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A famous libertarian economic thinker, and memory says it was the late Walter Williams, was once presented on a talk show with the idea of a higher minimum wage. The suggestion was something like…
Songwriter extraordinaire Burt Bacharach died in 2023 at the age of 94. In a recent New York Times interview of Herb Alpert, the musician extraordinaire looked back to 2021 when Bacharach called. He…
While electronic payments and transfers are quite a bit safer than they used to be, there remains the forever problem of individuals devising ways to separate those with wealth from it.
George Gilder writes that “Planetary prosperity depends on the outsized genius of a tiny minority of human beings.” He’s right, and this explains the urgent case he makes in The Israel Test
If TikTok were in fact a front for the CCP, it wouldn’t possess the American investment to be a front.
Last night I sang Dixie. Like the other 25 attendees, I put my hand over my heart, and whupped and hollered at the end of the song. Here in Virginia, history bubbles out of the ground.…
You know how the best NBA and MLB teams spend enormous sums of money scouting talent around the world? The best U.S. corporations do the same. A failure to do so comes at the cost of future…
Talent matched with capital drives all economic advance, always and everywhere. Archaeologists will marvel at how many smart people bought into the Fed myth either way.
Sally Muffinsheep was a babe. Now 48, by the time she was 16, it was evident she was going to have a comfortable life. Men would always fall all over her to help her. Born into an upper…
Chevron recently announced that it is moving out of California after almost a century and a half in the state. No wonder, since Sacramento sued the company, along with a number of other oil…
Elon Musk recently revived the notion of “government efficiency.” No, there’s no such thing. Always and everywhere there’s no such thing. It’s a mirage.
“But in May 2015, Beijing went public with a 10-year plan to dominate high-value, high-technology sectors – with the unspoken goal of destroying America’s economic supremacy.” Those are the words of…
It has always been said that Amazon killed off the local bookstore. How could what profoundly increased access to books and the fun of reading them have killed off local stores?
Marks came to mind while reading a front page Wall Street Journal story in response to Friday’s employment report. It read along the lines of “Soft Hiring Will Tee Up Fed Rate Cuts.”
Just as large majorities of the electorate were exposed to Biden’s onrushing senility, so will they be exposed to Harris’s numerous weaknesses. Which means if the Republicans lose, the loss will be…
Last Tuesday Nvidia shed over $279 billion in value. It was the biggest one-day paper loss for a corporation in the history of the stock market. As a CNN report put it, “only 27 companies on the…
To a certain degree, we all belong to tribes. It takes a strong sense of right and wrong to leave one’s tribe. I’m an Episcopalian, well sorta, maybe, not really anymore. Our…
Are they really laying the groundwork for more of the “the Russians did it”? About the previous question, “they” is the Democrats, and “the Russians” are their go-to anytime elections don’t go their…
Few modern presidents have rear-ended the U.S. economy more badly than President Joe Biden and his “integral” number two in command, Vice President Kamala Harris. Prices of everything from groceries…
Anya Gillinson’s beautifully written and remarkable new memoir, Dreaming in Russian. Gillinson’s life story is largely about her time in the United States, after she, her mother, and sister Liana…
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris have both said that if elected president, they will block Nippon Steel’s planned, $14.9 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel. They’re not being leaders.
According to Ip and GDP, savings are a global problem. For the countries in receipt of the savings. The inflow of capital quite literally brings down GDP. Yes, the more one looks at GDP the dumber it…
The Roots of STEM Excellence” can’t be found in instruction, but in people too brilliant to be held down by non-admission to an elite school, or a lack of schooling altogether.
Freedom lovers will love what’s ahead because inequality is the surest sign (and feature) of freedom, and also the most certain sign that former luxuries are being made commonplace. As always, the…
