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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…
A disturbingly paranoid U.S. political class demands that Beijing-based TikTok owner ByteDance sell TikTok to a U.S. buyer or face a ban.
Massie must train his focus on the here and now. Because that’s the crisis. What companies and jobs aren’t being created, what technological and health advances aren’t being funded, and what takings…
How did inflation become so associated with central banks? Inflation is as old as government-currency issuance is, so to make inflation a central bank story is a bit of a non sequitur. Governments…
Parents will embrace a change that technology will make simple. Kids will finally get to sleep in, and because they’ll be able to sleep in, mornings will be much less of a nightmare. Isn’t “Big Tech”…
Arguably the worst arguments made in favor of a forced sale of TikTok have to do with national security. Missed by pundits and politicians is that trade is the best protection of all for countries…
Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a bill last week that would establish a “standard” 32-hour workweek and lower the overtime threshold after which employers are required to pay time and a half. The…
As always, all decisions are business decisions. College football has made a bad one, and soon enough we’ll be wondering who plays for teams we don’t watch, if at all, until late December or early…
The worst arguments against the lockdowns inspired by the coronavirus were medical and statistical. To see why, it’s worth remembering that as humans we’ve evolved to protect ourselves from death and…
In their ongoing defense of the indefensible, conservatives defend threats by the political class to ban TikTok with weak-kneed arguments that TikTok could avoid the ban if they would just sell to…
It’s popular among the conspiracy-minded and central bank-obsessed (frequently the two go together) to suggest that governments establish central banks to buy their debt. The very notion is…
I’ve had a bit of a revelation the past couple days and thought I would share my thoughts. This article has nothing to do with economics, investing, politics, hot-looking women,…
Good and bad decisions come to mind as certain colleges and universities start to abolish “legacy admissions.” The University of Virginia is the latest school to do it. And that’s too bad.
How unfortunate if, in concert with the arrival of scores of Californians each day, Texas lawmakers begin to legislate in ways that caused more than a few of those arrivals from California to leave…
Vladimir Lenin famously asserted that the “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Some conservatives are hiding behind Lenin’s quip to justify their latest big,…
For Bill Ackman to suggest that rising energy costs could “cause inflation to rise” is for the investor to flip causation. It’s the equivalent of the assertion that suntans cause the sun.
Where’s the outrage over the remarkably sad fact that the U.S. political class is coming for our freedom yet again? How dare they after the immense damage they caused four years ago this month?
There was a time when it was accepted wisdom at the Hoover Institution that market interventions slowed economic output. How things change.
The minute anyone sets foot in the U.S. their value automatically rises thanks to massive investment directed at production processes here.
Hey folks, I’ve got a couple of great ideas. Let’s ban free speech and use the subterfuge that we are doing so to protect children! Let’s also quit trading with the rest…
So I Watched The Oscars.... for about a 1/2 an hour last night. When I first tuned in there were a bunch of Indians on stage whooping and hollering, beating a drum. At first, I thought I'd…
Just as the U.S. economy collapsed when panicky politicians decided to fight a virus with lockdowns, so did China’s where abject stupidity was allowed to last even longer. The answer in China is the…
