John Tamny

John Tamny is a popular speaker and author in the U.S. and around the world. His speech topics include "Government Barriers to Economic Growth," "Why Washington and Wall Street are Better Off Living Apart," and more.

There’s No Such Thing As a ‘Apolitical’ Fed, Nor Does It Matter

Politicians are human. So are central bankers. Since central bankers are human, it’s a fact of life that their personal feelings, biases and politics will inform their decisions. It’s something to think about as allegedly free-market economic types pursue a rules-based Federal Reserve. Of the view that “monetary policy rules” will somehow restrain the

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What Suzanne Massie Taught Ronald Reagan About the Russians

“How much do their leaders believe in communism?” That was the first question Ronald Reagan asked Suzanne Massie, the recently passed Soviet and Russia expert, during their meetings while Reagan was president. Without ever having known Reagan, the question sounds like something he would have asked. By all accounts Reagan was a true believer,

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Bernie Sanders and Josh Hawley Fail Before They Begin

Despite what Fed officials, economists, and their media enablers tell you, there’s no such thing as costless credit. This is important simply because economists and pundits who should know better still claim against all logic and reason that when the Fed goes to “zero,” so do interest rates. No, that’s not true.  Low prices

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TikTok’s Actual Offense? Innovating While Not Being American

Ten days ago the shares of Nvidia corrected 17 percent. How could this have happened to such an “owned” and analyzed company? The answer, at least as of now, is that surprise over inexpensively trained and very capable DeepSeek forced investors to at least rethink Nvidia’s long-term dominance.  The news on January 26th gave investors

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Reputation Is Everything to Banks. Let Them Protect Theirs

“Please take into consideration when you want to come after us down the road for something that Bear Stearns did, that J.P. Morgan was asked to do this by the federal government.” Those were the words of J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, at the time of his bank’s 2008 acquisition of ailing Bear Stearns. 

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Trump Shouldn’t Fix Social Security, He Should Free People From It

Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane has always said that freedom is the answer to any question about economic growth. If people are free they’ll have all the prosperity they could ever want.  Crane’s view of the world is something President Trump should embrace. In the next four years all manner of economists and budget

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NVDA Shows Stocks Gain Boost From Fundamentals, Not Fed

As is well known now, Nvidia shares tumbled something like 17% last Monday. Was this bad news from the Fed about its plans for interest rates? The question isn’t serious. Stock prices are a reflection of market expectations about all the dollars companies will earn in the future. Nvidia in particular shows us why

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In the U.S. We Have Ski and Surf Bums, Bangladesh Doesn’t

“Since he was a kid, Randy Miod wanted to be at the beach. Once he got there, he never left.” That’s what the Wall Street Journal’s Chris Kornelis wrote about Miod in “Crawdaddy’s” obituary. Although he grew up in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley, Kornelis reports that Miod was always at the beach. As a teenager, he skipped

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The ‘Great Resignation’ Was Always An Obnoxious Myth

Compensation in the United States is very good. How you know this without knowing it is that most of the best, most valuable businesses in the world are American. It brings to mind the popular narrative in 2021-22 about the “great resignation,” and how employees had gained the upper hand over their employers as

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