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Mitch Daniels looks admiringly in the mirror through the words he puts on a page. See his latest Washington Post op-ed, and his comment that “No impulse is more human than wishfulness, the tendency…
Last week after the bill was signed, Spanberger had a hen party with her supporters where they gleefully cackled about what a great day it was, lacking the cognitive ability to understand…
What fractures globalized production naturally results in higher prices just as what integrates global production naturally results in lower prices… Continue reading on Forbes.
“I need my papa!” That’s what a five-year old Mexican child said to her mother, according to the Washington Post. Her father had been deported. How to explain to a small child why your father isn’t…
Kristina Crane gets to watch her grandson’s little league baseball games. On its own that’s a nice thought, but it’s a miracle in consideration of the fact that Crane lives in Falls Church, VA, and…
Last week President Trump said that the high price of oil is “a very small price to pay” for keeping nukes out of Iran. His Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, added that if Iran got a nuclear weapon,…
From the earliest days of RealClearMarkets (2007), “bubble” has rarely reared its empty, utterly meaninglyess head in headlines. What was true about “bubble” in 2007 remains true today. What never…
Government spending is the biggest, most economy-sapping tax of all. While Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg will work at all sorts of tax rates, none can work and innovate without capital.…
This country could use a new Ronald Reagan. Majestic, uplifting rhetoric sells. I like President Donald Trump’s ball-busting style. I like that he’s transparent and…
All loans are production in return for production always and everywhere created in the private sector… Continue reading on Forbes.
“Grit” is so overrated. It implies that economic growth is an effect of doing what we must to get by. What an awful existence, what an untrue presumption. If there are doubters, they need only…
Everyone is frustrated by the high price of gasoline. But it’s important to keep the blame where it’s due, on the economic cost of war, because politicians are quick to follow Rahm Emanuel’s old…
“The older generation had certainly pretty well ruined this world, before passing it on to us.” That was John F. Carter, in the Atlantic Monthly. It was September 1920, and Carter was channeling what…
Some overestimate the government’s ability to develop novel solutions to challenging problems. NASA’s spacefaring efforts were eventually surpassed by SpaceX, which has maintained a 100% safety…
“The WBD Deal Puts Hollywood, and Democracy, at Risk.” That was the headline for an opinion piece written by Jane Fonda last December. Fonda feared Neflix’s acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery…
It is a common refrain among young Americans that they feel priced out of the housing market and have begun to question if homeownership is even attainable… Continue reading on Rawlins Times.
“Our story wasn’t unusual. Because the median house was within our financial reach, members of my generation were able to begin homeownership early in our careers and parlay the increased value of…
Since it ignores why we have deficits and debt in the first place, a balanced budget rule would vastly expand the size of the federal government. To understand why, we need only contemplate the…
What the Federal Reserve does has nothing to do with inflation. The central bank is not the source of the hyperinflation that Mises disciples (this is a shame simply because Mises himself was…
“In college, you had certain career paths. There was law, medicine, that kind of thing. You didn’t get on the Lampoon in order to have a career in comedy because there were no careers in comedy.”…
FTT coins, the same coins that entitled owners to a third of FTX’s annual profits, initially fetched roughly .5 cents per. Wrapped in the latter, along with the recent private valuation of Anthropic…
What if the United States were really and truly a low-tax country whereby legislators, bound and dedicated to the Founders’ deep skepticism about government, made it their legislative aim to severely…
For an economy to grow, it’s necessary that capital reaches its highest perceived use as quickly as possible. From this seemingly trite statement of the obvious we can conclude that information…
The burden of government consumption is now, and frequently felt in gruesome, heartbreaking ways right now. The debt burden left behind to the sainted grandchildren is easy compared to what we’re…
