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.

Another Argument for So-Called ‘Global Warming’ As a Driver of Growth

It’s been said before by many inside and outside of science that so-called “global warming” is a good thing. Usually it’s pointed out that warming associates with more food production, not to mention that cold weather kills more people than hot. Beyond that, what about the simple productivity implications of warming? Assuming it’s man-made […]

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Unable to Protect Consumers, the CFPB Scapegoats the Banks

Economist Gordon Tullock (1922-2014) once quipped that there was an easy way to create safer conditions on American roads: rather than install seatbelts and air bags, attach a rather sharp, driver-facing spear to the steering wheel of each automobile. Tullock’s famous quip comes to mind as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) continues in

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A 2025 Resolution For Fed: Have The Courage To Do Nothing

“The traditional argument against a rules-based monetary policy is that it requires Fed officials to specify too many contingencies ahead of time.” Those are the words of economist Jason Furman, chairman of Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2013-17, and Harvard economics professor at present. The bet here is that Furman could be persuaded to

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Deportation of Mexicans Will Result In More Mexicans In the U.S.

The view here is that mass deportation of Mexicans from the United States will ultimately result in quite a few more Mexicans searching for a way to get to the United States than before. It’s basic economics. Regardless of ideology, please read on. “I build their dream houses. That means I depend strictly on

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Conservatives Must Cease Calling For Tax-Revenue Increases

“The federal government owns a little more than one-fourth of the total land area of the United States. The time is long overdue to consider whether that is the best economic arrangement.” Those are the words of the great Thomas Sowell. How to argue with Sowell? Think of the freedom and economic progress that

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Book Review: Tim Matheson’s ‘Damn Glad to Meet You’

If you ever want to learn economics, just purchase books about entertainment and sports. It’s that simple. Considering antitrust alone, the whole profession could be put out of business by the memoirs and biographies written by actors and entertainment journalists. All of this came to mind while reading Tim Matheson’s (Animal House, Fletch, The

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An Envious U.S. Political Class Protests the Chinese Eating

“The greatest fever of all was aspiration, a belief in the sheer possibility to remake a life.” That’s what Evan Osnos wrote in Age of Ambition, his remarkable 2014 book about life in emerging China. Osnos reported that as of 2014 the Chinese were second only to Americans when it came to the purchase of

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The Arrogant Conceit of Bank Capital Requirements

What should the interest rate be? The very question insults reason simply because economies are comprised of individuals, businesses and governments with wildly divergent pasts, presents and futures. An interest rate is a singular concept, not a number that a central planner can divine. What’s true about interest rates is similarly true about bank

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The Fed’s Critics vs Fed: Central Planners vs. Central Planners

Repeat it over and over again: there’s no interest rate, and there’s no such thing as interest rates. There are individuals, and individuals face a myriad of borrowing costs as numerous as there are people. The Fed can’t nor does it make credit easy or tight simply because an economy is people. And the

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The Late Rickey Henderson Is An Exciting Look Into the Future

“At 5-foot-10, Henderson was smaller than many big leaguers, but he overcame his size with a combination of horse power, a savant-like ability to exploit deficiencies in pitchers, and an extreme bravado that many players viewed as cockiness.” That’s how Michael Rosenwald described the recently passed Rickey Henderson in an obituary that Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard

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