Good arguments gradually win. The Freedom Caucus lacks them. It will never succeed so long as it doesn’t understand its argument.
To See the Problem, the Freedom Caucus Must Look In the Mirror Read More »
If we’re free-speech absolutists, we’re by definition absolutists about the sources of speech. What’s being done to TikTok is embarrassing, and it won’t redound to its political critics in the U.S.
TikTok Faces Suffocating Government Authoritarianism…In the U.S. Read More »
If voters really want to avoid a future “financial crisis,” they would vote for Biden if he promises to go to bed after the next financial institution failure, and Trump if he promises to play golf.
If the Economy ‘Collapses,’ Biden Should Go To Bed, Trump Should Golf Read More »
In the late 1970s, Ken Langone connected Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank with Ross Perot. They were trying to raise money for what became Home Depot, and Perot was offered the chance to purchase 70% of the company for $2 million.
Five Words That Kept Ross Perot From Becoming the World’s Richest Read More »
The consensus among the allegedly wise is that China is “enduring its worst economic slowdown in years.” If the latter described the United States, economists and pundits would be calling for massive increases in government spending. How very backwards.
Chinese Economists Disagree With Xi Jinping. But Xi Is Right. Read More »
That markets are incredibly stupid is pretty much implied in all the Federal Reserve commentary from the various economic religions. Think about it.
The Fed As the Inflation Fix? Sorry, But Markets Aren’t That Stupid Read More »
Americans are mostly wrestling with “keeping up with the Joneses.” If he’s right then he, his fellow libertarian inequality apologists, along with Ahmari, Rubio Cass, should praise inequality to the skies.
Why Are Members of the Right So Fearful of Inequality? Read More »
If the arrival of the virus was a crisis as lockdown proponents so confidently asserted back in 2020, their hysteria offered the best case for government doing nothing.
Government Continues to Reap the Bitter Fruits of Its Lockdown Hysteria Read More »
The implied point in the Post headline was that government spending makes most sense when the economy is weak, a supposition suggesting that central planning of resource allocation is most needed when an economy is on its back. You can’t make this up…
Budget Deficits Don’t Power Economic Growth, They’re a Consequence of It Read More »
Ian Ayres and Quinn Curtis are law professors at Yale and UVA. Their area of expertise is retirement, and as they see it, the typical employee paying into retirement funds must be saved from himself. The professors want force to make sure the hoi polloi aren’t “misusing” their menu of investment options. Naturally it’s lost on Ayres and Quinn that the collective knowledge of those enrolled in retirement plans vastly exceeds theirs. Fearful that the mouthbreathers will go all in on gold, they’re out to make sure that experts take the proverbial wheel from those who don’t know as much as they imagine they know.
Retirement Plans Should Protect Employees From Retirement-Plan Experts Read More »
