Wallace-Wells’s lament that the U.S. is well behind China is a feature, not a bug. Since we really don’t know, why not let China find out for us?
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Credit/debit card issuers quite literally finance the purchases of customers, they enhance the ability of customers to make purchases by not limiting them to what’s in their pockets, and most of all they free retailers from a myriad of burdens including judging the cash or creditworthiness of buyers.
There’s No ‘Junk’ In Credit Card Swipe Fees, Just Essential Service Read More »
I think the theory that is global warming an obnoxious conceit. But whether right or ignorant, I don’t want big government fighting these battles with the money of others.
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Economists near monolithically believe the Fed can decree “easy money” via its funds rate, that government spending grows the economy, and that by pushing its funds rate low, the Fed can engineer stock market rallies. Thankfully we have companies like Nvidia.
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Early on in Blood River, Tim Butcher’s difficult-to-put-down but incredibly sad memoir of his trip across the Congo, he writes that it’s a place where “the normal rules of human development and advancement simply don’t apply.”
Book Review: Tim Butcher’s Tragic and Engrossing ‘Blood River’ Read More »
To read about the DOJ’s antitrust suit against Live Nation isn’t to find offense, but to realize that Live Nation saw a future amid a fraught time for the industry that its competitors did not. And for not wanting to hire the losers, it’s threatened with breakup. In other words, typical antitrust.
DOJ Ankle Biters Attack Live Nation For Seeing What No One Saw Read More »
The low-birthrate “crisis” is yet another falsehood belied by market signals and common sense. The alarmism is rooted in the Keynesian view that fewer babies means reduced future consumption that will sap economic growth and government revenues.
Confused Keynesianism Informs Low-Birthrate Alarmism Read More »
How horrifying to think that the price control falsely described as “net neutrality” could deprive us of what the internet could be. And it’s what we aren’t “demanding” from the internet that should really worry us. See Pretty In Pink if you’re confused.
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In their efforts to fight off what they allege are “woke” business practices inside banks, Texas Republicans have taken to harassing financial institutions in a fashion long associated with “woke.”
Texas Republicans Fight ‘Woke’ With Higher Taxes on Texans Read More »
What investments will not be made if government decree makes investment in an opaque communications future too costly? Let’s hope we don’t have to contemplate the question in the future.
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