Articles, commentary, and opinion on economics, markets, business, inflation, banking, history and more from Parkview Institute Founder John Tamny.
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 »
Every time a government shutdown happens, or is threatened to happen, economics reporters find economists at Goldman Sachs and other prestige institutions willing to tell them how much GDP will shrink due to a lack of near-term government spending.
Goldman Sachs’s Economists Need to Get To Know David Solomon Read More »
Banks, like any business, never run out of money. They run out of investor trust. That’s why the only capital requirement for banks should be no capital requirement. They only succeed insofar as they force banks to sideline funds they’ve rented, and at a cost. To then pretend that any cushion would be sufficient if a bank ran into serious trouble is just silly.
The Dangerous Pointlessness of Bank Capital Requirements Read More »
China’s Evergrande has been staring bankruptcy in the face since 2021. More recently, media members have fingered Country Garden as yet another large China property company that could fall. Supposedly this signals “crisis” for China. Not explained is why.
Failure Won’t Hurt China, a Bailout of Country Garden Will Read More »
