“Inflation is the most pernicious and insidious regressive tax on the poor.” – RFK Jr. Thanks for reading The Kennedy Beacon! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support our work. Today’s leading RFK Jr. news: “Kennedy believes that both inflation and rate hikes are mere stopgaps for a more significant issue.
Kennedy does not seem to be competing nearly as well in swing state races in recent polls over the past month compared to how he did in the polls from late last fall that are often quoted in this Substack. He's generally in middle single digits. One of the best recent numbers was 13% from New York State of all places. He also had a 16% showing in a Marquette poll about the Wisconsin general election. Marquette is generally well regarded, which makes me wonder about the quality of some of the other recent state level polls. Most of them were Emerson. I was just scrolling through the real clear politics averages for a number of swing states, and they are no longer including the swing state poll numbers from before the start of the year in their averages. Their analysts have clearly decided that those polls were outliers. This concerns me.
Yes, of course, but I do hope he reads my book and gives me a call, and we can talk about it. I spent 21 years at the policy level of the US Treasury Department.
Mr. Kennedy says that "government spending" is a basic economic problem. As I have repeatedly pointed out on the Kennedy Beacon, the actual underlying problem is our monetary system based on the creation of money through debt by a privately-owned and operated conglomerate known as the Federal Reserve. This conglomerate is built on the use of fractional reserve banking to lend money at usurious rates of interest for the benefit of the billionaires who own and run it, not for the good of the people. Until Mr. Kennedy learns about this system, his statements on economics will continue to be at a level so simplistic as to be useless. I would urge the people running this site to please give him a copy of my book "Our Country Then and Now" for the history of this appalling system.
I think he knows, but there are a lot of people that think that JFK (among others) was killed for trying to fix that, so it makes sense that he would tread lightly. The bankers are very powerful.
WOW, on the Red Cross blood donor thing! I see the screen shot but seriously, its real??
Kennedy does not seem to be competing nearly as well in swing state races in recent polls over the past month compared to how he did in the polls from late last fall that are often quoted in this Substack. He's generally in middle single digits. One of the best recent numbers was 13% from New York State of all places. He also had a 16% showing in a Marquette poll about the Wisconsin general election. Marquette is generally well regarded, which makes me wonder about the quality of some of the other recent state level polls. Most of them were Emerson. I was just scrolling through the real clear politics averages for a number of swing states, and they are no longer including the swing state poll numbers from before the start of the year in their averages. Their analysts have clearly decided that those polls were outliers. This concerns me.
Yes, of course, but I do hope he reads my book and gives me a call, and we can talk about it. I spent 21 years at the policy level of the US Treasury Department.
The Highwire had a segment a few months ago on safe blood. https://safeblood.com/
Mr. Kennedy says that "government spending" is a basic economic problem. As I have repeatedly pointed out on the Kennedy Beacon, the actual underlying problem is our monetary system based on the creation of money through debt by a privately-owned and operated conglomerate known as the Federal Reserve. This conglomerate is built on the use of fractional reserve banking to lend money at usurious rates of interest for the benefit of the billionaires who own and run it, not for the good of the people. Until Mr. Kennedy learns about this system, his statements on economics will continue to be at a level so simplistic as to be useless. I would urge the people running this site to please give him a copy of my book "Our Country Then and Now" for the history of this appalling system.
https://www.claritypress.com/product/our-country-then-and-now/
I think he knows, but there are a lot of people that think that JFK (among others) was killed for trying to fix that, so it makes sense that he would tread lightly. The bankers are very powerful.