Google Has Great Shelf Space Because It Rates Great Shelf Space
Back in the early 1990s, an oil-change service business ran a clever ad campaign which said “We’re not trying to change your oil, we’re trying to change your oil.” Get it? The ad springs to…
The Sickening Cruelty of Life When China Was Actually Communist
Bikes were “as indispensable to a Chinese as a car to twentieth century Americans.” Those are the words of Fox Butterfield from Alive In the Bitter Sea, his 1982 book about communist-era China. Call Butterfield’s account…
Does the Economy Really Perform Better Under Democratic Presidents?
Responding to the failures of Enron and Worldcom within six months of each other, failures that didn’t spook the markets much at all, President George W. Bush zestily signed into law Sarbanes-Oxley (legislation that most certainly…
There Are No Economic Forecasts, There’s Just Potent Fallacy
Economists quite literally ascribe to themselves an ability to forecast the global economy. Any doubts about the previous assertion can be found by placing “global recession” into the search bar of your engine of choice….
The Rising Meaninglessness of College Football Saturdays
A scroll through ESPN.com last Saturday afternoon revealed a bit of a shocker. #6 Ole Miss had lost to unranked Kentucky, 20-17. Trite as it sounds, muscle memory of sorts brought on the scroll of…
It’s Southern Border-Style ‘Policy’ That Immigrants Are Escaping
Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has taken to blaming the Republicans for problems associated with a surge of immigrants at the southern border. Republicans have hit back. One editorial asserted that “Blaming the surge on…
The Cure For Visa’s Market Dominance Is Visa’s Market Dominance
“We don’t take American Express.” Those five words kept coming to mind last week while reading about the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust case again Visa. To which some will reply that the DOJ’s lawsuit isn’t about…
Sorry Dave Eggers, the Billionaires Pay for Nearly Everything
“And it’s paid for by you. No billionaires will fund work like this because there’s no money in it. This is government-funded research to determine how the universe was created and whether we are alone…
“Capitalism cannot cause a financial crisis because capitalism is about markets constantly correcting errors. It is government intervention that can and often does cause crises,”
~ John Tamny, Founder
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The goal of Parkview is to relentlessly push the terms of the economics debate to much sounder footing so that the rather amazing present can ascend to even more spectacular heights.