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To: Costa Rica’s Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Commerce (MEIC)Subject: Opposition to Costa Rica’s draft Technical Regulation RTCR-525:2025 – Ban on Nicotine PouchesDate: 4/12/2026 To whom it may…
No amount of Fed fiddling can keep credit away from production… Continue reading on Forbes.
Filling up your car is a big deal. George Gilder has made the crucial point that all the inputs for cars and gasoline are as old as the earth, but that cars and fuel only reached mankind for a tiny…
As the illness of the late Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane escalated, and with it Crane’s pessimism about how much time he had left, I would tell him he had to stick around lest the members of our…
War symbolizes economic decline like nothing else precisely because it’s defined by the extermination of the very people who create all the growth. The sad fact that economists near unanimously…
My friend Michael Toth, director of research at the Civitas Institute, could perhaps be persuaded that he’s incorrect about capital gains taxes. While he’s correct that the long-term tax on capital…
What’s your limit on a typical credit card in your wallet? And if your borrowing limit is higher today than it was when you turned twenty-one, ask yourself why. To say you can borrow more today…
On the matter of market prices, the Fed just doesn’t matter… Continue reading on Forbes.
Immigrants, particularly immigrants from what President Trump has described as “Sthole Countries,” are rejecting those “Stholes.” That’s why they’re immigrants. Yet it’s long been the norm to assume…
Cigarettes were referred to as “coffin nails” as early as 1906. That’s what George Will writes at the Washington Post. Will adds that the U.S. Surgeon General didn’t designate smoking as a possible…
An insufficiency of share supply was holding down Goldman Sachs shares not long after it went public in 1999. That’s why Goldman’s partners were given a chance to sell more of their shares in a…
Retirement is so last century. It’s the stuff of Bruce Springsteen songs about gallant Americans picking themselves up each morning to do work they can’t stand, but that they do with fantastical…
No individual, corporation, or government ever gets to choose how much money to borrow. Only in academic and pundit circles is such a fanciful notion accepted as realistic. A recent op-ed penned for…
The Fed can’t suffocate credit booms, nor can it instigate them. Continue reading on Forbes.
“Daddy, that’s not fair.” The late, great P.J. O’Rourke used to joke about one of his young daughters pulling out the “fair” card, only for the satirist to respond with how unfair it was that she was…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has teamed up with liberal New York AG Letitia James to reject a settlement negotiated by the Trump administration over Live Nation’s alleged antitrust violations.…
You know what’s the most important news item going on this week? The war in Iran? No. The TSA mess at airports? No. March Madness? No. The most important news of the week is old…
I read Atlas Shrugged in 1994. It was also in 1994 that I first read about cable television visionary John Malone. He was in the news quite a bit thanks to the growing prominence of cable, but also…
“I didn’t get better on his steady dose of antibiotics, the constant pain didn’t go away — while the advice to go off antibiotics entirely led to disasters, where I stopped the drugs and…
The idea that defense spending should somehow be a consistent percentage of GDP is as fallacious as it is wasteful. Consider a recent Washington Post editorial. It oddly asserted that “Throughout the…
Budgetary experts have been promising us a future “crisis” related to the national debt for years, and in some instances, decades. If you’re reading this, you likely know some of their names:…
Any margin artificially created by the Fed looms as a huge opportunity for market actors with real access to credit. Continue reading on Forbes.
It’s Jeff Bezos’s money. And it wastes words to say that he has a right to not lose tens of millions annually on the Washington Post. At the same time, it seemed like Bezos knew he would lose…
“It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.” Words spoken by Robert E. Lee as he watched James Longstreet’s First Corps (Army of Northern…
