Since When Is Progress Bad for White or Blue Collar Workers?
eople run from the work of the past, which is all the evidence we need that white collar work will get better and better as AI proliferates.
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As Savings Are Matched With Investment, Pessimists Should Rejoice
It’s so easy to be pessimistic, but the pessimism ignores that the whole world becomes more and more safe from socialism, communism and other ideologies as savings and investment grow.
“Inflation” Is a Full Employment Act For Economists
This will be the last pretentious Dostoevsky reference for a while, I promise. But since economists and their enablers still think of inflation as rising prices (there’s in reality a big difference…
Global Warming and Left Wing Professors Worry You? You Must Be Rich
The surest signs of immense prosperity in the here and now can be found in the problems that excite the minds of left (global warming) and right (left-wing professors).
Bitcoin Is Neither Money Nor Is It An Inflation Hedge
Circulation of good, trusted money is limitless yet there are strict limits to Bitcoin. That’s why it can never be money.
What Would the Global Warming Science Have Said About Dostoevsky’s Russia?
Proponents of the global warming theory claim that the warming is caused by the burning of fossil fuels. The theory implies that the primitive living conditions that preceded the discovery of…
Standing Athwart Federal Attempts To Equalize Healthcare Costs
Right now, there’s legislation in the House and Senate meant to limit hospital consolidation alongside efforts to equalize the cost of routine doctor/hospital visits. No thanks. As with all price…
In 'Demons,' Fyodor Dostoevsky Is Sending Us a Warning Today
Ten minutes ago, I finished reading Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Demons . Thus, my impressions are raw, but I want to record them before I learn what the professional literati class has…
A Case Against Bret Stephens’s Case For Trump, From a Trump Voter
I’ll always believe that the secret to Donald Trump’s success wasn’t his policy rhetoric, but his rhetorical style. That’s why Bret Stephens’s case for Donald Trump (Stephens can’t stand Trump) in…
In An Age of Soaring Inequality, Life Will Get Better and Better
If Jeff Bezos had been born in 1864 instead of 1964, no doubt he would have made his mark, but his genius would have touched exponentially fewer people.
Arthur Burns Sadly Isn’t Around To Defend Himself Against Arthur Burns
While it’s accepted wisdom among economists that Arthur Burns authored the 1970s inflationary breakout, he did no such thing.
College Kids Have Independent Minds, Including Harvard Kids
As always, the kids are alright, so much so that that they’ll live long enough and have the time and means enough to eventually complain about what Harvard is teaching future generations.
Book Review: Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Classic ‘Crime and Punishment’
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment is very sad, frequently hard to understand, but ultimately very difficult to put down.
Don’t Fear the Masses Mr. Musk, Immigration Is America’s Genius
If there was anyone you would expect to believe in humanity’s limitless potential, Elon Musk would seem to be the quintessential champion. Consider his trailblazing achievements: revolutionizing…
In ‘American Fiction,’ An Excellent Depiction of a Politically Incorrect Professor
No movie critic, I just like going to the movies. American Fiction is a very funny movie about a politically correct college professor’s frustration with what he refers to as “delicate” students,…
Mitch Daniels Needn’t Worry, Markets Will Worry for Him
Former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels is the latest, but surely not the last to predict crisis of the economic kind. You could fill more Rose Bowls than you have fingers with all the pundits who’ve…
If You’re Born American, You’re the Envy of the World
Love or hate immigration, it’s probably no reach to assume that most would agree those at the border are coming from much, much worse. Americans are incredibly lucky, and to much of the rest of the…
Claudia Sahm Yearns For a ‘Soft Landing’ That the Fed Can’t Engineer
Former Fed official Claudia Sahm believes a tight Fed “could still ruin” what she imagines could be a soft landing.
If Conservatives Loathe Harvard, Why All the Claudine Gay Outrage?
If the problem with Harvard is that it’s left wing, isn’t the better strategy to allow Harvard to continually weaken itself with people like Gay in charge?
A Letter To Interim Harvard President, Alan Garber
January 9, 2024 Mr. Alan Garber Interim President of the Harvard Corporation Members/Fellows of the Harvard Corporation c/o Office of the President Harvard University Massachusetts Hall…
There’s Record U.S. Oil Extraction, That’s Why Oil Is So Expensive
Oil is the most important commodity in the world, by far, and without it life as we know it would be defined by grinding poverty for the vast majority of the world in concert with primitive living…
Book Review: Michael Lewis’s Crucial ‘Going Infinite’
Much more capable and wiser financial minds than my own feel Sam Bankman-Fried is a fraud and a crook.
Retirement Savings Will Become the ‘4th Rail,’ Only for Taxes to Plummet
Increasingly work is joy, and a reflection of unique intelligence. People are saving less because they don’t in any way regard 65 as the endpoint of work.
The Federal Reserve Can’t ‘Boost’ President Biden, or Any President
We didn’t even have to get to 2024 for economists to start speculating on what the Fed might do to boost or harm the re-election chances of the incumbent president through rate cuts, or a lack of…