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Clear filtersIn 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.”
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.
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…
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…
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 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.
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…
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.
“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’…
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.
“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…
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…
Bernanke’s belief that the Fed’s efforts to foster fake Treasury yields, fake equity and corporate bond prices, more housing consumption, and a weaker dollar are remarkable not just for how much his…
I like the stories about how media used to be. Calvin Trillin has been at it since the 1950s, which means his book, ‘The Lede’, is full of old columns by him remembering the massive expense accounts…
Mark Helprin tells Barton Swaim that Russia, China and Iran are making enormous strides in South America, “’and we can’t allow them to do that. If South America goes, we’re done.’” Really? How?
What the CFPB plainly misses is that a lack of information is costly, and it is to borrower and lender, credit card holder and issuer, and certainly for renter and landlord alike.
It’s a waste of words to say that every business must make money in order to remain in business. Banks are no different.
The problem for white collar workers and “intelligentsia” is not AI, but that its genius isn’t being felt fast enough.
To say that many prices were higher in the aftermath of a Key Bridge-equivalent collapse on a global scale in 2020 insults statement of the obvious. Of course prices were and are higher, and of…
There’s always lots of disagreement about immigration, and much less about migration. Many would agree that at least historically, New York was the final test for ambitious Americans.
What these substantial investments signal is that while their critics view Meta, Google and Microsoft as monopolies, they plainly don’t feel that way.
Joseph Epstein has been writing really great books and columns for years, including one on gambling in the Wall Street Journal last week. He’s always entertaining, and his autobiography is no…
Just leave businesses alone. Harassing them doesn’t suddenly take on noble qualities when it’s Republicans doing the harassing.
Deese naturally makes the laughable claim that Chinese production is not about demand, and that its people are yet again producing too much.
