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Writing by John Tamny and Parkview contributors, from the latest commentary to the collected archive.
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Clear filtersDoctors still exist, but technology has happily freed them from a business model of old that allowed them to see and treat a tiny fraction of the individuals they could and will be able to treat in…
The erasure of work won’t put mean we’re not working, but it will mean we’re working in ways that maximize our ability to showcase our unique skills and intelligence.
Consumption is once again a consequence of reducing the tax burden on those (the rich) most penalized by taxes. No serious supply-sider would disagree with what’s just been said, which is why it’s…
Janet Yellen asserted that “if we do not respond strategically and in a united way” to “China’s industrial policy,” the “viability of businesses in both our countries and around the world could be at…
Put another way, the Fed’s imposition of price ceilings on debit cards will be felt most uncomfortably by those with the most limited access to banking and its various services.
Watch as tomorrow’s retirees are won over not with entitlements, but with political competition to reduce taxes on retirement withdrawals in concert with plans to delay the withdrawal age to well…
Lopez is the embodiment of the major risks Live Nation took to get where it is, and how perilous its status will always be given the massive uncertainty (remember Tower Records, Friday Night Videos,…
Talmon Joseph Smith and Jordyn Holman of the New York Times recently reported that “Over the past year, a series of indignant McDonald’s customers took to social media and posted receipts of orders…
Markets are great, but it’s hard to see how the TXSE would be all that different thanks to so much in the way of federal rulemaking.
Morrow’s book is another very entertaining look back at how things used to be in media. It’s a great read, and that’s why at 180 pages it’s too short. The book is titled “The Noise of Typewriters.”
Former attorney general William Barr is at it again with his overnight conversion to “monopoly” critic. He claims that if “allowed to dominate AI,” Microsoft, Google and Amazon “could reinforce and…
Banks are presently being asked to provide high-level service to customers in return for nothing. Sorry, it’s not going to work.
Live Nation’s reward for risking everything on an uncertain tomorrow is a lawsuit from a federal government eager to tear it town.
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…
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…
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.
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?
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
