The Next American Century

13/11/2024

What every investor wants to know is whether the Trump Trade will be long or short, robust growth or more stagnation.

01/10/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/richardvigilante/p/how-is-this-ally-different-from-all?r=16pii2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

How Is This Ally Different From All Other Allies?

17/08/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/richardvigilante/p/hey-trump-dont-subsidize-americas?r=16pii2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Trump’s idea to stop taxing Social Security benefits hits the right crowd with the wrong signal.

07/08/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/richardvigilante/p/israel-leader-of-the-free-world?r=16pii2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

For eight decades after the end of World War Two, America’s proudest title was “Leader of the Free World.” Today, that title properly belongs to Israel both on grounds of practical leadership and grasp of what it means to be a free people.

17/07/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/richardvigilante/p/chairman-xi-for-congress?r=16pii2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

He'd fit right in

12/07/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/richardvigilante/p/death-of-a-president?r=16pii2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I’ve finally realized what the 2024 race reminds me of. It’s Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman brought to life. The play is a bore, because W***y Loman is a bore. Miller meant him to be a bore. It’s a ply about being a bore.The Next American Century is a reader-supported publication. To re...

10/07/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/richardvigilante/p/chinas-tech-successes-will-make-us?r=16pii2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

An anxiety-ridden headline in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal lamented that “Beijing Leads U.S. in Fusion Race.” Apparently, workers in a “national fusion consortium,” including some of China’s biggest companies, are “completing a massive fusion technology campus” by working “three...

03/07/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/richardvigilante/p/debate-a-hiccup-for-dems-a-moral?r=16pii2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

The debate, the debate and nothing but the debate. Argghhhh!!! We confess to a limited (vanishing?) interest in politics as sport or even blood sport. We were tired of the debate weeks before it happened. Equally tiresome is the BIG, BIG news that was not news at all. President Biden’s mental and ...

28/06/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/richardvigilante/p/i-had-only-one-thought-after-the?r=16pii2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

…and it had nothing to do with either senility or anger, both on abundant offer. It was that the Republicans need to stop rolling over on climate. Trump was happy to engage on abortion and did well. He ran like a rabbit from the climate question. He is a self-obsessed bore with incapable of puttin...

19/06/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/richardvigilante/p/the-gop-china-hawks-are-lying-us?r=16pii2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Their claims of Chinese IP theft go beyond error to deception.

23/05/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/richardvigilante/p/thanks-to-bill-otis-i-finally-know?r=16pii2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

My comment yesterday on Bill Otis’s Substack post ran longer than many (though not enough) of my own posts. And it helped me figure out what I really think about this election. So, I decided to turn comment into post. Lest I give the impression that “comment” meant “critique”, there was no...

21/05/2024

https://open.substack.com/pub/richardvigilante/p/my-caitlin-column?r=16pii2&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

It's all about the eyes