All Government Spending Is Painful, and Paid for Right Now
Economic thought with any pretense of seriousness is all about removing all barriers to production. No doubt taxes are a barrier, as are regulations, tariffs, currency devaluation, and government spending. Whatever inhibits production is paid…
Neither Balanced Budgets Nor ‘Starve the Beast’ Will Limit Government
Balancing the budget will never, ever shrink the federal government opposite what the experts at Cato, Mercatus, and other right-of-center think tanks tell you. The reason why can yet again be found in national debt…
Opposition to Costa Rica’s draft Technical Regulation RTCR-525:2025 – Ban on Nicotine Pouches
To: Costa Rica’s Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Commerce (MEIC)Subject: Opposition to Costa Rica’s draft Technical Regulation RTCR-525:2025 – Ban on Nicotine PouchesDate: 4/12/2026 To whom it may concern: My name is Jon Decker, and…
Private Credit Also Couldn’t Care Less About Federal Reserve
No amount of Fed fiddling can keep credit away from production… Continue reading on Forbes.
The Bullish Meaning of a Trip to the Gasoline Station
Filling up your car is a big deal. George Gilder has made the crucial point that all the inputs for cars and gasoline are as old as the earth, but that cars and fuel only…
Book Review: Eswar Prasad’s “The Doom Loop”
As the illness of the late Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane escalated, and with it Crane’s pessimism about how much time he had left, I would tell him he had to stick around lest the…
No Matter Your Opinion on Iran, War Is Depression
War symbolizes economic decline like nothing else precisely because it’s defined by the extermination of the very people who create all the growth. The sad fact that economists near unanimously contend that war has a…
Buy-and-Hold “Great Companies”: The Most Overrated Notion In Investing
My friend Michael Toth, director of research at the Civitas Institute, could perhaps be persuaded that he’s incorrect about capital gains taxes. While he’s correct that the long-term tax on capital gains should be zero, he…
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