020 New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Democrats called the hearing “silly” and a “bizarre political stunt.” Of course it’s political, but that doesn’t mean it’s silly. See …