Policy and Government
From the National Pulse, Jon Decker explains why New York’s proposal to abolish the tip credit is a terrible idea.
In the Daily Signal, Dennis Prager makes a compelling case that the right are liberals and the left is illiberal and the occult struggle is one between liberalism and illiberalism.

On CNBC, Jim Cramer believes the market sell off has gone too far.
Monetary
From Forbes.com, Brian Domitrovic writes Fort Knox is the reason we don’t have a gold standard.
At Bloomberg, Luke Kawa reports Larry Kudlow’s call on the dollar & gold is looking prescient.
Spending
Newsweek reports that the U.S. air forces are 4x larger than that of the Russian Federation and we are “light years” ahead in capability. But… the Rooskies (with an economy less than 10% our size) are trying to “catch up!”
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