The Boundless Foolishness Underlying ‘Soft Landing’ Mythology
It’s a waste of words to say the central planning that underlies Fed conceit always fails, not to mention that the surest path to lower prices is economic growth as is.
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To See the Problem, the Freedom Caucus Must Look In the Mirror
Good arguments gradually win. The Freedom Caucus lacks them. It will never succeed so long as it doesn’t understand its argument.
TikTok Faces Suffocating Government Authoritarianism…In the U.S.
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.
If the Economy ‘Collapses,’ Biden Should Go To Bed, Trump Should Golf
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.
Five Words That Kept Ross Perot From Becoming the World’s Richest
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.
Chinese Economists Disagree With Xi Jinping. But Xi Is Right.
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.
The Fed As the Inflation Fix? Sorry, But Markets Aren’t That Stupid
That markets are incredibly stupid is pretty much implied in all the Federal Reserve commentary from the various economic religions. Think about it.
Why Are Members of the Right So Fearful of Inequality?
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.
Government Continues to Reap the Bitter Fruits of Its Lockdown Hysteria
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.
Budget Deficits Don’t Power Economic Growth, They’re a Consequence of It
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…