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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates used to say that his company’s biggest competitor was Goldman Sachs. Yes, the investment bank. Gates’s point was that business success is a function of the people…
Jon Decker, a senior fellow at the Parkview Institute, sent this letter to legislators in Nebraska, advocating for economic freedom in the Cornhusker State. — Dear Senator, My name is Jon Decker, and…
Wise minds inside any presidential administration would quickly sell every barrel of oil presently stored in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Forgetting for a minute that there’s nothing about energy…
On January 26, 2023, popular U.S. hamburger chain Five Guys opened in Seoul, South Korea’s capital city. The weather was rainy and humid, but South Koreans braved up to twelve hours in line to get a…
“Would you like fries with that?” What you just read is a question, an economic cost, but also arguably a symbol of the difficulties fast-food restaurants have long faced. How to find good,…
Recently a prominent member of the libertarian community died. Notable about the individual’s death is what he left behind. Though he earned good money over the decades, the pay was in no way…
It’s a popular lament on the right that Montgomery (Maryland) and Fairfax (Virginia) are the two richest U.S. counties in an income sense. Each abuts Washington, D.C. Get it? The above question isn’t…
Google isn’t at all certain that it will be as prominent tomorrow as it is today. See its planned acquisition of New York City-based Wiz if the previous sentence confuses you. It seems only Google…
If there’s production there is money. It’s that simple. “Money” is merely an agreement about value among producers that enables the exchange of actual goods, services, and labor. It’s all a reminder…
When asked if he attended his Lincoln High School (Brooklyn) reunions, the recently passed New York City real estate mogul and civic leader Marshall Rose said he did not, that he thought most of his…
I'm Like a Modern-Day Nostradamus... Did y’all read my article last week? Donald Trump’s Endgame Is Not What You Think. My media company is named the ROB IS RIGHT network for a…
The Wall Street Journal reported how Ford Motor Company’s best-selling F-150 has become the latest example of the negative impact of the new tariff movement. The F-150 in particular, and the…
Businesses fight consumers every day for access to precious capital. Yes, you read that right. The businesses economists tell us are reliant on consumption are in a battle for capital that would…
“Let’s get out of here. I don’t want to see anybody.” Those were the words of polymath thinker, actor, entertainer and director Mike Nichols (1931-2014) at the June 21, 1966 premiere of Who’s Afraid…
A gold standard would do wonders for economic growth, but would almost certainly not limit the growth of our federal government. The view that it would insults markets at least three times, but…
Milton Friedman was incorrect. About the negative income tax, specifically. The great Nobel Laureate (1912-2006) viewed a negative income tax as something that would encourage work. While most people…
Private, or “crypto” money will eventually replace government money. Bank on it. As written in The Money Confusion, profits from the trading of fiat currency chaos ($7 trillion per day worth of…
When we look back on 2025 in 2030, rest assured that we’ll have forgotten or moved beyond what had us so scared in 2025. While what will happen next week is nearly impossible to predict, it’s much…
I could hardly be happier with the actions of the Trump Administration, though I’m not a tariff guy. Donald Trump is perhaps the most atypical politician since George Washington,…
In the seriously great news department, pancreatic cancer is expected to pass colorectal cancer as the second biggest cause of cancer-related death by 2030. Yes, it’s great news. To see why, look…
Panicky politicians caused the coronavirus crack-up, period. If not for their tragic inability to keep their cool, the coronavirus scare would have been anything but. To ignore the seminal role of…
Apple should be free to hire whomever it wants, and without regard to what its critics think. The previous assertion is about private property and freedom, but it’s worth adding that depending on the…
A federal tax levied on a New York City resident is a tax on a Floridian. The previous truth is rarely discussed by economists and pundits focused on Floridians who’ve escaped blue state taxes, but…
In 2020, West Virginia University president E. Gordon Gee memorably quipped to the New York Times that he wanted “to build a wall around West Virginia and keep all the kids here. A state can’t…
