Gold Is The Constant—What Is the Signal In Its Major Decline?
Markets have no ideology. They simply are. Gold simply is. It doesn’t respond, rather it tells us about other things… Continue reading on Forbes.
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Harvard Doesn’t Require Fixing. Neither Do Stanford and Princeton
Harvard is thriving. So are Stanford and Princeton. See the tuition charged by all three: at Harvard it’s $59,000, at Princeton it’s $65,000, and it’s $67,000 at Stanford. Here’s the question, or…
Last Week, Kathy Hochul Told the New York Rich They're Unwelcome
Kathy Hochul, Governor of New York, is a political hack. Always has been. As a student at Syracuse, she was a very left-leaning political activist, organizing boycotts, lecturing the…
“K-Shaped Economies” Signal Soaring Abundance for All
Soaring wealth inequality is the surest sign of falling prices. You can’t have the latter without the former. Look at the richest Americans, then and now. John D. Rockefeller mass produced kerosene…
Pity Mohamed El-Erian, He Took Scott Bessent Literally
There’s no military strength without economic strength. Since governments produce nothing, their capacity to fund militaries a little or a lot is an effect of taxable access to prosperity. It’s…
Someone Remind Vivek Ramaswamy That Wealth Is Created, Not Printed
In his defense, Vivek Ramaswamy most likely didn’t write last week’s Wall Street Journal opinion piece. Still, if the advisers of his opponent for governor of Ohio (Amy Acton) grasp simple economics,…
Bill Archer’s Death Is Reminder That Spending Cuts Won’t Shrink Government
Spending cuts will not shrink the federal government. When politicians promise the opposite, they’re not telling the truth. “We must stop measuring compassion by the amount of money the government…
Blinded By a Baseless Birth Rate Obsession, Lyman Stone Misses the Real Crisis
Conservatives rightly mock the left for its endless alarmism about “global warming.” Whether the latter is a threat or not, the very notion that we humans can mitigate the warming power of a sun that…
The Preposterous Notion Of So-Called “Fed Independence”
The scholarly class must cease their pretense about the impossibility of “Fed independence.” They want no such thing… Continue reading on Forbes.
Immigration, and the “Failed State” Immigration Fallacy
In 1948 South Korea had per capita income of $48, a level of earnings that placed its economics below those of sub-Saharan African countries. At the time one U.S. official concluded that “Korea can…
Rejoice, the Four-Day Workweek Is Already Here
“Don’t count on it.” That’s what Joanne Lipman recently wrote at the New York Times, in a piece titled “The Elusive Promise of the Four-Day Workweek.” Lipman’s pessimism about the four-day workweek…
If U.S. Schools Are So Bad, Why Is America So Rich?
If education is so important to the development and future prosperity of young people, why doesn’t the latter reflect in compensation for teachers? It’s a question worth asking as conservatives…
Does College Make You More or Less Interesting? I Say Less
Much of college education is a complete scam. A joke. A terrible fraud and an immense money-laundering operation that guilts parents and taxpayers into distributing vast amounts of wealth…
Trump administration should avoid price controls
In the coming weeks, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expected to issue a new rule superseding a Biden-era interpretation of the Dodd-Frank Act that mandated banks provide data access to…
Data Centers Aren’t Crowding Out Investment, They’re Expanding It
Data centers, and the $1 trillion+ that is being invested in their creation, are “causing” overall weakness in the U.S. economy. That’s according to former Biden White House economic official,…
In the Federal Tax Debate, the Free-Market Side Is Being Played
Elon Musk’s enormous wealth will soon enough appear small. For evidence, see a popular chart listing the looming federal tax bills for multi-billionaires in the U.S. Musk will apparently be assessed…
Warsh Must Explain That The Fed Simply Can’t Fight Inflation
The Fed couldn’t fight what economists incorrectly deem inflation even if it wanted to… Continue reading on Forbes.
Union Pacific’s Merger With Norfolk Southern Has Life & Death Qualities
The proposed merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern is about life and death. Yes, you read that right. Which requires a brief digression. Specifically, to Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump…
Like It or Not, People From “Shithole Countries” Created the United States
The people on the Mayflower were lower middle class, and largely British. Which means they were lower middle-class arrivals from a country that was very poor. As Niall Ferguson wrote in his 2004 book…
Housing, Like Oil, Is Not As Simple As Pundits Want It To Be
“Please God, give me one more oil boom. This time I promise not to piss it away.” It was a popular bumper sticker in Texas in the 1980s. It’s worth remembering as experts who’ve never built houses,…
Don’t Worry, The U.S. Is Not Going the Way of Socialism
The Washington Post didn’t report it, but Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser recently attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new restaurant (Wheelhouse) in the high-end, Chevy Chase area of DC.…
As Parliament Takes Away Social Media, Aussie Youth Laugh
President Ford once “told” New York City to “Drop Dead.” Aussie youth are presently telling Parliament “You Don’t Matter.” Think the Social Media Minimum Age Act. Implemented in 2025 to establish a…
The U.S.: 250 Years of Back-to-Back World Championships
America's 250th anniversary is upon us. We are, and have always been, a great country. Indeed, the greatest the world has ever seen. Two hundred and fifty years of back-to-back world…
In Elon Musk’s Success We Can See the Absurdity of the Attacks On Alan Greenspan
It “was a hard company to keep alive.” That’s how Elon Musk described the rise of PayPal. Musk’s fortune is an effect of him creating companies that investors didn’t think amazing. With Tesla, SpaceX…