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.

Elizabeth Warren’s Payment Scams Act Will Subsidize the Scammers

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For the longest time banks have relied on the law to protect the private property of their account holders. Ironically, those same banks increasingly find themselves in the unenviable position of protecting themselves from the law. Consider Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s Protecting Consumers from Payment Scams Act, co-sponsored with Sen. Richard Blumenthal & Rep. Maxine Waters. Warren, Blumenthal […]

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Google Has Great Shelf Space Because It Rates Great Shelf Space

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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 mind as the Department of Justice (DOJ) attacks Google and its alleged monopoly on search. Implicit in the DOJ’s

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The Sickening Cruelty of Life When China Was Actually Communist

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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 of just some of communism’s myriad horrors essential reading when it comes to attaining a tangible grasp of how

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Does the Economy Really Perform Better Under Democratic Presidents?

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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 did spook the markets), thus criminalizing failure in an economy that had long derived its dynamism from – you guessed

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There Are No Economic Forecasts, There’s Just Potent Fallacy

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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 arrogance of such a presumption is astounding. As is written here with some frequency, the mere notion of

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It’s Southern Border-Style ‘Policy’ That Immigrants Are Escaping

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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 Republicans evades years of failed policies.” Without taking sides, it should be obvious to Republicans that “failed policy” is

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The Cure For Visa’s Market Dominance Is Visa’s Market Dominance

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“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 competition in the credit card space, rather it’s about Visa’s alleged abuse of its supposedly “dominant” position in the

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If Paul Pelosi Is Why Visa Angers You, You’re Missing the Point

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It was reported last week that Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy, recently sold a sizable amount of Visa stock. Actually, it wasn’t that recent. July 1st to be exact. But since Pelosi’s sale preceded the September 24th announcement of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust case against Visa, it got people

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