# true blue (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover true blue. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Bear’s Lair: When should governments invest?](https://www.tbwns.com/2026/08/17/the-bears-lair-when-should-governments-invest/) _2026-08-17 · Martin Hutchinson · True Blue Will Never Stain_ The announcement that the US Defense Department’s Office of Strategic Capital is lending $400 million to the Australian scandium miner Sunrise Energy Metals is just one of a series of government investment deals that have caused globalist observers to question the Trump Administration’s commitment to the free market. Yet as history has repeatedly shown, governments \[…\] The post The Bear’s Lair:… ## [The Bear’s Lair: Time to get serious about the Budget](https://www.tbwns.com/2026/08/10/the-bears-lair-time-to-get-serious-about-the-budget/) _2026-08-10 · Martin Hutchinson · True Blue Will Never Stain_ Looking at the Monthly Treasury Statement for June, it is clear that the U.S. budget deficit for the year to September 2026 will again be above $2 trillion, once again over 6% of Gross Domestic Product. The fault is mostly on the revenue side, where last July’s Big Beautiful Bill gave away some $150 billion \[…\] The post The Bear’s Lair: Time to get serious about the Budget appeared first on True… ## [The Bear’s Lair: GDP should include Housewives, not Government](https://www.tbwns.com/2026/08/03/the-bears-lair-gdp-should-include-housewives-not-government/) _2026-08-03 · Martin Hutchinson · True Blue Will Never Stain_ Simon Kuznets, the Nobel Prize-winning inventor of Gross National Product/Gross Domestic Product statistics, worked for the public sector for the greater part of his career. It is therefore not surprising that government output is included in GDP at its full cost, however useless or indeed damaging the activity undertaken by the bureaucrats concerned. Conversely, Kuznets \[…\] The post The Bear’s… ## [The Bear’s Lair: Lawyers Subtract Economic Value](https://www.tbwns.com/2026/07/27/the-bears-lair-lawyers-subtract-economic-value/) _2026-07-27 · Martin Hutchinson · True Blue Will Never Stain_ The Trump administration’s policies must run a gauntlet of lunatic left-wing judges before they can be implemented. Infrastructure of every type in the U.S. faces huge additional costs, with its real cost ten times what it was a century ago and three times that of similar infrastructure elsewhere. Mergers can be delayed for years, to \[…\] The post The Bear’s Lair: Lawyers Subtract Economic Value… ## [The Bear’s Lair: Global Policing Fees Make Sense](https://www.tbwns.com/2026/07/20/the-bears-lair-global-policing-fees-make-sense/) _2026-07-20 · Martin Hutchinson · True Blue Will Never Stain_ President Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would impose tolls on the Straits of Hormuz shocked the usual suspects but makes perfect sense (I hope he re-reverses his subsequent reversal). U.S. taxpayers have been billed for three idiotic Middle East wars in the past 25 years, and this one is only prolonged because of the Straits’ \[…\] The post The Bear’s Lair: Global Policing Fees Make Sense… ## [The Bear’s Lair: Time for Latin American Capitalism](https://www.tbwns.com/2026/07/13/the-bears-lair-time-for-latin-american-capitalism/) _2026-07-13 · Martin Hutchinson · True Blue Will Never Stain_ The election of non-Marxist Presidents in Peru and Colombia (provided they are allowed to take office) reinforces a remarkably upbeat series of election results in Latin America. Cumulatively, those results give the whole continent a new hope of success, alas with the notable exceptions of Mexico and Brazil, still mired in hard-leftism. The question I \[…\] The post The Bear’s Lair: Time for Latin… ## [The Bear’s Lair: How to stabilize the political system](https://www.tbwns.com/2026/07/06/the-bears-lair-how-to-stabilize-the-political-system/) _2026-07-06 · Martin Hutchinson · True Blue Will Never Stain_ The Socialist/Communist advance in last week’s New York primary elections confirms that the U.S. political system is systematically rigged against good policy and sound economics. Two reforms are needed: a property franchise, to ensure that those without a stake in the economy cannot vote themselves handouts, and an end to the tax benefits for charities \[…\] The post The Bear’s Lair: How to… ## [The Bear’s Lair: The Whig Free Trade Myth is Baloney](https://www.tbwns.com/2026/06/29/the-bears-lair-the-whig-free-trade-myth-is-baloney/) _2026-06-29 · Martin Hutchinson · True Blue Will Never Stain_ A new paper by Robert J. Gordon and Kenneth Ryu “The Mysterious Disappearance of Productivity Growth in US Manufacturing: Was It the China Shock?” shows that annual U.S. manufacturing productivity growth collapsed on a price-adjusted basis from an average of 5.1% in 1987-2005 to 1.6% in 2005-23, due to the outsourcing mania, mostly to China, \[…\] The post The Bear’s Lair: The Whig Free Trade Myth… ## [The Bear’s Lair: Nighttime for the Neocons](https://www.tbwns.com/2026/06/22/the-bears-lair-nighttime-for-the-neocons/) _2026-06-22 · Martin Hutchinson · True Blue Will Never Stain_ The Iran peace deal is still a matter of “fingers crossed” that it lasts and is observed, but should it do so, the implications for U.S. politics are profound. The “neocon” faction that has been pushing the United States into Middle East wars for several decades may finally lose influence, and if so, it is \[…\] The post The Bear’s Lair: Nighttime for the Neocons appeared first on True Blue Will… ## [The Bear’s Lair: Bubbles Break Index Funds](https://www.tbwns.com/2026/06/15/the-bears-lair-bubbles-break-index-funds/) _2026-06-15 · Martin Hutchinson · True Blue Will Never Stain_ The debate over the inclusion of the $1.8 trillion SpaceX IPO in the basis for index funds has drawn a split result – the Nasdaq 100 Index will include it after 15 days, whereas the Standard and Poor’s 500 Index has said it must wait for a year, like other new companies. The two indices \[…\] The post The Bear’s Lair: Bubbles Break Index Funds appeared first on True Blue Will Never Stain . ## [Ship everywhere from one CLI (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xw7k313F6qUn) _2026-06-15 · **Sponsored**_ One codebase, hosted runners, encrypted credentials, and automated submissions across stores ## [The Bear’s Lair: U.S. risks losing the AI Cold War](https://www.tbwns.com/2026/06/08/the-bears-lair-u-s-risks-losing-the-ai-cold-war/) _2026-06-08 · Martin Hutchinson · True Blue Will Never Stain_ AI is the first truly energy-intensive technological advance in over 50 years, because of the huge number of data centers it requires to succeed (though data centers are not especially water-intensive). However, rejecting AI for this reason, or blocking its expansion through innumerable delays and regulations, would be as foolish as rejecting the steel industry \[…\] The post The Bear’s Lair: U.S.… ## [on apples:](https://colrana.neocities.org/fun/writing/apple/) _2026-03-21 · colrana._ the shape is almost like a heart with something sticking out and the leaf is there too i must not forget it the shape is like a heart with it sticking out a leaf is there too must not forget a shape is like a heart and it sticks out too the leaf is there i will not forget it the shape like a heart with the stick jut out the leaf is there too i must not forget it ## [poem for my mouth](https://colrana.neocities.org/fun/writing/mouth/) _2025-05-18 · colrana._ if apples fell upon me, then treetops tore their branches sway, with wind where when wind wore away, so dirt soil into what into that may be, if apples fell upon me. ## [a serious question to my husband](https://colrana.neocities.org/fun/writing/question/) _2025-02-14 · colrana._ how is it possible for my two hands to cup your cheeks and hold my future in one grasp? ## [My Website Guidelines](https://colrana.neocities.org/fun/writing/guidelines/) _2025-02-06 · colrana._ This website has a personal design guideline that I follow when editing and building it. The design of this site generally follows... ## [Bedtime Routine](https://colrana.neocities.org/fun/writing/bedtime/) _2025-01-30 · colrana._ A poem about going to bed with my husband... ## [True Blue Document](https://colrana.neocities.org/fun/creative/trueblue/) _2025-01-15 · colrana._ Welcome to the True Blue document; a document meant to hold lore and information on characters in the True Blue universe... ## [2024 Yearly Lookback](https://colrana.neocities.org/fun/music/yearly/) _2025-01-14 · colrana._ A new year's worth of a lookback! Well, it's 2024's lookback... ## [2024 Gallery](https://colrana.neocities.org/gallery/2024/) _2025-01-01 · colrana._ This year was the year of self-indulgent drawing again! Also a lot of pokemon since... ## [The Late 2000's E-Pet Boom](https://colrana.neocities.org/fun/hobbies/epet/) _2024-10-16 · colrana._ Remember Webkinz? I think a significant portion of people who grew up in the 2000’s vividly remember the really cute plushies that... ## [Find what they just said (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/focwZShtYZsn) _2024-10-16 · **Sponsored**_ Surface recent public signals so you can send policy-aware, relevant outreach ## [Reflection](https://colrana.neocities.org/fun/writing/reflection/) _2024-10-10 · colrana._ If I look at myself the wrong way... ## [New Styleswitcher and Theme](https://colrana.neocities.org/) _2024-10-07 · colrana._ Society when I finally wrangle all my css and make a style switcher? It's more likely than you think! Plus...a new theme! ## [New Year's Deji](https://colrana.neocities.org/fun/creative/deji/) _2024-09-25 · colrana._ A New Year's tradition that has grown every year since 2017, New Year's Deji is a series of drawings of my OC... ## [Splatoon Memories](https://colrana.neocities.org/fun/hobbies/splatoon/screenshots) _2024-09-20 · colrana._ My treasure trove of screenshots and gameplay footage! ## [S-BLAST](https://colrana.neocities.org/fun/hobbies/splatoon/) _2024-09-19 · colrana._ Such a weird weapon! Honestly if I called Rapid Blaster the love child of the Luna and Range Blasters, then this would be...