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.

It’s Lost on Christopher Waller That Shareholders Require Returns

According to a recently released report from the New York Fed, Americans collectively owe over $1.1 trillion on their credit cards. Reports like this have a tendency to elicit bad ideas from politicians. For instance, Donald Trump has called for federal caps on interest rates charged to those who run up credit-card debt. Except that readers […]

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Where’s Walter Williams As Fed ‘Cuts’ Rates 50 Basis Points?

A famous libertarian economic thinker, and memory says it was the late Walter Williams, was once presented on a talk show with the idea of a higher minimum wage. The suggestion was something like $7.25/hour to $10. In a paraphrase of Williams, he quizzically asked, “Why are you being so stingy? Why not raise

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As ‘Tough Jobs’ Multiply, Retirement Parties Will Vanish

Songwriter extraordinaire Burt Bacharach died in 2023 at the age of 94. In a recent New York Times interview of Herb Alpert, the musician extraordinaire looked back to 2021 when Bacharach called. He was going into the hospital to have fluid drained from his lungs, but in between shots and draining his plan was to study

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Congress Unwittingly Creates a Canadian ‘Jobs Multiplier’

You know how the best NBA and MLB teams spend enormous sums of money scouting talent around the world? The best U.S. corporations do the same. A failure to do so comes at the cost of future innovation, and in some instance results in obsolescence altogether. It’s all a reminder of the why behind Microsoft opening

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With Marco Rubio’s Plans, Who Needs Central Planning?

“But in May 2015, Beijing went public with a 10-year plan to dominate high-value, high-technology sectors – with the unspoken goal of destroying America’s economic supremacy.” Those are the words of protectionist Florida Senator Marco Rubio from an opinion piece published in the Washington Post. On their own they require a pause. As history

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