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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…
“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,…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
No one buys, sells, borrows, or lends with “money.” Production buys and sells production, while borrowing and lending are an exchange of products over longer stretches of time in return for more…
How soon we forget that cryptocurrencies were given life by the instability of fiat currencies… Continue reading on Forbes.
Putting aside the moral reasons we are taught not to copy one’s work in grammar school, there is the practical concern your classmate may know as little as you do… Continue reading in the Gettysburg…
“If you’re ignorant, books won’t laugh at you.” Those are the words of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), and hopefully a spur to more humble approaches when it comes to “saving” education. Education…
While Americans were firing up grills and welcoming the start of summer over Memorial Day weekend, a quiet bombshell dropped half a world away that has reshaped the global artificial intelligence…
Donald Trump “took out over 85 percent of Iran’s defense industrial base; sank its navy; grounded its air force; damaged its centrifuges; and decimated its ballistic missile capabilities,…
Peggy Noonan is asking if we can “Survive” the AI revolution? Her skepticism about Silicon Valley has her predicting that a tendency to isolate will grow with AI, that “It will pull people away from…
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour was a smashing success, but it in no way sparked domestic or global economic growth. Quite the opposite most likely. More on the Swift tour in a bit. For now, it’s useful to…
When economists and pundits write with performative alarm about the urgency of shrinking the national debt, and subsequently search for ways to raise more tax revenue to shrink it, they write as…
A willingness to accept the “Maestro” bouquets errantly thrown his way ultimately became his burden… Continue reading on Forbes.
Patting a Fed Chair on the head for knowing what’s obvious… Continue reading on Forbes.
“Sorority consultant” is a profession, and a well-paid one at that. With achieving the “right” bid increasingly a must thing for a growing number of females born to parents with somewhat limitless…
“If you could fog a mirror, you could get into the University of Florida.” That’s how a longtime Floridian described the admissions’ process of old. How things have changed. As a recent Wall Street…
Why is Netflix founder Reed Hastings so rich? It’s a clown question, right? Everyone knows why he’s worth billions, and it’s because he founded a company that is worth over $300 billion. Except that…
“In our political age of envy, the press and Democrats are preoccupied by Elon Musk’s otherworldly wealth. But he has enriched the country by building a remarkable company.” That was from an…
As is well known, SpaceX floated its shares last week. Elon Musk is the world’s first, but surely not last, trillionaire. Let’s refer to Musk as the Frederic Bastiat “seen.” From there, let’s pivot…
With it’s fixed supply, the cryptocurrency indicts monetarist and Austrian theory like nothing else… Continue reading on Forbes.
Milton Friedman was sometimes wrong. Revered by right and many on the left, a look back reveals thoughts and actions that were sometimes puzzling. Take the work Friedman did at the U.S. Treasury…
