Why Would Kevin Warsh Shrink Himself To Get Back to the Fed?
Kevin Warsh is married to the daughter of Ronald Lauder, the cosmetics billionaire. Warsh himself earns enormous sums on the speaking circuit, he’s got a top designation at one of the world’s most prestigious think tanks…
Luckin’s Arrival In the U.S. Is Bad News For the Birthrate-Obsessed
Human beings are inputs, but birthrates don’t matter. The latter is evidence that two seemingly opposing ideas can be true at the same time. Economists and politicians fear falling birthrates. Near monolithically of the belief…
The Fed Isn’t What John Cochrane Wants It to Be, Never Was
The Fed’s mandates are rooted in endless fallacy, most prominently the discredited Phillips Curve which says economic growth causes prices to rise. Please keep this in mind as monetary policy grandees pen high-toned pieces musing…
Beware the Pundits Who Think They Speak For Us
“We are living in a moment of existential dread and alienation caused by the savagery of social media, the ugliness of our politics, the AI takeover, our melting planet, a winner-take-all economy…” Those are the…
Book Review: Salvatore Basile’s “Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything”
I was living at 537 W. Deming in the Lincoln Park section of Chicago in the summer of 1995. The address and city rate mention because that summer Chicago suffered one of those brutal and…
A Worthless Number (GDP) Rises Not Due to Growth, But Because It’s Worthless
GDP is a worthless calculation. It goes down as imports increase, it goes up as government spending does, and it increases not due to productivity, but if production of any kind has happened. In other…
No, Jerome Powell Is Not the Hero of Today’s Economy
Silicon Valley VC legend Don Valentine purchased a 33% stake in Cisco decades ago for $2.5 million. Cisco is one of the many great investments made by the VCs at Sequoia Capital, and it’s worth…
Replying to Michael Munger Replying to John Tamny On SALT, Debt
Responding to me, Duke professor Michael Munger writes that, “If the real hawks like John Tamny get their way [full SALT deduction], with the cap going up to $100,000 or more, the loss in tax…
“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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