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Writing by John Tamny and Parkview contributors, from the latest commentary to the collected archive.
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If the Fed caused the inflation, then why is the Fed empowered to fix inflation? It’s a question not asked enough, but with the Fed a combination of mysticism, myth, and gullibility inform an…
So valuable are technological minds presently that corporations are offering hundreds of millions to the best-and-brightest to move west, across town, or even next door.
“I also remember 9/11. Every sense at the time recognized the magnitude of the event and also that the U.S., with so much money in its pockets, and political imperative being what it was, was about…
Blowups rooted in risky market behavior are ok, but not the regulation that inevitably follows them.
For AI companies who’ve yet to go public, AI’s dangerous mystery is seemingly its life.
“Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.” Those were the words of Ronald Reagan.
Oil in abundance is a given. The United States could find itself 100% bereft of oil, all the while at war with or embargoed by every oil-producing nation on earth, and the truth about oil abundance…
The United States fixed poverty over 250 years ago. Evidence supporting this claim can be found in the fact that the world’s poorest have long made the U.S. their destination not to attain security…
Conservatives and libertarians must stop pandering. They’ve long done it with taxes and education, and now they’re doing it with data centers.
There’s only one billionaire in Vermont. No wonder the government there is so small.
Production always and everywhere precedes consumption, and the federal government produces nothing.
Everyone at Yale thinks they’ll eventually be president. Harvard is no different.
Donald Trump is doing exactly as modern conservatives should want him to do in Venezuela. Which speaks to how much conservatism has changed. To see why, pivot to Hong Kong.
There are 7,700 McDonald’s stores in China, with plans for 10,000 by 2028. McDonald’s is one of many potent symbols of Americana that’s proliferating in China. Which is the underlying point of a…
“I still have difficulty walking in the door and believing I work here.” That's Karl Ravech, in a 1993 interview with the Syracuse Post-Standard.
Fixing Social Security will not shrink the national debt, or even aid in its shrinkage. And that’s not a defense of Social Security.
It won’t stop with melanoma. Yes, you read that right. That’s the beauty of commercial leaps. They beget copious investment in search of the advances given life by the original advance.
Kevin Warsh can hardly complain about what Scott Bessent is doing, other than if he rightly disdains the weak, inflationary dollar that Bessent is pursuing.
The U.S. was the first country in world history to be founded on skepticism about politicians. Implied in openness to foreigners who shared the origin view was a belief that people weren’t poor as…
Do you relish going to the DMV? The answer is in the question. And the question is a civilized discussion tool for investor Rob Arnott.
Elizabeth Holmes is a hero. What you just read is true even if you believe that she failed.
It’s apparent Stanley Druckenmiller never invested his bottomless national debt pessimism. The previous truth was revealed in his Wall Street Journal takedown of U.S. Treasury secretary Scott Bessent.
Government spending is unquestionably the biggest tax on freedom and progress of all. While Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos will work at all manner of tax rates, they quite simply cannot…
Higher drug prices are bullish. Yes, you read that right. What's pricey signals a development achievement that will soon be enjoyed by all income classes at much lower price points.
