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Donald Trump’s policies aren’t what won him a majority of voters in the most recent election, or a majority of electoral votes in 2016. More realistically, it was Donald Trump who won the presidency…
Temu is a low-cost online marketplace that has had the temerity to achieve popularity with American buyers while also being Chinese. In response to Temu’s achievements in the world’s most competitive…
I’m not a big fan of the 19th Amendment. Don’t get me wrong—I value women as much as men—I just think when it comes to rational decision-maki… oops,…
Do you take Amazon or Walmart dollars? In the question it’s easy to see the problem with bitcoin, and other well-known speculations. People aren’t prone to storing their wealth meant for essentials…
It’s easy to forget that individual saving in no way shrinks consumption. Short of placing money saved into a coffee can, to save is to shift consumptive ability to someone else. What’s true about…
France’s best-known stock index, the CAC 40, is up 18 percent over the last twenty-five years. The S&P 500 is up 24 percent over the last two months. These numbers rate comment. For one, they vivify…
Most – including the writer of this opinion piece – listen to music in the way they watch football. They don’t hear the important, truly cerebral things in music in much the same way that they don’t…
Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane has always been of the view that “democracy” must be extraordinarily limited. It should be a device for removing highly objectionable people from national offices…
What an exciting time to be alive, especially for those younger than myself. An insightful article in Fortune, “Will AI ever cure cancer? The multibillion-dollar race to bring the first AI-discovered…
Lots of people think Vladimir Putin is a detestable human being, but not all who disdain Putin think the U.S. should side with Ukraine in its war with Putin’s Russia. Sen. Lindsey Graham plainly…
The New York Times reported last week that Legend Biotech has developed a potential cure for the incurable and brutally painful disease known as multiple myeloma. It raises a question: would readers…
Maya MacGuineas has been crying wolf for years, and likely decades. She’s always been wrong not because she’s evil, or because she isn’t bright, but because she focuses on nominally large debt…
Amid the worst stretch of the global political panic over the coronavirus, the U.N.’s World Food Program estimated that 285 million of the world’s poorest were on a rapid path to starvation. To even…
Former Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse writes that “the nation’s top private universities remain delusional about the dozens of reasons a large and growing share of the public distrusts them.” What’s mildly…
Regarding the makeup of Harvard’s student body, President Trump thinks 15 percent is a more advisable number than 25 when it comes to international students. Quite reasonably Trump’s critics, and…
The rain was heavy for parts of last weekend in the Washington, D.C. area. Seeing it coming down in sheets, it got me thinking about how people used to live. How awful it must have been in the days…
Social Security is not going insolvent. Not now, and not in ten years. Write it down and do so confidently. The surest sign insolvency in no way looms in Social Security’s present or future can be…
I’m opposed to President Trump’s idea of taking $3 billion in federal grant money from Harvard and giving it to trade schools; however, I’m very much in favor of taking $3…
New York Times reporters Ben Casselman and Colby Smith wrote on A1 yesterday that “There is a basic rule of thumb when it comes to the federal budget. The government should spend heavily during times…
Government spending saps economic growth, which is no insight. Instead, it’s just a comment that the centralized and politicized allocation of goods, services and labor in sub-optimal fashion by…
President Trump recently warned Walmart to not raise prices in response to his imposition of tariffs. Economists and pundits reacted to Trump’s warning with a mix of horror and haughty disdain. With…
Taiwan Semiconductor founder Morris Chang is known to be skeptical about the TSMC plant in Arizona. Not only will it be incredibly challenging to reproduce stateside what TSMC has in Taiwan, Chang…
The world becomes more amazing by the day. The surest evidence of the previous assertion is that wealth inequality continues to soar. Yes, you read that right. Inequality is a wonderful thing…
Do you prefer to lend to those who will pay you back? No need to answer. As repeated with great regularity in my upcoming book, The Deficit Delusion, money is ruthless. It must be since the genius of…
