There's Something About Inherited Wealth That 'Entitles' Theft
She poisoned the damn dog. I’m pretty sure she killed her ex-husband. For the love of money People will steal from their mother For the love of money People will rob their own brother…
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Millionaire Renters: Start of a Multi-Bracket Trend
“We steadily began to realize the magnitude of the task ahead of us, not even in terms of financial resources, but just time and effort and coordination. The hour that we can save a day, it’s time…
It’s Lost on Christopher Waller That Shareholders Require Returns
According to a recently released report from the New York Fed, Americans collectively owe over $1.1 trillion on their credit cards. Reports like this have a tendency to elicit bad ideas from…
Where’s Walter Williams As Fed ‘Cuts’ Rates 50 Basis Points?
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…
As ‘Tough Jobs’ Multiply, Retirement Parties Will Vanish
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…
Saddling Banks With P2P Scams Screams Non Sequitur
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.
Book Review: George Gilder’s Brilliant ‘The Israel Test’
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
Don’t Be Ridiculous, TikTok Is Already American Owned
If TikTok were in fact a front for the CCP, it wouldn’t possess the American investment to be a front.
In the State of Virginia, the Past Is Invariably the Present
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.…
Congress Unwittingly Creates a Canadian ‘Jobs Multiplier’
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…
The Federal Reserve Can Neither Cause Nor Deter a Recession
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.
The Education of Sally Muffinsheep By the Great Rob Smith
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…
The Supreme Court Must Stop Climate Extortion Schemes
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…
A Government Efficiency Commission? Can We Be More Ridiculous?
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.
With Marco Rubio’s Plans, Who Needs Central Planning?
“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…
Like Tom Cruise With Movie Theatres, Amazon Saved Bookstores
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?
Why On Earth Would Soft Hiring ‘Tee Up Fed Rate Cuts’?
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.”
Despite What You’re Told, the “MSM” Can’t Make Kamala Harris a Winner
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…
Nvidia Has Been Quite Relevant To Stocks, Which Means the Fed Can’t 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…
There's No "Joy" In Misery, Democrats: Cut Ties With the Dems
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…
Dems’ Absurd ‘Russian Interference’ Claims Are Election Interference
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…
Harris and Walz want you to trust them to run a $7 trillion enterprise
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…
Book Review: Anya Gillinson’s Remarkable ‘Dreaming In Russian’
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…
U.S. Steel: Trump and Harris Are Being Led, Not Leading
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.