You Didn’t Have to Watch To Know Gavin Newsom Beat Ron DeSantis
It seems DeSantis went into the debate armed with emotional economic arguments, and they lost him a debate he could have easily won
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Book Review: Martin Peretz’s Excellent ‘The Controversialist’
Martin Peretz is a person of the left who feels the left has left him. He’s strongly anti-communist, but more than a bit too hawkish for me. Whatever your views, I think his book is very much worth…
Technology Is Rapidly Retiring the Notion of Retirement
Retirement is vanishing before our eyes. Probably in the lifetimes of our children it will take on dated, past tense connotations like the telephone booth. One can only hope. People are happier when…
Pro-Growth Tax Cuts Reduce the Burden On the Rich. Trump’s Increased It
Growth matters, it’s crucial, and it can best be achieved when the tax burden is shrunk for those most capable of saving over spending.
The Fed’s So-Called ‘Inflation Fight’ Was a Big, Fat Non Sequitur
The inflation fight was a non sequitur, not to mention that the higher prices had nothing to do with inflation. The wonder is if the various economic religions will ever accept that the fastest path…
My Addiction to Parsimony Is Powerful, and Sometimes Expensive
It was late in the day at Waterloo. Wellington had chosen the high ground. For hours, the British withstood wave after wave of attacks. Their orderly and well-disciplined lines did not…
Drink Deeply of Alabama’s 4th & 31 Miracle. It’s Past Tense.
All decisions are “business decisions.” The bet here is that in time this decision will be looked back on as a really bad one.
The Adult Critics of Instagram Really Need to Grow Up
We must be a seriously rich country with very few real problems if media members and grandstanding politicians are attacking Instagram and Meta for having young users.
Book Review: Walter Isaacson’s Spellbinding ‘Elon Musk’
How fortunate we are to have Elon Musk, how fun it is to read about him, and how exciting if we could know now whom Isaacson will write about ten years from now.
TikTok Nailbiters Would Be Wise To Bone Up On Viktor Belenko
U.S. businesses are expanding rapidly in China. Do you trust their instincts, or that of a political structure that was once so certain about the Soviet threat?
If AI Can’t Exceed Human Abilities, Then There’s No Point To AI
Tractors, cars and computers are ubiquitous today precisely because they thankfully surpassed human ability, and the expectations of many skeptics back then. Let’s hope AI does too.
Javier Milei Needn’t ‘Dollarize’: Market Forces Have Done It for Him
Argentina is already “dollarized.” For Javier Milei to decree dollarization would be for him to insert the state into monetary policy.
The Suspicious Federalization of App Downloads for Teens
What will slow the arrival of tomorrow is the federalization of downloads. This law shouldn’t pass.
Who Knows Business Better? Pundits, or Those In Business?
American CEOs overseeing a large and growing China presence know exponentially more about the on-the-ground reality in the country than do their critics.
Contra the Experts, ‘Energy Dependence’ Doesn’t Shrink ‘National Wealth’
Imagine how staggeringly poor we would be absent all the mechanization and subsequent productive leaps born of oil’s discovery as a crucial source of fuel.
A Brilliant Idea That Will Generate Wealth, and Enhanced Valuations
My brother Walter is one cheap bastard. I say this with great admiration. I’m pretty good at squeezing a nickel, but Wally…..Jesus, he’s in a league by himself!…
There’s a Singular Fix for Inflation, and It’s All About Standards
Without standards, money loses value not because it’s circulating too much, but because it circulates in lesser and lesser amounts. The theories are all wrong. To erase inflation, adopt standards.…
The Bigger Meaning of Aaron Rodgers’s Potential Return In 2023
This is the real crisis. It’s no reach to say that absent massive government consumption all of these decades, Rodgers would already be playing again.
The Well Overdone Conceit of ‘Rare Earth’ Alarmists
There’s nothing to all the handwringing about China and “rare earths” despite what economically confused media members and politicians believe.
Do Conservatives Support Taxpayers, or Do They Support Taxpayers?
That the rich account for the vast majority of federal revenues is a logical and empirical reality. It’s a sad reality too, and it’s one that is felt most by those not rich.
As Regulators Attack Banks, ‘Systemic Risk’ Finds a New Address
For the Fed to require banks to expand their capital cushions in the aftermath of SVB is the equivalent of Andy Reid telling Patrick Mahomes to take laps since Jets quarterback Zach Wilson threw an…
There’s Only One Fix for Inflation: It Has Nothing to Do With the Fed
If the goal is to end inflation, there’s a simple answer. It has nothing to do with the Fed. And never has.
The Way To Do Politics From Someone With Incredible Wisdom
George Washington is my “home skillet.” I grew up just a few miles from where he did in the Northern Neck of Virginia. It’s a safe assumption he visited, perhaps spent the…
The ‘Fraud’ Charges Against Trump Bring New Meaning to Bogus
Love or hate Donald Trump, the fraud charges against him are hard to take seriously. The very notion that he could trick banks in better lending terms by faking the valuation of his assets is too…