Mick Mulvaney’s Deficit Sanctimony Insults Limited Government
Mick Mulvaney is disappointed with “everybody who gets elected” because they’re not like – you guessed it – Mick Mulvaney.
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Writing by John Tamny and Parkview contributors, from the latest commentary to the collected archive.
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‘If I Built a School’ Is a Look at the Future of Schools
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…
TikTok’s Theft By Paranoid Politicians Is Very Third World
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.
The Great Thomas Massie Mistakes a Priced ‘Crisis’ for the Real One
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…
There’s No Such Thing As ‘Easy Money,’ There’s Just Production
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…
Technology Will Soon Make It Possible For Kids To Sleep In
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”…
If National Security Is the Goal, Then Leaving TikTok Alone Is the Answer
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…
Bernie Sanders Tries to Legislate Leisure
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…
Can You Name a UConn Starter? A Look Into College Football’s Future
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…
‘Wait and See’ Doesn’t Excuse Sitting Out the 2020 Lockdowns
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…
App-Fearful Conservatives Pivot To Theft of TikTok
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…
Central Banks Neither Own Debt Nor ‘Print Money’ To Buy It
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…
An Article That's Not About Economics, Investing, or Politics...
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,…
Abolishing ‘Legacy’ College Admissions Will Hurt Non-Legacies Most
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.
Texas Legislators Are Harassing Businesses California-Style
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…
Cowardly Critics of TikTok Hide Behind Vladimir Lenin
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,…
Quite Unlike His Investing Style, Bill Ackman’s Economics Scream Conventional
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.
TikTok Paranoia, Brought To You By the Architects of the Corona-Lockdowns
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?
The Federal Reserve’s Challenge Is Economists, Not Too Much Growth
There was a time when it was accepted wisdom at the Hoover Institution that market interventions slowed economic output. How things change.
To Keep Foreigners From Driving Down Wages, Let Them In
The minute anyone sets foot in the U.S. their value automatically rises thanks to massive investment directed at production processes here.
Efforts By My Fellow Conservatives To Ban TikTok Are Misguided
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 Was Watching the Academy Awards On Sunday and...
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…
A Lack of a Plan Is Just What China Needs In Order to Grow
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…
The Hideous U.S. Attack on TikTok Threatens Its Existence
Not just anyone can make TikTok what it’s become, and of course what it’s become is deafening evidence that it’s not controlled by the CCP as is.