Phil Knight and Nike Enunciate the DOJ’s Fatuous Case Against Live Nation
Live Nation’s reward for risking everything on an uncertain tomorrow is a lawsuit from a federal government eager to tear it town.
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Clear filtersIkea Reminds Us Falling Prices, Not ‘Pricing Power,’ Cheer Investors
As always, economists (and the Schools they inspired) never disappoint. If we ignore that prices rarely have much to do with inflation (a currency phenomenon) as is, what a strange way to try and…
Dollar Stability, Not ‘Dollarization,’ Is the Fix for Javier Milei
Self-proclaimed libertarians claim Argentine president Milei must “dollarize.” Really? Why? And what on earth does government decreeing the dollar as the currency of exchange have to do with free…
Book Review: David Bahsen’s Essential ‘Full-Time’
David Bahnsen’s excellent new book is titled Full-Time: Work and the Meaning of Life. In it he makes a case that we were put here to produce.
It Doesn’t Matter If China Is ‘Winning’ the Green Tech Race
Wallace-Wells’s lament that the U.S. is well behind China is a feature, not a bug. Since we really don’t know, why not let China find out for us?
There’s No ‘Junk’ In Credit Card Swipe Fees, Just Essential Service
Credit/debit card issuers quite literally finance the purchases of customers, they enhance the ability of customers to make purchases by not limiting them to what’s in their pockets, and most of all…
Big Government Is a Bigger Threat Than ESG
I think the theory that is global warming an obnoxious conceit. But whether right or ignorant, I don’t want big government fighting these battles with the money of others.
Nvidia’s Unlikely Ascent Is An Enemy of Stalked-by-Fallacy ‘Economics’
Economists near monolithically believe the Fed can decree “easy money” via its funds rate, that government spending grows the economy, and that by pushing its funds rate low, the Fed can engineer…
Book Review: Tim Butcher’s Tragic and Engrossing ‘Blood River’
Early on in Blood River, Tim Butcher’s difficult-to-put-down but incredibly sad memoir of his trip across the Congo, he writes that it’s a place where “the normal rules of human development and…
DOJ Ankle Biters Attack Live Nation For Seeing What No One Saw
To read about the DOJ’s antitrust suit against Live Nation isn’t to find offense, but to realize that Live Nation saw a future amid a fraught time for the industry that its competitors did not. And…
Confused Keynesianism Informs Low-Birthrate Alarmism
The low-birthrate “crisis” is yet another falsehood belied by market signals and common sense. The alarmism is rooted in the Keynesian view that fewer babies means reduced future consumption that…
Watch ‘Pretty In Pink’ to Grasp the Unseen Horrors of Net Neutrality
How horrifying to think that the price control falsely described as “net neutrality” could deprive us of what the internet could be. And it’s what we aren’t “demanding” from the internet that should…
Texas Republicans Fight ‘Woke’ With Higher Taxes on Texans
In their efforts to fight off what they allege are “woke” business practices inside banks, Texas Republicans have taken to harassing financial institutions in a fashion long associated with “woke.”
Consider Kimbal Musk and Zip2 Before Cheering On ‘Net Neutrality’
What investments will not be made if government decree makes investment in an opaque communications future too costly? Let’s hope we don’t have to contemplate the question in the future.
Jared Bernstein’s ‘Money Printing’ Critics Are Ridiculous As Bernstein
The problem isn’t Bernstein, it’s economics itself. It’s a reminder that the PhDs who turned their noses up to Bernstein’s droolings are every bit the butt of the joke that he’s been the last few…
Warren Buffett’s $167B Mocks the Laughable ‘Money Multiplier’ Theory
Who are you going to believe, Warren Buffett and his $167 billion or the rabid critics of banks operating as banks, and who believe banks operating as banks are relentlessly multiplying away the…
A Review of John Mackey’s ‘The Whole Story’
No one chooses to be an entrepreneur, instead entrepreneurial activity is an expression of disdain for how things are done. If innovation were a choice, none would pursue it given the extremely low…
The Operation Warp Speed Story Worsens By the Day
The federal government should never have funded Operation Warp Speed, the 2020 central plan quarterbacked by the Trump administration to rush a coronavirus-vaccine to the people.
Masterpiece Cake Shop From Right As Texas Pols Attack Banks
When Masterpiece Cake Shop chose not to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding on moral grounds, conservatives rightly defended the right of a business owner to refuse the business. Puzzling now is that…
TikTok Without ByteDance Is Like Belichick Without Brady
The simple truth is that genius is rarely transferable, and the fact that it isn’t can almost certainly be found in TikTok’s resistance to a sale.
GOP Promises ‘Limited Government’ Via Big Government
“It became necessary to destroy the town in order to save it.” The previous quote, perhaps apocryphal, relates to a battle over Ben Tre in Vietnam. It comes to mind as ‘limited government’…
The Swagger of Freddie Mac Is Not Its Own. Keep It Out of 2nd Mortgages
Freddie Mac quietly seeks approval from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) to back second mortgages. If approval is granted, the U.S. economy will suffer.
The Theory of Global Warming Versus the Rhymes of Dr. Seuss
“How big is the sun? We just heard right this minute a million of our earths could all fit right in it.” Those words can be found in Dr. Seuss children’s book There’s No Place Like Space: All About…
A Lack of Savings Is the Surest Sign There’s No Retirement Crisis
Fewer dollars will stretch much further in the future at the same time that the interaction of old people with retirement will change profoundly. More and more will choose work. This truth can…