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Parker Field was an old wooden baseball stadium in Richmond. We were the # 1 farm team for the Yankees and then the Braves. The place had character. When I was 16, my brother Brick and Andy…
It used to be broadly understood that inflation was currency devaluation, not a politicized concept that warring ideologies could redefine on the fly. They’ve done exactly this in recent years by…
As always, what’s the point of trying to get through the long Russian novels without writing out the alleged insights? The Brothers Karamazov was much more difficult to follow than Crime and…
As index funds rise in prominence, so grows the belief that they’ll use the size of their buying to influence companies in politicized fashion. Except if they did as the critics imagine, they…
Former budget director Mick Mulvaney is the latest, but surely not the last to say that inflation is “too much money chasing too few goods.”
Fed watchers and economists write about and watch the Fed with breathy intensity. Can it bring prices down? No, it can’t.
The future will more and more be defined by feverish work that enables us to keep on working. Tiger Woods is an exciting look into this future.
Implicit in the right’s deep fear about low birthrates is that humans are static creatures in terms of capability such that fewer babies being born will reveal itself in greatly reduced economic…
Let’s be real. With the exception of a few die-hards, the only reason anyone knows when Donald Trump posts his “Truths” is because they read about it on platforms they actually care about.
Critics of Social Security, and there’s much to criticize, use the lack of a “lock box” or actual “trust fund” to make their emotional cases for the program’s looming insolvency, reduced benefits, or…
The FTC’s lawsuit runs at cross purposes with its stated intent of fostering competition. If the FTC really is spooked by Meta’s market power and size, it should get out of the way.
So what do Gangsta Boo and Douglas MacArthur have in common? Answer, together they offer the solution on how to fix the cesspool of higher education. Stay with me….. If you are one…
Gold sits at all-time highs in dollars. What that signals is that the dollar’s value against the constant that is gold is at all-time lows.
We argue that freedom for Americans to move as they wish through the 50 states is the biggest U.S. prosperity story, only for housing to restrain the mobility.
As opposed to AI destroying it, its allegedly broad usage more realistically indicates that higher education has destroyed itself.
Considering India in terms of the report from 2017, readers can happily bank on it that the number of Indians living without indoor or outdoor plumbing no longer reflects the number that prevailed…
Regardless of the ideological lean of governments, actions by them are not informed by the marketplace. And since they’re not, they negatively impact the people and businesses within their states…
Americans should be free to patronize any social media site they want for political information and thought, the empirical truth is that Americans in general, and young Americans in particular, don’t…
While Rampell wants her readers to believe Trump committed fraud vis-of-vis banks, everything about her column indicates the opposite.
Inflation is a policy choice of governments that long predates central banks that the various economic religions have oddly happened on as the creator and fix for inflation.
Oh, the hubris of man! Our expert class needs an ass whuppin. Memo to politicians: just because you sleazed your way into office by talking pretty and saying nothing doesn’t make you…
What’s going to fascinate about the gradual institutionalization of the 4-day week is that it realistically foretells a 7-day workweek, the productive 4-day worker putting in longer hours than ever,…
Mick Mulvaney is disappointed with “everybody who gets elected” because they’re not like – you guessed it – Mick Mulvaney.
The exciting features of the school Jack would like to build are many more than the ones mentioned in this write-up. They all raise questions having to do with how to build a school that, at least…
