Concerns Regarding AK SB 262
Dear Senator: My name is Jon Decker and I am a senior fellow at the Parkview Institute supporting economic freedom. I am writing to express my strong opposition to Senate Bill No. 262. While the…
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We Won’t Outcompete China by Keeping U.S. Tech Small
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren is back on the warpath against American chip manufacturer NVIDIA. This time, it was the purchase of SchedMD that earned her ire. But when factoring in her…
Why Do Nice People Let People Who Hate Them Steal Their Money?
All civilizational knowledge is built on history. A 3-year-old touches a hot stove, burns his finger, and then knows—forever—not to do it again. Remember when you busted your…
Concerns Regarding Louisiana HB 190
Dear Senator: I am writing to formally express my strong opposition to HB 190 due to its critical implications for the digital economy. While the stated intent of ensuring “reasonable care” in…
Aren’t We Making Too Big a Deal About Fed’s Balance Sheet?
The Fed was buying what others would have bought absent the Fed. Which means disposal of its assets won’t be fraught… Continue reading on Forbes.
An Unrivaled American Work Ethic Is a Powerful Immigrant Magnet
An insatiable American work ethic is what attracts immigrants to the United States. So, when Americans lament the arrival of would-be workers, they’re in a very real sense yelling at themselves. Work…
Rising Life Expectancy and Soaring Inequality Signal Beautiful Retirement
The retirement outlook grows better by the day. That’s because we’re living much longer right as wealth inequality is poised to skyrocket. It’s a brilliant combination. For background, Wall Street…
Ben Sasse Couldn’t Care Less Where a Pancreatic Cancer Cure Comes From
Ben Sasse couldn’t care less where a cure comes from, he just wants to survive. Sasse didn’t tell me that, and he didn’t need to. His desire to live is all over his face, literally and figuratively.…
Concerns Regarding MO HB 1887
Dear Senator, I am writing to express my strong opposition to House Bill 1887, particularly the provisions within the House Committee Substitute that incorporate components of social media regulation…
Market Prices Don’t Much Care About Democrats and Republicans
Market prices are arrived at through infinite decisions and actions taking place every millisecond of every day around the world. Capitalism is happily too fast for politicians and policy scholars…
The Overwhelming Absurdity of Jury Vote Against Live Nation
A verdict based on the most narrow definition of the market… Continue reading on Forbes.
Tax Rates Are Dangerously Misleading As a Tax Burden Gauge
U.S. workers are – by far – the most taxed workers in the world. Evidence supporting the previous claim can be found in $39 trillion worth of federal debt. Yet not everyone agrees. A recent report by…
Awash In Moronic Economic Policies Crafted by the Overeducated
It seems we, as a nation, are awash in moronic economic theories put into practice by overly “educated” politicians who don’t even know how to change a flat tire. The best…
The Problem With Kevin Warsh Isn’t His Wealth, It’s His Wealth
The post-Fed meaning of the Fed… Continue reading on Forbes.
By Conservative Metrics, the Iran War Is a Monumental Blunder
“The U.S. has destroyed most of Iran’s navy and neutered what remains of it. Its air defenses no longer exist. Some large part of its ballistic missiles have been used, destroyed or damaged.” That’s…
Cancer Cures In the ‘Closed Economy’ That Is the World Economy
Arthur Laffer has long explained the genius of trade through the horrors of incurable forms of cancer. Considering, for instance, pancreatic cancer, Laffer asks rapt listeners if they would refuse a…
TikTok Is to Republicans What Fox Is to Democrats
The launch of Fox News remains one of the great free market stories of modern times. While conservatives had long expressed frustration with the left-wing bias that defined traditional media, Fox…
All Government Spending Is Painful, and Paid for Right Now
Economic thought with any pretense of seriousness is all about removing all barriers to production. No doubt taxes are a barrier, as are regulations, tariffs, currency devaluation, and government…
Neither Balanced Budgets Nor ‘Starve the Beast’ Will Limit Government
Balancing the budget will never, ever shrink the federal government opposite what the experts at Cato, Mercatus, and other right-of-center think tanks tell you. The reason why can yet again be found…
Don’t let trial lawyers bankrupt America’s tech sector
My guess is most people don’t recall their high school graduation. I probably wouldn’t remember mine either, if not for a single observation made by our class valedictorian. My most esteemed…
Opposition to Costa Rica’s draft Technical Regulation RTCR-525:2025 – Ban on Nicotine Pouches
To: Costa Rica’s Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Commerce (MEIC)Subject: Opposition to Costa Rica’s draft Technical Regulation RTCR-525:2025 – Ban on Nicotine PouchesDate: 4/12/2026 To whom it may…
Private Credit Also Couldn’t Care Less About Federal Reserve
No amount of Fed fiddling can keep credit away from production… Continue reading on Forbes.
The Bullish Meaning of a Trip to the Gasoline Station
Filling up your car is a big deal. George Gilder has made the crucial point that all the inputs for cars and gasoline are as old as the earth, but that cars and fuel only reached mankind for a tiny…
Book Review: Eswar Prasad’s “The Doom Loop”
As the illness of the late Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane escalated, and with it Crane’s pessimism about how much time he had left, I would tell him he had to stick around lest the members of our…