DOES TEXAS HAVE THE 'RIGHT' TO DEFEND AGAINST THE INVASION PERPETRATED BY PIG GAMER LAWYERS BIDEN - MAYORKAS AND SCHUMER? - Oh, where to begin in the latest episode of “America’s Judicial Rollercoaster” featuring the audacious blockade by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals against Texas's gallant effort to enforce its own borders?

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Texas blocked—again—from being able to arrest and deport Illegals

By Gerald McGlothlin

Oh, where to begin in the latest episode of “America’s Judicial Rollercoaster” featuring the audacious blockade by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals against Texas's gallant effort to enforce its own borders? 

Yes, you heard that right. In a move that could only be concocted in the wildest dreams of a liberal screenplay writer, the appellate court decided to thumb its nose at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Why? Simply to prevent Texas from using Senate Bill 4 to do the unfathomable: arrest and deport illegal immigrants. Gasp! The horror of a state taking steps to protect its citizens and uphold law and order! From CBS:

Hours after the Supreme Court gave Texas officials permission to jail and prosecute migrants suspected of crossing the U.S. southern border without authorization, an appeals court late Tuesday blocked the state from enforcing its controversial immigration law known as SB4.

In a late-night order, a 5th Circuit Court of Appeals panel dissolved a pause that it issued in early March to suspend a lower court ruling that found SB4 to be unconstitutional.

(“Dissolving the pause” meant that the ruling blocking SB 4 from taking effect issued by the court beneath the 5th Circuit Court was back in play; the 5th Circuit is holding a hearing this morning to determine the legality of SB 4.)

Let’s set the scene further. Senate Bill 4 wasn’t just some whimsical decree by the Lone Star State, but a measured response to an untenable situation at the border. Yet before the ink could dry on this piece of legislative pushback, the Biden administration, in its infinite wisdom, challenged it for daring to tread on what they perceive as exclusive federal ground. Cue the international outcry, led by none other than Mexico, which seemed more concerned about Texas’s laws than its own border policies. Because, of course, in the bizarro world of contemporary politics, securing one’s border is now an act of aggression.

This circus act put on by the appellate court doesn’t just highlight the clash between Texas's resolve and federal inertia; it epitomizes the ideological chasm threatening the very fabric of our republic. The decision to block SB 4 is a stark reminder of how far some are willing to go to undermine state sovereignty and promote a borderless agenda, all while wrapping themselves in the cloak of moral superiority. 

What's truly fascinating — or disturbing, depending on your tolerance for political theater — is how this saga underscores the broader conflict between common sense governance and the delirious fever dream of “woke” ideology. It's as if the principles that have guided successful societal organization for millennia are being tossed aside in favor of a reality where feelings trump facts, and enforcement of the law is subject to the whims of emotional appeal rather than the letter of the law.

As we stand at this crossroads, watching the spectacle unfold, one can’t help but ponder the implications for federal-state relations. If a state like Texas can’t take proactive steps to secure its borders without being slapped down by the judicial system, what does that say about our republic? Are we to believe that the federal government, which has abdicated its responsibility in this arena, gets to have the final say while states suffer the consequences? 

But wait, there’s more. This ongoing legal kerfuffle isn’t just a policy debate; it’s a litmus test for the soul of America. It challenges us to consider what kind of nation we want to be. Do we aspire to uphold the rule of law, sovereignty, and security, or are we content to descend into a chaotic free-for-all, governed by the capricious dictates of “woke” ideology?

As the 2024 presidential election looms, this issue will undoubtedly take center stage, shaping the narrative and forcing candidates to take a stand. Will they side with the rule of law and the principles of sovereignty, or will they capitulate to the forces of chaos and moral relativism?

In the end, the appellate court’s decision is more than a legal anomaly; it’s a clarion call for a moral and intellectual revival. For if we continue down this path, ignoring the lessons of history and the foundational principles of our republic, we risk not just the integrity of our borders, but the very essence of what it means to be America. So, buckle up, folks. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.

Jerry McGlothlin serves as the CEO of Special Guests, a publicity agency known for representing guests who are dedicated to helping preserve and advance our Constitutional Republic and maintaining a Judeo-Christian ethic.

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Another day and another cartel fighting cartel for territory in Mexico

By Silvio Canto, Jr.

Mexico is on election mode and it looks like leftist Claudia Sheinbaum will be easily elected in June. 

 

She represents President Lopez-Obrador's political party, known as "Morena," and plans to continue implementing his policies.

 

Future President Sheinbaum will inherit a bitterly divided nation and a lot of cartel-fighting-cartel for territory events.     

This is an example of what I'm talking about:

 

Hundreds of people have fled their homes in southern Mexico as rival cartels fight for control of routes used to smuggle drugs and migrants.

 

Locals described cowering in their homes while bullets flew through their homes during a seven-hour gun fight.

 

More than 700 residents had been displaced from their communities near the Guatemala border, an official said.

 

The Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG) is trying to wrest the area from the grip of the Sinaloa cartel.

 

Criminal organisations like the CJNG and the Sinaloa cartel have been infiltrating the region because of its proximity to the border with Guatemala and important transit routes for migrants, whom they extort.

 

The worst-hit communities are Chicomuselo and La Concordia in Chiapas state. Residents of Chicomuselo said 20 people - 18 gang members and two locals - were killed in a cartel battle on 4 January.

 

In a statement, the community described "the pain at seeing children and youths trembling in fear and getting sick from having to live through these traumatic experiences". They also accused the state of failing to protect them.

 

Do you understand now why "insecurity" is the number-one issue south of the border?

 

Who knows how much territory is run by cartels?   Nobody knows for sure, but it's a lot more than people want to admit.  The Lopez-Obrador administration has avoided the issue or dismissed any connections between cartels and the political class.   

 

Mexicans know better.

 

So will anything change?  I guess it depends on our U.S. election.  It's obvious that a return of President Trump will force Mexico to control the situation or face consequences.  

 

Time will tell, but what I hear from Mexicans is that Claudia Sheinbaum is more of a bureaucrat than a politician.  She will need a lot political skills to assure Mexicans that she will keep them safe.  One thing we can be assured about, though, is that another cartel-fighting-cartel story will surface next week.

 

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Nolte: 66% Concerned Illegal Immigration Creates More Violent Crime

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JOHN NOLTE

19 Mar 2024

3:13

Polling shows that two-thirds of Americans believe illegal immigration “may contribute to the violent crime problem in America.”

Ya think?

His Fraudulency Joe Biden invites millions and millions of unvetted third-world illegals, most of them young, unaccompanied men… What the hell do you expect?

The good news is that most of this violent crime is happening in Democrat-run cities. This means that the people who live in those cities are getting what they voted for, and because this is America, people should get what they vote for. Be happy for them.

Rasmussen Reports polled 1,149 likely voters between March 13, 14, and 17, and found the following…

Only 31 percent said they were not “very” or “not at all” concerned about illegals contributing to violent crime. That is less than half of the 66 percent who are concerned.

The internals are fascinating. Among white people, 64 percent are concerned about the connection between illegal immigration and crime. However, among black people, a whopping 73 percent are worried. And why wouldn’t they be? Black people disproportionately live in the Democrat-run cities that posture as sanctuary cities.

While there is still a lot of denial among Democrats, 51 percent say they are concerned with the connection between illegal immigration and crime, compared to 84 percent of Republicans.

When asked if illegal immigration makes America better or worse, only 14 percent said better. A clear majority of 56 percent said worse.

As far as the Orwellian language wars launched by the left to cloud the debate, 62 percent of those polled prefer the clear language of either “illegal alien” (35 percent) or “illegal immigrant” (27 percent). Only 20 percent chose the stupid “undocumented migrant,” while 12 percent chose the even stupider “asylum seeker.”

Ask yourself…

Who benefits from all these illegals?

Biden opens our back door to millions and millions of people to do what, exactly? Nothing more than create competition for your jobs and your housing. We’re already dealing with a housing shortage, and housing prices are already skyrocketing. So let’s bring in millions more people who need housing. Brilliant. But who benefits? The rich. The property owners, that’s who. Same with the jobs. Who benefits? Only the corporations benefit from those cheaper wages.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent watches over more than 2,000 migrants at a field processing center on December 18, 2023, in Eagle Pass, Texas. A surge as many as 12,000 immigrants per day crossing the U.S. southern border has overwhelmed U.S. immigration authorities in recent weeks. (John Moore/Getty)

Why is Biden importing people who hurt working-class Americans? If you care about people, most especially if you care about Americans getting ahead, working their way out of the working class and into the middle class, you don’t do this. America should be a country that attracts only the brightest, best, and most ambitious from all over the world.

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John Nolte’s debut novel Borrowed Time (Bombardier Books) is available today. You can read an exclusive excerpt here and a review of the novel here.  

Nolte: Survey Reveals ‘Only Half of New Yorkers Plan to Stay’ in Democrat-Run City

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JOHN NOLTE

19 Mar 2024

3:49

“Only half of New Yorkers plan to stay in the city, according to the survey of more than 6,600 New York City households,” reports the far-left New York Times.

But-but-but His Fraudulency Joe Biden received 76 percent of the New York City vote in 2020???

But-but-but Democrat Eric Adams received 66 percent of the New York City mayoral vote in 2021???

Why’s everyone so unhappy in New York City when they are getting exactly what they voted for?

Oh, but unhappy these Democrats are, especially compared to seven years ago.

“Only 39 percent are content with the state of public education,” reports the Times. “Only 37 percent are happy with the level of public safety in their neighborhood, and only 34 percent are satisfied with their neighborhood’s cleanliness.”

“Less than a third rate the city’s quality of life as excellent or good. Less than a quarter are content with the overall quality of government services.”

When asked, “How would you rate the quality of life in New York City overall?” only 29.8 percent said “excellent” or “good.” That’s down from 51.2 percent in 2017 and 50.9 percent in 2008.

As you can imagine, safety is a major issue. When asked to “rate how safe or unsafe you feel … riding a subway during the day,” only 49 percent said they felt safe during the day. The day! That is a catastrophic drop from 82 percent in 2017 and 86 percent in 2008.

WATCH: Man Throws Flaming Newspaper at School Kids at NYC Subway

When asked to “rate how safe or unsafe you feel … riding a subway at night,” only 22 percent said they felt safe, compared to 46 percent in 2017 and 45 percent in 2008.

When asked to “rate how safe or unsafe you feel … walking alone on a street in your neighborhood at night,” only 51 percent felt safe, down from 70 percent in 2017 and 69 percent in 2008.

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Guess what’s getting the blame…? Yep, the pandemic:

“The drop is stark,” said Andrew Rein, president of the Citizens Budget Commission, even as he stressed that context matters. In 2017, New York City was “seven years into a really robust recovery,” he said. In 2023, New York City was still emerging from a pandemic that brought economic and social upheaval.

Is the coronavirus like a zombie that turns people into criminals?

To its credit, the Times does at least mention that crime might sortakindamightprobablybe a bit of an issue:

Of particular note were New Yorkers’ feelings about crime. There were more murders, robberies, felony assaults, burglaries and grand larcenies last year than in 2019, before the pandemic began, and the survey questions reflected a marked unease in how people felt riding the subway or walking the streets at night.

The same Democrats complaining about this voted for this. They voted to end stop-and-frisk. They voted for politicians who declared New York a sanctuary for illegal aliens. They voted to release violent criminals. And now they are all, Ohnoes, our city sucks. How could this have happened?

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And now half of them want to leave.

Idiots.

Sure glad I live here.

John Nolte’s debut novel Borrowed Time (Bombardier Books) is available today. You can read an exclusive excerpt here and a review of the novel here.  

Morris: Illegal Migrant Child Labor Rampant in NYC Subways as Authorities Shrug

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EMMA-JO MORRIS

17 Mar 2024New York, NY353

It is now routine to see child labor in New York City subways. But the child workers are sacrosanct illegal migrants, so the once-proudly progressive authorities in the city and state now turn away and declare, “not my problem.”

The New York Times came out with a report Wednesday detailing what any New Yorker already knows — that the subways are swarming with children as young as seven years old, slinging candy bars and packs of gum to commuters, sometimes with adults and sometimes alone, engaging in straight up child labor, after their mostly-Ecuadorian families landed in the Big Apple with no resources or connections in the area.

In scenes that are not familiar to people in first world countries but common in the places many of these migrants arrived from, kids are working out in the open, during the week, on hours their peers are all in school, and capitalizing on the sympathy their work elicits to pocket a few extra dollars for their parents.

Migrants wait outside the Roosevelt Hotel hoping for a place to stay on August 02, 2023, in New York City. (Leonardo Munoz/VIEWpress via Getty Images).

“‘It’s like a postcard from my country,’ said Soledad Álvarez Velasco, a social anthropologist originally from Quito who researches migration from Ecuador to the U.S. at the University of Illinois Chicago. ‘You will always see women there carrying their children, or with their children around them, selling whatever they can.’ In the U.S., she said, ‘they’re doing exactly what they did at home,'” New York Magazine quotes over the summer in a report on the same issue.

Despite Mayor Eric Adams (D) claiming during a trip to Ecuador in October that “In New York City, we do not allow our children to be in dangerous environments,” according to the Times, scores are, and no one in the city or state governments feel like doing anything about it.

Commendably, the Times writes that it reached out to seven city and state agencies to ask about subway child labor, and all of them claimed it was someone else’s problem.

The Department of Education, the State Labor Department, the Administration for Children’s Services, the State Office of Children and Family Services, all can’t be bothered, according to the Times report.

The Times also claims police, which would be the only authority able to be dispatched quick enough to respond before the children move, are not sent to calls that are not an emergency.

The paper writes:

There are logistical hurdles to addressing the issue. By the time someone called the state hotline and the report was evaluated and passed along to A.C.S., a candy seller could have already moved to a different location. The police can respond more quickly, but they typically are dispatched only in emergencies.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which runs the subways, cited its rule against unauthorized commercial activity, which carries a $50 fine, and referred further inquiries to the police and City Hall.

A couple of heavily armed New York National Guard soldiers patrol Grand Central terminal, Thursday, March 7, 2024, in New York. Gov. Kathy Hochul is sending the National Guard to the New York City subway system to help police search passengers’ bags for weapons. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Meanwhile, the unchecked illegality breeds more illegality.

Turf wars are forming over train “territory,” New York Mag said in its report, as more migrants move into the subway to hustle and threaten each other over certain platforms.

“Individuals and families who work in the same areas tend to look out for one another — but they don’t always get along. There are, increasingly, disputes over territory as more take to the trains. ‘That guy over there,’ one young candy-and-beverage seller from Ambato, Ecuador, said along the F train, pointing discreetly to a middle-aged man selling sodas from a cooler of ice farther down the platform. ‘He told us that bad things will happen to us if we keep selling here. That this is his place and no one else’s,'” New York Mag reported.

They are working in an area that is apparently so dangerous that New York governor Kathy Hochul (D) just last week had to put the National Guard in the subway. Those soldiers are doing bag checks for the three million+ commuters who use the underground transit system daily, even as foreign children illegally sell candy around them.

The New York subway has become a microcosm of the way the left has done a 180 from the ideals that built the modern Democratic Party: a system where the military patrols subways, where children are exploited through illegal labor on turf governed by gangs — and the “progressive” party of FDR has nothing to say about it.

Emma-Jo Morris is the Politics Editor at Breitbart News. Email her at ejmorris@breitbart.com or follow her on Twitter.

Sen. Roger Marshall: Democrats Want Open Border to ‘Build Their Census’

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HANNAH BLEAU KNUDSEN

15 Mar 202416

Democrats want an open border to “build their census,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) said during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily, detailing the fight between Republicans and Democrats on the issue of border security.

Democrats in the Senate this week rejected the Laken Riley Act, and the White House has rejected it as well, urging Republicans to instead get on board with the highly flawed Senate immigration bill.

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When asked by host Mike Slater why Democrats are opposing these legitimate efforts to secure the border and export criminal illegal aliens out of the country, Marshall said Democrats are actually trying to “build their census.”

“It is absolutely to build their census, so they can have more people,” he explained. “So when they do the census, the amount of government resources that are resources that go to your district is based upon that census, and they’re gonna be voting illegally.”

“And you know, so they help to grow their electoral college as well. California and New York are hemorrhaging people — people that are leaving because they’re tired of the violence. So they’re trying to backfill that so they keep the number of congressional seats, which adds to their electoral college,” he said, concluding that it is absolutely “politically motivated.”

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Further, Marshall said Democrats create crises and then think the government can solve them. But then, their solution actually causes more problems.

“Now the mayor of New York, Chicago are feeling the pain,” he said, explaining that they are now requesting monetary aid.

“It’s not going to solve the violence problems. To your point, the folks that came in from Venezuela, a lot of those are not good people. It’s a violent society. If you’ve ever been there, you understand just how violent that society is. These got-aways, 2 million got-aways in this country — there’s a reason they didn’t go through the regular process,” he added.

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Breitbart Business Digest: Immigration Will Not Lower Inflation

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JOHN CARNEY

14 Mar 202427

7:00

Border Chaos Has Added Millions of Foreigners to Labor Force

Immigration is not going to bail America out of our inflation mess.

The United States is experiencing an enormous surge of migrants. The Department of Labor says that the labor force has increased by 4.6 million foreign born workers during the Biden administration, including an additional 1.3 million so far this year.

That is likely an undercount because it is hard for the Labor Department’s household surveys to count new arrivals, especially when the numbers are rising so quickly.

We know that more than three million migrants who crossed the southern border are still in the U.S. An additional million or so who arrived at ports of entry without visas were allowed to remain in the U.S. because of the Biden administration’s expanded use of parole. Another 3.7 million have arrived with the proper paperwork allowing them to work.

The Democrat Border Crisis

This is a political crisis for President Joe Biden and the Democrats. Most Americans disapprove of the job Biden is doing as president. A quarter of those who disapprove just don’t like the guy, citing personal style or characteristics as the reason for their disapproval, according to Gallup News. Eighteen percent broadly disapprove of his performance.

Around 47 percent of those giving Biden a thumbs down cite his handling of specific issues, according to Gallup. The top three issues will not surprise you. They are immigration (19 percent), the economy (9 percent), and inflation (5 percent).

The Economist/YouGov survey asks registered voters to name the issue they find most important. Twenty-one percent say inflation, making it the top issue for the largest slice of voters. In second place is immigration, with 16 percent.

A group of migrants seeking asylum wear t-shirts reading “Biden, please let us in,” while waiting at the international border crossing in San Ysidro, Mexico, on March 2, 2021. (Stringer/picture alliance via Getty Images)

When the Economist/YouGov poll asks voters to evaluate Biden’s handling of immigration, 61 percent say they disapprove. Included in that figure is 45 percent who say they strongly disapprove of Biden on immigration.

That arguably makes immigration his worst issue, followed by inflation at 59 percent disapproval. But that is only arguably because inflation gets a larger share of voters saying they strongly disapprove, at 47 percent.

The Fantasy of Immigration Lowering Inflation

Faced with the prospect of losing the White House due to unpopular inflation and border policies, Democrats and their allies in the establishment media have recently started proclaiming that everyone has it all backwards. Immigration chaos is not another Biden policy crisis; it’s the solution to the inflation crisis.

They argue that immigration will bring down inflation because it increases the supply of labor. The additional supply of labor supposedly pushes down wages, which supposedly pushes down inflation. Bing, bang, boom.

If you are startled to hear that progressives are claiming that immigration pushes down wages, that’s completely understandable. For as long as anyone can remember, the American left (and a nontrivial portion of the corporate-allied American right) has argued that immigrants do not depress the wages of natives. Now that inflation is a problem for Democratic politicians, however, immigrants have somehow discovered how to drag down wages.

In any case, this argument flunks the most basic economic smell test because it depends on a form of single-entry bookkeeping. Immigrants do increase the supply of labor to domestic employers, but they also increase the demand for goods and services offered in the economy. Immigrants can fill jobs, but they need housing, food, schools for their kids, medical care, and transportation just like everyone else.

Migrants heading in a caravan to the United States walk on their way to Mexico City to request asylum and refugee status on October 29, 2021. (ISAAC GUZMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Unless we have reason to believe that the immigrants are especially productive at work and ascetic in their spending, they are almost certainly consuming as much as they produce, which would make them a wash in terms of the balance of supply and demand. In the near term, however, they are almost certainly consuming more than they produce because they need to be fed and housed immediately but finding jobs that fit their skills will take time. This is one reason the influx of migrants has been such a drain on local government budgets: the demand of the new workers needs to be subsidized, at least in the short term, because their production is inadequate.

What’s more, the current immigration surge is unlikely to be supplying labor where it is most needed. It would be nothing short of miraculous if the chaotic situation along our border were to result in the admission of workers with the skills needed to fill the jobs U.S. employers have open. Most likely, many of the migrants are actually just displacing existing workers at the lowest rungs of the economy—and therefore suppressing wage growth of already low-income Americans—while leaving a very tight labor market at higher levels.

But inflation is not being particularly driven by increased demand from the poorest Americans. So, weighing down the wages of low-income households will not do much to reduce inflation.

A recent analysis from the Brookings Institution looked at the relationship between immigration and inflation and found that it does not reduce pressure on wages or inflation.

“Because in our assessment the increase in immigration resulted in both greater production and greater consumer demand, it likely produced little additional pressure on aggregate prices or wages,” the Brookings study found.

The Relationship of Wages and Inflation Are Complex

In any case, the precise nature of the relationship between wages and inflation is still hotly debated in economics. It’s far from clear that simply holding down wage growth will hold down inflation. Certainly, the surge in inflation in 2021 and 2022 does not seem to have depended on wage changes—nor has the disinflation that lasted from mid-2022 through the middle of last year.

Even if we grant that wages could drive inflation, the mechanism matters for the purposes of evaluating the impact of immigration. While some economists think of wages as a cost of business that can get passed on to consumers in the form of higher prices, the more credible model says that rising wages do not push up inflation but may pull it higher by giving workers more buying power. But in that case, immigration will not reduce inflation because it does not take away from worker income in the aggregate; it just spreads it around.

It’s hard to blame the Democrats for trying. It would be very convenient if they could solve the inflation problem by allowing the immigration crisis to continue. And if they could convince Americans that immigration lowered inflation, maybe they could make some progress in flipping those disapproval ratings. If the Fed would agree with them, maybe interest rates could come down as immigration rates go up.

That’s not going to happen. Migration chaos is a problem. It doesn’t lower inflation, and it certainly will not convince the Fed to lower rates.

Those low wages for illegals are subsidized by my stolen wealth and your stolen wealth (food stamps, government health insurance, housing vouchers, public school, etc.), both through taxation and debt and devaluation. Better late than never… I guess?

Princeton economist with a Nobel under his belt eats crow and does a U-turn on mass migration

By Olivia Murray

Just yesterday, Breitbart News reported on Angus Deaton’s epiphany regarding the mass invasion of illegal foreigners into the American interior; he finally realized that importing millions of freeloaders to our welfare state isn’t such a good thing for the working class taxpayers, or the economy. Deaton is a Princeton economist and a Nobel recipient, so cut him some slack, he’s a little slower than the rest of us—remember, “the road to Hell is paved with Ivy League degrees” and apparently, Nobel Prizes too.

Here’s what Deaton had to say, in an editorial titled “Rethinking My Economics” and published by the International Monetary Fund:

The [economics] profession knows and understands many things. Yet today we are in some disarray. We did not collectively predict the financial crisis and, worse still, we may have contributed to it through an overenthusiastic belief in the efficacy of markets, especially financial markets whose structure and implications we understood less well than we thought.

…

Like many others, I have recently found myself changing my mind, a discomfiting process for someone who has been a practicing economist for more than half a century.

After making a case for how “economists” really have no clue what they’re talking about—that much was obvious when Deaton included “Karl Marx” in a list of economists, and considering that a majority of them assert debt is nothing more than a number—Deaton arrived at several new (to him) realizations. Most importantly, Deaton did a U-turn on his previous support for the mass importation of third-world foreigners into the U.S. homeland:

I had … seriously underthought my ethical judgments about trade-offs between domestic and foreign workers. We certainly have a duty to aid those in distress, but we have additional obligations to our fellow citizens that we do not have to others.

I used to subscribe to the near consensus among economists that immigration to the US was a good thing, with great benefits to the migrants and little or no cost to domestic low-skilled workers. I no longer think so [emphasis added].

Maybe the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ought to dole out another Nobel for his newfound and remarkable command of the obvious.

Deaton “seriously underthought” the ethical implications of a government stealing money from one person at the barrel of a gun, to hand it over to someone else who didn’t earn it? No kidding. How is this possible for such an “educated” guy? Those low wages for illegals are subsidized by my stolen wealth and your stolen wealth (food stamps, government health insurance, housing vouchers, public school, etc.), both through taxation and debt and devaluation. Better late than never… I guess?

Since Deaton is apparently behind the curve, a brief (and basic) economics lesson:

Importing tens of millions of third-world people with no skills and no money into a first world nation with an enshrined welfare state, does not benefit the people of that nation, as the latter are forced to foot the bill.

That’s it, class dismissed.

Image: Holger Motzkau, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, unaltered.

Breitbart Business Digest: Younger Workers Turning Against Biden as Unemployment Rises

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JOHN CARNEY

13 Mar 202471

4:28

Americans Sour on Bidenomics

President Joe Biden’s attempt to convince America that Bidenomics is a blessing is not working —especially among younger Americans.

The Conference Board’s index of consumer confidence fell in February following three months of gains. The Rasmussen Reports Economic Index declined sharply enough in March to reverse four months of gains. The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index slipped lower after climbing for two months.

The Economist/YouGov survey of registered voters found that 51.3 percent say the economy is getting worse, up from 47.5 at the start of the year. Around 23 percent say the economy is staying about the same, and 23 percent say it is getting better, each down a little from the polling released on January 1.

Many pundits have tried to brush off these negative impressions of the economy as merely a function of partisan politics. No doubt, political allegiance certainly plays a role. People are more likely to describe the economy as improving when their party is running the government. But independents are more likely than the average voter to say that the economy is getting worse, at 53.5 percent; so, party allegiance does not explain everything.

Bidenomics Not Getting the Job Done for Younger Americans

The most recent survey by Economist/YouGov shows a very big upswing in registered voters under 30 taking the view that the economy is getting worse. In the poll released on March 4, 37.8 percent of younger voters said the economy was getting worse, and just 23 percent said it was getting better. That’s a big swing from just a few weeks ago, when the same poll found that 39.4 percent said the economy was getting better and 26.8 percent said it was getting worse.

The movement among young voters is so stark that you want to wonder if it is real. Time will have to tell. But the downward movement in other consumer confidence measures suggests that it may be more than noise.

The Economist/YouGov poll also asks voters whether they are better off financially than a year ago. Some analysts think this is a better question than those asking about the state of the economy because it is less likely to be affected by things such as the tone of media coverage. A respondent may not know what’s going on with the national economy, but they probably understand their own situation pretty well.

This also worsened recently. The March 4 poll shows that 42.9 percent say they are worse off financially than a year ago, up from 40.4 percent at the start of the year. That’s not a huge movement, but it does show that the Biden administration’s cheerleading is not improving morale.

The poll also shows a big jump in unhappiness among younger voters. At the start of the year, 34.2 percent of under 30s said they were better off, and 17.7 percent said they were worse off. In the most recent poll, 34.3 percent said they were worse off, and 23.7 said they were better off.

What’s going on with younger Americans? The employment situation appears to have deteriorated among young workers in February. While the overall unemployment rate increased from 3.7 percent to 3.9 percent, for workers between 20 and 24 years old it increased from 5.9 percent to 7.2 percent. That’s the highest unemployment rate for this cohort since December 2022.

The jump was driven by a big increase in unemployment among young women. For women between 20 and 24, unemployment rose from 4.9 percent to 6.4 percent. For young men, it rose from seven percent to 7.9 percent. While those levels are not high by historical standards, the increase is notable in an otherwise tight labor market.

The fact that the economy took a turn for the worse among younger Americans may spell political trouble for Biden. Democrat candidates for president need to do especially well among young voters to win. Biden’s job approval rate among under 30s has plunged from 59.6 percent at the start of the year to 51.6 percent in the most recent Economist/YouGov poll.

Perhaps the most unexpected political development of this year so far is that Biden’s age problem is about youth.

Bidenomics after 37 Months: Six Charts the Media Don’t Want You to See

CRAIG BANNISTER | MARCH 13, 2024

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Liberal media are declaring Bidenomics a success – but, after three years, hard numbers tell a much different story, regardless of whether the measure is how much Americans are paying, earning or saving.

Gas prices:

While gas prices held steady under Pres. Donald Trump (down four cents a gallon), they’ve surged 38% in the first 37 months of Pres. Joe Biden’s term. From January 2021 to February of 2024, the average price of a gallon of gas (all grades) has increased from $2.42 to $3.33, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.