Gold Price Mirrors Economic Unease Ignored by Politicians
Currency debasement in no way fools the electorate… Continue reading on Forbes.
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Contra Bret Stephens, Freedom Trumps Western Civ by Many Miles
The frequently excellent Bret Stephens was thrilled about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s elevation of Western civilization in his Munich Security Conference speech last week. Stephens desires a…
A Call for My Appointment As the White House's 'Knife Czar'
Dear Reader, I would like for you to contact the President and promote my candidacy to make me the “Knife Czar.” If you don’t know what that is, it’s a new…
Even If Social Security Were Going Bankrupt (It’s Not), Retirees Wouldn’t Care
Social Security is not going bankrupt, and by extension benefits won’t be cut. Not now, not in four years, not in forty. The irony in all of this is that existing and future retirees wouldn’t much…
Human Action Continues to Discredit Global Warming Theory
According to the New York Times, global warming isn’t a threat. About what you just read, the Times didn’t acknowledge the latter as much as it implied it. In a recent article, the Times reported…
Wealth Creation Is Not An Act of War, Opposite What You’re Told
West Virginia’s relative poverty isn’t an effect of California’s enormous wealth. The better way to look at it is to consider how much poorer the Mountain State would be minus all the advances…
Rising Inequality Is Great. Its Downside Is Bigger Government
The rich of tomorrow will happily be quite a bit richer than today’s rich. That’s because the proliferation of AI meant to do and think for us will unearth superhuman qualities in a growing number of…
Proof of Work Is What’s In Your Wallet, Not a BTC Blockchain
Money buys nothing. It’s always production for production. Continue reading on Forbes.
Regardless of Your Stance, the “Border” Insults the Immigration Discussion
If “the border” informs your thoughts about immigration, then your mind is wandering. Seriously, how often have you crossed the border (on foot, no less) to go to work in or visit any other city,…
Nosebleed Home Prices Are a Brilliant Signal, Not a Call for Policy
People travel from around the world to visit Brooklyn. The “outer borough” formerly known as “Crooklyn” is increasingly a destination for travelers the world over. As David Ibsen, executive director…
Remembering Edward H. Crane, Co-Founder of the Cato Institute
Ed Crane lived a big life. Some will see the previous statement as an obvious one, and one made evident by the fact that Ed, along with Charles Koch, founded the Cato Institute, the world’s foremost…
Amazon and Google Crush the ‘Quarterly Capitalism’ Myth
The U.S. economy would be a fraction of its incredibly vibrant self if investors truly keyed on “quarterly earnings.” Amazon and Google continue to show us why. For background, in the 1970s the cable…
National Debt Solutions That Don’t Address Why There’s Debt
The national debt will continue to soar. Bank on it. See Holman Jenkins’s column from last week for evidence. He wrote in the Wall Street Journal that “The U.S. won’t deal with its looming debt…
Warsh Will Soon Realize That Powell Was Never Vy. Powerful
The central bank is just not that important. We insult the U.S. economic engine when we pretend that it is. Continue reading on Forbes.
The Republican Aim Should Be To Keep California In California
In the recently launched California Post, gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton wrote that Californians suffer the worst results despite paying the highest taxes. Without disagreeing with the…
Artificial Intelligence Will Be the Greatest Job Creator Ever
As Nvidia’s Jensen Huang routinely points out, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is work. That’s why it will be the most powerful, growth boosting, job creator the world has ever known. It can’t be said…
The TikTok “Saga” Is About American Envy, Not National Security
“This saga was never about TikTok’s utility or popularity but its Chinese ownership and apparent links to the Chinese Communist Party.” That’s from a recent editorial in the Washington Post, and it’s…
Punishment Is Not Hate, Opposite What So Many On the Left Think
“Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.” — Robert F. Kennedy…
Jason Furman Has a Plan To Make All of Us Very Tall
Money in no way alters reality. This truth seemingly eludes Harvard economist Jason Furman. Consider his assertion in the New York Times that the dollar at “multiyear lows” ultimately “could be good…
On the National Debt, Left and Right Have Become One
Government spending is excessively harmful precisely because it’s the central planning of precious goods, services and labor by the federal government. Conservatives and libertarians at one time…
If a Weak, “Trump Dollar” Is Inflationary, Then Biden’s Was Not
Why wasn’t Joe Biden afforded the same, market-based dollar analysis by the Journal’s editorial page when he was President? Continue reading on Forbes.
They’re Not Talking About What Makes Kevin Warsh Worrisome
There was nothing “financial” about the so-called “2008 financial crisis.” Markets quite simply ARE. They’re neither left nor right, nor are they biased toward one Party or another. They just tell…
A Tax Cut for ‘Working Families’ Does Nothing For Economic Growth
When did Republicans quit on supply side and go John Maynard Keynes on us? What can’t be said enough is that supply-side economics isn’t about fiddling with the tax rate to increase tax revenues by…
We’ll Never Retire For All the Reasons Elon Musk Thinks We May
Elon Musk predicts that with the proliferation of AI, including his Optimus robots, the people of tomorrow will not have to work if they choose not to. Thanks to the automation of so much of what was…