Student Loans Aren’t the Cause of Rising Tuition
Abolish federal student loans ASAP. Government should not be inserting itself into education. Just don’t expect tuition to decline.
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To Reduce Budget Deficits, Gut the IRS’s Budget
We have massive debt because Treasury collects way too much tax revenue, and that’s because the American rich are wildly overtaxed.
John Cochrane Should Give Producers a Hand, Not the Federal Reserve
No doubt prices for many goods are higher post-Covid lockdowns, but Cochrane has mistaken the culprit.
Congress Can’t Regulate What It Doesn’t Understand
Policy types can’t stand anarchy, and that’s a problem for progress. How about we – for once – just give anarchy a chance?
The ‘Functional Collapse’ at the Southern Border Is Central Planning
Don’t call what’s happening in Texas functional collapse. This is the always and everywhere of government planning.
The ‘Monoculture’ U.S. University Campus Fallacy
The kids are alright. And for the adults who still disagree, never forget that the same was said about your generation
Oh the Hubris! The Sneering Elitism of the 'Educated'!
I remember it was 6:30 on a Monday morning, spring semester my 4 th year at the University of Virginia. I was drinking a Budweiser and eating a plate of Mexican food at the La Hacienda in…
The Biggest Problem at the Federal Reserve Is a Lack of Original Thought
The Fed is full of PhDs bereft of the simple knowledge required to gauge economic health. It’s held down by a near total lack of originality.
Market Signals Reject Fear of Rampant Socialism on Campus
That corporations continue to court college students so assiduously is a market signal that neither the campuses nor their students are as lost as alarmists want to believe.
Would Sam Bankman-Fried Face Prison Time If FTX Had Been Worth $32 Million?
The bigger the crack-up the better, because the big errors signal enormous information-creation that will bring us closer to the kind of knowledge that represents enormous progress and wealth.
Congress Won’t Address the Debt, Markets Yawn. Listen to Markets
Deficit hawks continue to make the debt the story, which means they’re distracted and they’re distracting their flock. $33 trillion in debt isn’t the problem as evidenced by how much investors line…
The Path To Lower Prices Has Little To Do With Monetary Policy
Every product and service that we enjoy today used to be nosebleed expensive. Which is why it’s strange that the various economic religions focus so much of their energies on monetary policy. They…
Monetarism Is Suffocated By Its Endless Contradiction
Money isn’t abundant in Palo Alto but scarce in Baltimore because the state decreed it so, rather money in circulation is production determined. It’s a market phenomenon every bit as powerful as the…
Contra Friedman’s Disciples, ‘Tight Money’ Doesn’t Slay Inflation
“Money supply” is a conceit on par with Five Year Plans, the only difference that Five Year Plans thankfully died in the 20th century.
Hey Conservatives, More ‘Sticks and Stones,’ Less Speech Police
Speech, including ugly speech, is just that. Let’s not mimic the left and its ugly, cancel culture ways. If we believe we’re correct, we shouldn’t fear their ugly speech.
Henry Kissinger Hagiography Mistakes Real Foreign Policy Genius
The commentary about Henry Kissinger included some of the warts, but gave him major credit for opening up China. That’s hard to take seriously.
Nikki Haley Insults the GOP Base By Refusing To Insult It
Nikki Haley bills herself as “a firm believer in economic freedom,” but to watch her speak or read her opinion pieces is to read all the ways she intends to limit economic freedom.
Javier Milei Must Sideline Economists, Embrace Henry Hazlitt
It only took Javier Milei two days in office to err in monumental fashion. If we ignore just how damaging currency devaluations are (the write-up doesn’t) to individuals, we can’t ignore that they’re…
Proponents of Virus ‘Stimulus’ Spending Revive Helicopter Imagery
In Rampell’s words, policymakers responding to a contraction of their own making “swung into action with a swiftness and single-mindedness they hadn’t exhibited in prior downturns.” Keynesianism just…
Opposite What Peggy Noonan Projects, ‘This Time’ Isn’t Different
Peggy Noonan worries that “AI is putting the fate of humanity in the hands of the men and women of Silicon Valley, who invented the internet as it is, including all its sludge.
Will the Pundit Class Please Alert Business To Where All the ‘Free Money’ Is?
“Our company is thirty days from going out of business.” That’s the motto inside Nvidia, a company presently worth around $1.148 trillion.
Biden Misses On Inflation, But So Do His Critics
Asked about inflation recently, Joe Biden presumably read that it’s a consequence of corporations “gouging” consumers…But even if corporations had the power to set prices, a high price born of…
If You Fight Inflation With Fed Rate Hikes, You Don’t Fight Inflation
It’s worth repeating that higher prices are at best an effect of inflation, not inflation itself. To say they’re inflation is like saying suntans cause the sun.
Dear Conservatives, Please Stop Playing the Victim
The main message to conservatives here is that we’re not victims, nor are our kids. A walk of any college campus today is a reminder of this truth.