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Clear filtersThe worst arguments against the lockdowns inspired by the coronavirus were medical and statistical. To see why, it’s worth remembering that as humans we’ve evolved to protect ourselves from death and…
In their ongoing defense of the indefensible, conservatives defend threats by the political class to ban TikTok with weak-kneed arguments that TikTok could avoid the ban if they would just sell to…
It’s popular among the conspiracy-minded and central bank-obsessed (frequently the two go together) to suggest that governments establish central banks to buy their debt. The very notion is…
Good and bad decisions come to mind as certain colleges and universities start to abolish “legacy admissions.” The University of Virginia is the latest school to do it. And that’s too bad.
How unfortunate if, in concert with the arrival of scores of Californians each day, Texas lawmakers begin to legislate in ways that caused more than a few of those arrivals from California to leave…
Vladimir Lenin famously asserted that the “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Some conservatives are hiding behind Lenin’s quip to justify their latest big,…
For Bill Ackman to suggest that rising energy costs could “cause inflation to rise” is for the investor to flip causation. It’s the equivalent of the assertion that suntans cause the sun.
Where’s the outrage over the remarkably sad fact that the U.S. political class is coming for our freedom yet again? How dare they after the immense damage they caused four years ago this month?
There was a time when it was accepted wisdom at the Hoover Institution that market interventions slowed economic output. How things change.
The minute anyone sets foot in the U.S. their value automatically rises thanks to massive investment directed at production processes here.
Just as the U.S. economy collapsed when panicky politicians decided to fight a virus with lockdowns, so did China’s where abject stupidity was allowed to last even longer. The answer in China is the…
Not just anyone can make TikTok what it’s become, and of course what it’s become is deafening evidence that it’s not controlled by the CCP as is.
It’s crucial that the CFPB’s rule be revisited very quickly. Meant to protect borrowers, what it will really do is make it much less likely that would-be borrowers will have access to credit at all.
U.S. Steel’s shareholders should be the only ones deciding whether or not to sell to Nippon. The problem is the U.S. political class’s romantic view of what’s prosaic
As always, rising prices can’t cause inflation any more than falling prices can cause deflation. Both are currency phenomena born of currency instability either in the direction of weakness or…
The normally excellent Lance Morrow is the latest to try and tie greater historical meaning to education at Groton, Yale and Harvard. In his case, he’s trying to connect the latter to the Vietnam…
In reality, one Jose Antoio Ibarra is being charged with committing an incredibly despicable act. Immigrants shouldn’t own his sickness any more than gun owners should own the acts of mass shooters.…
As poets write China’s economic obituary, actual U.S. businesses are rapidly expanding in China. Whom are you going to trust?
Barr’s fear of Apple shouldn’t surprise us, while at the same time reminding us just how detached his analysis is from market realities. No, Apple does not violate antitrust law.
Reagan tax cuts did cause deficits, but not for the reasons expressed by Democrats, Republicans, and supply siders.
Capital One and Discover aren’t merging to dominate the present, rather they’re combining in an effort to discover an always opaque future.
University of Exeter professor Marc-William Palen’s Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World, is out. What a great book. While left wingers in the 19th century didn’t invent the natural…
As always, the internet is forever. Consider that with the quote that leads today’s write-up by oh-so eminent and intelligent economist Lawrence Summers. In 2022, he was more than adamant that years…
While conservatives worry endlessly about lefty academics and pundits like them in the media, they’ve arguably taken their eyes off of the proverbial ball.
