AboutMichael Fumento, Author at Affluent Christian Investor
Trump Ethanol Subsidy Hike Designed To Buy Back Voters Hurt By His Tariff Hikes
Obviously, the food stamp program was designed to help the poor right? Wrong. It was initiated during the Great Depression to raise crop prices. And who suffers the most from higher food prices? Right, the poor. But that was way … Read More
We Cannot Afford “Free” Wind and Solar Energy
While driving the mostly empty and flat 1,000 miles from Houston to Colorado Springs recently, I noticed something I hadn’t seen much just a few years ago — lots of wind farms dotting the landscape, but none anywhere near … Read More
For Some, Ebola a Most Profitable Venture
In the Andy Hardy movies Mickey Rooney’s idea for raising money was always “Hey, gang! Let’s put on a show!” Nowadays it seems you put on an epidemic.
That’s not saying West Africa planned to have an Ebola outbreak. But … Read More
The World Bank Spreads Ebola Hysteria
“World Bank estimates Ebola could cost West Africa 32.6 billion dollars.” So ran a typical headline from the organization’s October 10 meeting, based in turn on a 71-page report issued three days earlier—a report that actually estimated a broad range … Read More
The Ebola Epidemic Is Dying
We continue to hear the Ebola epidemic is “spiraling out of control,” “growing exponentially,” and so on. This after the first round of warnings in September in which the World Health Organization (WHO) has called it the “worst health crisis … Read More