When Kimbal (brother of Elon) Musk brought the idea of an online directory of businesses to the head of the Toronto Star, he was dismissed haughtily for believing with his brother that the internet would replace the Yellow Pages. The present is always the past. This is lost on Lina Khan.
Lina Khan Hasn’t Found An Antitrust Violation, She’s Found the Past Read More »
Dumb as government economic statistics are, the recommended responses to them are exponentially dumber.
The Fed Is Frustrated That Its Five-Year Plan Isn’t Working Read More »
“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the Legislature is in session,” is an old saw of American politics. It’s even truer for Congress.
Bob Menendez Is a Symptom Read More »
History says the governmental incompetence that Jenkins so routinely and expertly reveals doesn’t stop at our borders. Maybe past government waste will finally bring with it an upside.
Potential Upside To All the Past Federal Waste? Read More »
Another benefit of globalized LNG markets will be the quieting of country autocrats who merely threaten to cut off the flow commodities, along with the pundits who have a naïve tendency to believe their threats.
The Bullish Development of Global LNG Markets Read More »
In prosperous economies the surest sign of prosperity is relentless job destruction. In 2020, we saw job destruction of a different kind whereby panicky politicians decided economic contraction was the answer to a virus.
You Can’t Separate the Unemployment Report From the Virus and the Border Read More »
Congress is widely loathed by Americans who continue to overwhelmingly re-elect their own representative. This paradox speaks to the importance of strict term limits.
We Need Term Limits Precisely Because So Many Like Their Congressman Read More »
The problem with government can’t be found in how the funds it wastes are extracted, rather the problem can be found in the extraction. Eventually deficit hawks will realize this truth, that the real “burden on the grandchildren” is the size of the government they’ll inherit, not the debt.
Matt Gaetz Beat Kevin McCarthy, But Hasn’t Yet Won the Debate Read More »
Uncertainty about Social Security’s future is more of a political discussion than it is a discussion of actual market realities.
Indifference Will Kill Off Social Security, Not a Lack of Money Read More »
The FTC’s focus is essentially on the past, while Amazon spends enormous amounts of money trying to discover the future
As She Attacks Amazon, Lina Khan Shouts at the Past Read More »
