Category Archives: Economy

Why Do Wages Rise?

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: October 3, 2018

Many people believe the only path to higher wages is to put in more work hours, but there are actually many economic factors that go into deciding the number on each worker’s paycheck. Watch this short video to learn more!

Also posted in Free Market, Prager University | Tagged Business, Competition, Economics, Free Market, GDP, Labor Market, Money, Prager University, Wage Growth, Wages | 1 Response

As the Rich Get Richer, the Poor Get Richer

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: April 9, 2018

The rich are getting richer, and the poor are… also getting richer. What’s driving this wealth creation process? In this video, Daniel Hannan explains why it is capitalism — and capitalism alone — that has led to the unprecedented enrichment that is the central fact of Western life.

Also posted in Capitalism, Politics, Prager University | Tagged Capitalism, Daniel Hannan, Economics, Free Enterprise, Market, Prager University, Wealth | Leave a comment

Brexit: Why Britain Left the European Union

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: March 12, 2018

Is the European Union good for Europe? Or would Europeans be better off without it? Nigel Farage, a leader of the United Kingdom’s Brexit movement, shares his view.

Also posted in Big Government, Brexit, Europe, European Union | Tagged Brexit, Nigel Farage, Prager University | Leave a comment

President Trump’s SOTU: Americans Are Dreamers Too

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: January 31, 2018

In spite of the fact that the speech was too long (any speech that runs longer than 7 minutes is too long) I loved President Trump’s SOTU. It was filled with a love of America, pride in our military, respect for our flag, and an almost mystical vision of the American people and their unique […]

Also posted in America, Barack Hussein Obama, Democrat Fascists, Democrat Racists, Democrats, Donald Trump, IslamoNazis, Israel, Jerusalem, Jew-haters, Jew-hatred, Judaism, Taxes | Tagged Democrat Black Caucus, Louis Farrakhan, President Trump, Ryan Holets, SOTU | 5 Responses

How to Be a Conservative

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: July 24, 2017

“Sir Roger Scruton, a formally trained political philosopher, talks about his life and the events he’s witnessed that led him to conservatism. He first embraced conservatism after witnessing the leftist student protests in France in May 1968. During the ensuing riots in Paris, more than three hundred people were injured. Scruton walked away from this […]

Also posted in America, Books, Christianity, Communism, Conservatism, Constitution, Europe, Politics | Tagged Europe, Margaret Thatcher, Philosophy, Sir Roger Scruton | 2 Responses

Prager University: Income Inequality is Good

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: September 6, 2016

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e35Vf-9n8E[/youtube] The hot buzzword making the rounds in leftist circles these days is income inequality. Local, state, or federal, not an election goes by when Americans don’t hear that manipulative phrase. Amid the moral blackmail, few find the peace of mind to ask themselves if income inequality is actually bad. A new video from the […]

Also posted in Free Market, Prager University | Tagged Free Enterprise, Income Inequality, John Tamny, Money, Real Clear Markets | 1 Response

Book Review: The Scandal of Money by George Gilder

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: April 11, 2016

Seraphic Secret invited our good friend Jake Novak to review George Gilder’s important new book. Imagine you’re a carpenter who naturally relies on a good hammer to get your work done. But after years of reliable service, that hammer starts to act strangely. Sometimes it pushes the nail into the wood, and sometimes it doesn’t. […]

Also posted in Big Government, Book Reviews, Books, Israel | Tagged Chrysler, Federal Reserve, Ford, George Gilder, GM, Jake Novak, Money, non-functioning money, profit motive, Silicon Valley, The Iron Horse | 4 Responses

Boys and Girls Together — But Not On Facebook

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: February 25, 2014

The goal of the postmodern Democrat party is to centralize and harness the power of the state, which is then used as a blunt instrument of intimidation to suppress liberty and bring about an imagined Socialist utopia. Because Socialism always brings poverty, unemployment, misery and chaos wherever it rears its collective head, Democrats have re-branded […]

Also posted in America, Big Government, Class Warfare, Facebook, Social Justice | Tagged Clark Gable, Gender Confusion, Jean Harlow, Liberal Fascism, Marxist-Leninism, Mental Illness, The Democrat party | 13 Responses

The Democrat-ObamaCare Purges

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: October 30, 2013

“You can’t make an omelette without breaking some eggs.” So said Stalin about his genocidal purges. Obama and the Democrats are whipping up an omelette. We the American people — and the free enterprise system — are the broken eggs, the broken lives. At the moment, there are several million broken lives as the unreasonable […]

Also posted in America, Big Government, Obama Watch, Obamacare | Tagged Congress, Democrat ObamaCare Purges, Jim Crow, Liberal Facism, Market Distortions, Prohibition, socialized medicine, Stalin's Omelette | 9 Responses

Obamacare: The Death Spiral

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: October 22, 2013

It would be a mistake for Obamacare’s opponents to focus on the dysfunctional Obamacare websites. The so-called glitches are not glitches at all, but symptoms of 2,7000 pages of Byzantine laws passed exclusively by Democrats — the first stage in the destruction of the finest health care system in human history. Radical leftists — […]

Also posted in America, Barack Hussein Obama, Obama Watch, Obamacare, Taxes | Tagged Insurance, Insurance Death Spiral, Liberal Facism, Obamacare Website, Single Payer System | 9 Responses

Storming the Barrycades

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: October 14, 2013

The U.S. government is not shut-down. Approximately 83% of the Federal government is up and functioning. Including the Obamacare website, which fulfills every prediction made by anyone with a lick of common sense about what happens when the federal government colonizes one-sixth of the American economy. Just wait for Obamacare to be fully implemented. The […]

Also posted in Liberal Fascism, Obama Watch, Obamacare | Tagged Barrycades, Berlin Wall, Government Shut Down, Public Parks, Regulatory State, Ronald Reagan, U.S. Veterans | 11 Responses

Obama’s Unpatriotic Flashback

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: October 8, 2013

In 2006, Junior Senator Barack Obama signed and entered this letter into the Congressional Record. Obviously, this is a principled man who is deeply concerned about America’s fiscal problems.

Also posted in Obama Watch, Obamacare | Tagged Debt Ceiling, President Bush, Senator Obama, Then and Now, Treason, Unpatriotic | 5 Responses

Businesses, Unions And Schools All Warn Of Cuts In Hours Due To Obamacare…

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: August 14, 2013

Even NBC, a bastion of liberal thought and Obama-worship, can no longer deny the obvious economic disaster that is Obamacare. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epzVJv9hImw[/youtube]

Also posted in Obama Watch, Obamacare | Tagged health care, Liberal Fascism, Socialism, Unemployment Under Obama | 14 Responses

Cyprus American Style

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: March 19, 2013

The Socialist government of Cyprus is planning on stealing money—they call it a tax—from the savings accounts of Cypriot citizens. People will lose between six percent and nine percent of their savings. Naturally, the government has closed the banks for fear of a run by depositors. They call it a “banking holiday.” Notice how the […]

Also posted in Obama Watch, Obamacare, Taxes | Tagged Cyprus Banking Crisis | 26 Responses

We The Government

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: February 13, 2013

Obama’s SOTU in brief: Raise the minimum wage. This is a job killer. Spend more in infrastructure. Higher taxes. We’ve been here before. It was called shovel-ready jobs. Which Obama famously yucked-up as not-so-ready.

Also posted in Obama Watch, Second Amendment | Tagged Big Government, Climate Change, Democrat Socialist, Global Warming, Marco Rubio, Marxism, Minimum Wage, taxes | 35 Responses

Putting the Cool In Coolidge

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: January 2, 2013

Yesterday, Congress passed a bill which will: 1. Increase taxes on everyone. 2. Increase the national debt. 3. Increase the size of government. The politicians are slapping themselves on the back, boasting that they have avoided the so-called fiscal cliff. But what they have really done is place America on the road to serfdom. A […]

Also posted in Barack Hussein Obama, Books, Calvin Coolidge, China | Tagged Conservative Women, Michele Bachmann, Sarah Palin, The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge, Walter Johnson | 24 Responses

Debate #3: The Statesman and the Community Agitator

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: October 23, 2012

Well, clearly Mitt Romney reads Seraphic Secret. Yesterday we asserted that two foreign policy issues should dominate the final Romney-Obama debate: 1) The greatest threat to America’s national security is our failing economy. 2) A nuclear Iran. Thus, Romney relentlessly hammered away at Obama’s failed economic policies, linking this with weakness overseas. Regarding Iran, Romney […]

Also posted in 2012 Election, Iran, Mitt Romney, Obama Watch | Tagged Community Agitator, Final Debate, Michelle Obama, Nuclear Iran, Saul Alinsky, Thom Browne | 38 Responses

The Red Line and, Gosh, Look Who’s Endorsing Barack Hussein Obama

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: October 22, 2012

Iranian human rights activist Banafsheh Zand Bonazzi hosts and narrates this film about the Iranian nuclear threat. Banafsheh fled Iran during the revolution. She left behind her father who was jailed by the regime. Last year, he committed suicide as a final protest against the Islamist tyranny. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJAKOfxl_VU[/youtube] Tonight is the final Romney-Obama debate, and […]

Also posted in 2012 Election, Iran, Obama Watch | Tagged Banafsheh Zand Bonazzi, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Red Line, Vladimir Putin | 5 Responses

Oops! U.S. “Overpaid” $14 Billion In Jobless Benefits

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: July 10, 2012

Seraphic Secret is in the movie business. Emphasis on the word business. Here’s how it works. Yours truly writes and produces a movie. If it makes a profit, it’s a success. Those involved prosper. If the film loses money, heads roll. Either way, there are consequences. Business measures itself through profit and loss. But the […]

Also posted in 2012 Election, Obama Watch, Obamacare | Tagged Corruption, Democrat Corruption, Graft, Jobless Benefits, Nancy Pelosi | 4 Responses

It’s The Grilled Cheese Sandwich, Stupid!

By Robert J. Avrech | Published: February 13, 2012

A close friend, a teacher in Los Angeles Unified School District, said to me: “There’s a kid in one of my classes, bright and adorable, but with some, y’know, learning issues. I sat down and talked with him, tried to find out what was going on. Naturally, there were problems at home, the parent’s marriage […]

Also posted in Obama Watch, Obamacare | Tagged comfort food, Emotions as political theater, Emotions in Movies, LAUSD, Lyndon Johnson, Marco Rubio, Statism, War on Poverty | 19 Responses

How I Married Karen

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About Me
Robert J. Avrech
Los Angeles, California
I'm an Emmy Award winning screenwriter. I'm also an observant Jew, a religious Zionist, a conservative Republican, and a member of the NRA. I've been writing and producing in Hollywood for over twenty-five years. But the focus of my life is my family: my radiant wife, Karen—with whom I have been in love with since I was nine years-old—and my two daughters, who, thankfully, look like Karen. Not too long ago, we had three children. But our son, Ariel, died at the age of twenty-two from cancer. We miss him terribly. We think about him practically every minute of every day. People tell us that time heals, but Karen and I know this is not true. Time grinds away doing its terrible work. Ariel is gone. Yet absence becomes presence.

Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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Memorial Lectures
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Fifteenth: June 10, 2018
Jackie Danicki: “Confessions of a Convert: A Humbling, Joyful Journey to Judaism.”

Blog Post | Audio: (94 MB)

Fourteenth: June 11, 2017
Daniel Greenfield: “Fighting Anti-Semitism and Defending Israel in the Age of BDS.”

Blog Post | Audio: (100 MB)

Thirteenth: May 22, 2016Ben Shapiro: “How You Can Save Israel”

Blog Post | Audio: (70 MB)

Twelfth: June 7, 2015
Larry Elder: “The New Black Anti-Semitism”

Blog Post | Audio: (100 MB)

Eleventh: June 8, 2014
Michael Medved: “Shifting Alliances: Why Liberals No Longer Reliably Support Israel — And Conservatives Do.”

Blog Post | Audio: (97MB)

Tenth: June 9, 2013
David Horowitz: “The War Against Judaism on the University Campus.”

Blog Post | Audio: (16MB)

Ninth: June 3, 2012
Joel B. Pollak: “The Mainstream Media’s Betrayal of Israel.”

Blog Post | Audio: (15MB)

Eighth: June 5, 2011
Yossi Klein Halevi: “What is Expected of a Survivor People: Lessons My Father Taught Me.”

Blog Post | Audio: (18MB)

Seventh: June 13, 2010
Dennis Prager: “Happiness is a Mitzvah, Not an Emotion.”

Blog Post | Audio: (80MB)

Sixth: June 21, 2009
Rabbi Steven Pruzansky: “Conformity in Jewish Life: Vice, Virtue or Affectation?”

Blog Post | Audio: (64MB)

Fifth: June 15, 2008
Rabbi Dr. Gil S. Perl: “What Was the Rosh Yeshiva Reading: Intellectual Openness in 19th Century Lithuania.”

Blog Post | Audio: (70MB)
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