Why Do Harvard Students and Teachers Tell Lies About Israel?
By now, I am sure you’ve heard that 31 Harvard University student organizations are holding Israel “entirely responsible” for the Hamas terrorist attack that brutally…
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We Need Term Limits Precisely Because So Many Like Their Congressman
Congress is widely loathed by Americans who continue to overwhelmingly re-elect their own representative. This paradox speaks to the importance of strict term limits.
Matt Gaetz Beat Kevin McCarthy, But Hasn’t Yet Won the Debate
The problem with government can’t be found in how the funds it wastes are extracted, rather the problem can be found in the extraction. Eventually deficit hawks will realize this truth, that the real…
Indifference Will Kill Off Social Security, Not a Lack of Money
Uncertainty about Social Security’s future is more of a political discussion than it is a discussion of actual market realities.
As She Attacks Amazon, Lina Khan Shouts at the Past
The FTC’s focus is essentially on the past, while Amazon spends enormous amounts of money trying to discover the future
Goldman Sachs’s Economists Need to Get To Know David Solomon
Every time a government shutdown happens, or is threatened to happen, economics reporters find economists at Goldman Sachs and other prestige institutions willing to tell them how much GDP will…
Matt Gaetz Took Away Congress's Cell Phone
OH MY GOD! The sky is falling. Kevin McCarthy has been ousted as speaker of the House! The Republic is in shambles. The Republicans are going to lose all of their seats. Why, this looks…
The Dangerous Pointlessness of Bank Capital Requirements
Banks, like any business, never run out of money. They run out of investor trust. That’s why the only capital requirement for banks should be no capital requirement. They only succeed insofar as they…
The Government Is About to Shut Down. Pop the Champagne Corks!
Boo Hoo. The government is about to shut down. Pop the Champagne corks! Remember 2020, the federal government shut down the whole world! President Trump listened to the…
Failure Won’t Hurt China, a Bailout of Country Garden Will
China’s Evergrande has been staring bankruptcy in the face since 2021. More recently, media members have fingered Country Garden as yet another large China property company that could fall.…
No, There’s No Near-Term ‘Sugar High’ From Government Spending
Governments can only centrally plan the direction of resources insofar as they’ve taken them from us first, and they can only offer tax incentives insofar as they’ve overtaxed us first. The economic…
The Boundless Foolishness Underlying ‘Soft Landing’ Mythology
It’s a waste of words to say the central planning that underlies Fed conceit always fails, not to mention that the surest path to lower prices is economic growth as is.
To See the Problem, the Freedom Caucus Must Look In the Mirror
Good arguments gradually win. The Freedom Caucus lacks them. It will never succeed so long as it doesn’t understand its argument.
TikTok Faces Suffocating Government Authoritarianism…In the U.S.
If we’re free-speech absolutists, we’re by definition absolutists about the sources of speech. What’s being done to TikTok is embarrassing, and it won’t redound to its political critics in the U.S.
If the Economy ‘Collapses,’ Biden Should Go To Bed, Trump Should Golf
If voters really want to avoid a future “financial crisis,” they would vote for Biden if he promises to go to bed after the next financial institution failure, and Trump if he promises to play golf.
Five Words That Kept Ross Perot From Becoming the World’s Richest
In the late 1970s, Ken Langone connected Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank with Ross Perot. They were trying to raise money for what became Home Depot, and Perot was offered the chance to purchase 70%…
Chinese Economists Disagree With Xi Jinping. But Xi Is Right.
The consensus among the allegedly wise is that China is “enduring its worst economic slowdown in years.” If the latter described the United States, economists and pundits would be calling for massive…
The Fed As the Inflation Fix? Sorry, But Markets Aren’t That Stupid
That markets are incredibly stupid is pretty much implied in all the Federal Reserve commentary from the various economic religions. Think about it.
Why Are Members of the Right So Fearful of Inequality?
Americans are mostly wrestling with “keeping up with the Joneses.” If he’s right then he, his fellow libertarian inequality apologists, along with Ahmari, Rubio Cass, should praise inequality to the…
If They Tell You They Know What's Ahead, They're Lying
It’s that time of year. Fall. College football. Major League baseball playoffs. How bout those Orioles! One of my favorite events is my college fraternity, St. Anthony Hall’s…
Government Continues to Reap the Bitter Fruits of Its Lockdown Hysteria
If the arrival of the virus was a crisis as lockdown proponents so confidently asserted back in 2020, their hysteria offered the best case for government doing nothing.
Budget Deficits Don’t Power Economic Growth, They’re a Consequence of It
The implied point in the Post headline was that government spending makes most sense when the economy is weak, a supposition suggesting that central planning of resource allocation is most needed…
Retirement Plans Should Protect Employees From Retirement-Plan Experts
Ian Ayres and Quinn Curtis are law professors at Yale and UVA. Their area of expertise is retirement, and as they see it, the typical employee paying into retirement funds must be saved from himself.…
Whistleblowers As the New Ambulance Chasers, Only Much Worse
Corporate “whistleblowers” are billed by media types as innocents beset by scoundrels as they expose alleged wrongdoing inside corporations.