Articles, commentary, and opinion on economics, markets, business, inflation, banking, history and more from Parkview Institute Founder John Tamny.
Parents will embrace a change that technology will make simple. Kids will finally get to sleep in, and because they’ll be able to sleep in, mornings will be much less of a nightmare. Isn’t “Big Tech” awful?
Technology Will Soon Make It Possible For Kids To Sleep In Read More »
Arguably the worst arguments made in favor of a forced sale of TikTok have to do with national security. Missed by pundits and politicians is that trade is the best protection of all for countries interested in national security precisely because it makes invasion of their country so expensive.
If National Security Is the Goal, Then Leaving TikTok Alone Is the Answer Read More »
Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a bill last week that would establish a “standard” 32-hour workweek and lower the overtime threshold after which employers are required to pay time and a half. The Vermont socialist is late to the party again. The free market has already delivered what he’s seeking.
Bernie Sanders Tries to Legislate Leisure Read More »
As always, all decisions are business decisions. College football has made a bad one, and soon enough we’ll be wondering who plays for teams we don’t watch, if at all, until late December or early January.
Can You Name a UConn Starter? A Look Into College Football’s Future Read More »
The worst arguments against the lockdowns inspired by the coronavirus were medical and statistical. To see why, it’s worth remembering that as humans we’ve evolved to protect ourselves from death and disease. The taking of freedom to protect us is always and everywhere excess.
‘Wait and See’ Doesn’t Excuse Sitting Out the 2020 Lockdowns Read More »
In their ongoing defense of the indefensible, conservatives defend threats by the political class to ban TikTok with weak-kneed arguments that TikTok could avoid the ban if they would just sell to American owners within 180 days.
App-Fearful Conservatives Pivot To Theft of TikTok Read More »
It’s popular among the conspiracy-minded and central bank-obsessed (frequently the two go together) to suggest that governments establish central banks to buy their debt. The very notion is self-discrediting.
Central Banks Neither Own Debt Nor ‘Print Money’ To Buy It Read More »
Good and bad decisions come to mind as certain colleges and universities start to abolish “legacy admissions.” The University of Virginia is the latest school to do it. And that’s too bad.
Abolishing ‘Legacy’ College Admissions Will Hurt Non-Legacies Most Read More »
How unfortunate if, in concert with the arrival of scores of Californians each day, Texas lawmakers begin to legislate in ways that caused more than a few of those arrivals from California to leave the state in the first place.
Texas Legislators Are Harassing Businesses California-Style Read More »
Vladimir Lenin famously asserted that the “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Some conservatives are hiding behind Lenin’s quip to justify their latest big, encroaching government apostasy.
Cowardly Critics of TikTok Hide Behind Vladimir Lenin Read More »
