American Consequences - April 2019

CONTENTS

APRIL 2019 : ISSUE 23

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4 Inside This Issue

52 Green New Deal

AMERICAN CONSEQUENCES

BY STEVEN LONGENECKER

BY ANDREW FERGUSON

6 Letter From the Editor BY P.J. O'ROURKE

56 Cutting to the Bone BY BILL BONNER

Editor in Chief: P.J. O’Rourke Editorial Director: Carli Flippen Publisher: Steven Longenecker Assistant Managing Editors: Chris Gaarde, Laura Greaver Creative Director: Erica Wood Contributing Editors:

11 A Ray of Hope from a Sad Place BY P.J. O'ROURKE AND AIDAN SILITCH

62 Trick Quiz: For 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidates BY P.J. O'ROURKE

14 What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

64 The Debt Trap

BY BILL McGILTON

16 From Our Inbox

70  Bipartisan Attacks on the Second Amendment BY RON PAUL 74 Modern Monetary Nonsense BY KENNETH ROGOFF 78 This Time Really Is Different BY CHRISTOPHER SMART

20 A Debt Jubilee Is Coming to America BY PORTER STANSBERRY

Bill Bonner, Mike DiBiase, Andrew Ferguson, Alice Lloyd, Bill McGilton, Geoff Norman, Ron Paul, Kenneth Rogoff, Buck Sexton, Christopher Smart, Porter Stansberry Newswire Editors: C. Scott Garliss, John Gillin, Greg Diamond Cartoon Director: Frank Stansberry General Manager: Jamison Miller Advertising: Jared Kelly, Jill Peterson Editorial feedback: feedback@ americanconsequences.com

28 Dumb Money

BY P.J. O'ROURKE

30 Committee Brain BY P.J. O'ROURKE

34 One Default From Disaster BY MIKE DIBIASE

82 Book Grump

84 Read This

40 Degrees of Difficulty BY GEOFF NORMAN

COMPILED BY STEVEN LONGENECKER AND P.J. O’ROURKE

46 Red Scare

86 The Final Word

BY ALICE LLOYD

BY BUCK SEXTON

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