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Writing by John Tamny and Parkview contributors, from the latest commentary to the collected archive.
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Clear filtersAs index funds rise in prominence, so grows the belief that they’ll use the size of their buying to influence companies in politicized fashion. Except if they did as the critics imagine, they…
Former budget director Mick Mulvaney is the latest, but surely not the last to say that inflation is “too much money chasing too few goods.”
Fed watchers and economists write about and watch the Fed with breathy intensity. Can it bring prices down? No, it can’t.
The future will more and more be defined by feverish work that enables us to keep on working. Tiger Woods is an exciting look into this future.
Implicit in the right’s deep fear about low birthrates is that humans are static creatures in terms of capability such that fewer babies being born will reveal itself in greatly reduced economic…
Critics of Social Security, and there’s much to criticize, use the lack of a “lock box” or actual “trust fund” to make their emotional cases for the program’s looming insolvency, reduced benefits, or…
The FTC’s lawsuit runs at cross purposes with its stated intent of fostering competition. If the FTC really is spooked by Meta’s market power and size, it should get out of the way.
Gold sits at all-time highs in dollars. What that signals is that the dollar’s value against the constant that is gold is at all-time lows.
We argue that freedom for Americans to move as they wish through the 50 states is the biggest U.S. prosperity story, only for housing to restrain the mobility.
As opposed to AI destroying it, its allegedly broad usage more realistically indicates that higher education has destroyed itself.
Considering India in terms of the report from 2017, readers can happily bank on it that the number of Indians living without indoor or outdoor plumbing no longer reflects the number that prevailed…
Regardless of the ideological lean of governments, actions by them are not informed by the marketplace. And since they’re not, they negatively impact the people and businesses within their states…
Americans should be free to patronize any social media site they want for political information and thought, the empirical truth is that Americans in general, and young Americans in particular, don’t…
While Rampell wants her readers to believe Trump committed fraud vis-of-vis banks, everything about her column indicates the opposite.
Inflation is a policy choice of governments that long predates central banks that the various economic religions have oddly happened on as the creator and fix for inflation.
What’s going to fascinate about the gradual institutionalization of the 4-day week is that it realistically foretells a 7-day workweek, the productive 4-day worker putting in longer hours than ever,…
Mick Mulvaney is disappointed with “everybody who gets elected” because they’re not like – you guessed it – Mick Mulvaney.
The exciting features of the school Jack would like to build are many more than the ones mentioned in this write-up. They all raise questions having to do with how to build a school that, at least…
A disturbingly paranoid U.S. political class demands that Beijing-based TikTok owner ByteDance sell TikTok to a U.S. buyer or face a ban.
Massie must train his focus on the here and now. Because that’s the crisis. What companies and jobs aren’t being created, what technological and health advances aren’t being funded, and what takings…
How did inflation become so associated with central banks? Inflation is as old as government-currency issuance is, so to make inflation a central bank story is a bit of a non sequitur. Governments…
Parents will embrace a change that technology will make simple. Kids will finally get to sleep in, and because they’ll be able to sleep in, mornings will be much less of a nightmare. Isn’t “Big Tech”…
Arguably the worst arguments made in favor of a forced sale of TikTok have to do with national security. Missed by pundits and politicians is that trade is the best protection of all for countries…
As always, all decisions are business decisions. College football has made a bad one, and soon enough we’ll be wondering who plays for teams we don’t watch, if at all, until late December or early…
