Donald’s Plan To Run the Fed Shames Trump and His Critics
Trump’s delusions, and the gnashing of the teeth of his critics, are yet another reminder that the Fed’s powers over interest rates are vastly overstated.
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Clear filtersNo, Inflation Is Most Certainly Not Rising Prices
Inflation is yet again a decline in the value of the unit of measure, a decline that can result in higher consumer prices.
A Case Against Home Ownership
Our aim is to convince Americans to think harder about home ownership as the endgame, its frequently unspoken opportunity costs, and how much ownership of property encumbers our pursuit of…
Confused Critics Circle Amazon For Trying to Discover the Future
If the Seattle giant is unequal to the future, this will be revealed in the marketplace. For now, how foolhardy for media members to harass Amazon’s present efforts to discover the future.
Marco Rubio’s Fear of An App Is a Much Bigger Threat Than the App
Beyond the flamboyant absurdity of the charges being lobbed at TikTok, it should be stressed over and over again that per Reagan, the taking of freedom by ankle biters like Rubio is an exponentially…
No, There’s No Growth In the Funding of Wars
In his 2006 book Who Really Cares, Arthur Brooks wrote of how the late Robert Byrd’s generosity with the money of others could be found all over the state of West Virginia. There was the Robert C.…
Want Unfairness On the Job? Let the FTC Blanket Ban Non-Competes
A a non-compete clause ban would eviscerate roughly 1/5th of employment agreements in the U.S., and as evidenced by the number, it would increase the cost of hiring for some employers to the…
To Focus On Interest Paid On the Federal Debt Is To Completely Miss the Point
A government that is paying a billion dollars in interest per day is plainly taking in way too much tax revenue, thus its ability to run up so much debt in the first place.
Opposite Monetarists, Neo-Austrians and Keynesians, Wealth Isn’t Money
Money in circulation is an exacting market phenomenon, opposite Monetarists, Neo-Austrians and Keynesians, and it is because goods, services and labor always and everywhere buy goods, services, and…
We Lose Freedom Because Parents Won’t Do Their Jobs
What’s not acceptable is that we must all lose our freedom because parents won’t, or aren’t doing their jobs. Of course, to even suggest do-nothing parents are the problem vis-à-vis TikTok presumes…
Supply Siders Close To Trump Need To Fix His Dollar Confusion
It used to be broadly understood that inflation was currency devaluation, not a politicized concept that warring ideologies could redefine on the fly. They’ve done exactly this in recent years by…
Yet Another Attempt To Make Sense of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s ‘The Brothers Karamazov’
As always, what’s the point of trying to get through the long Russian novels without writing out the alleged insights? The Brothers Karamazov was much more difficult to follow than Crime and…
If Index Funds Were Politically Motivated, They Wouldn’t Be Index Funds
As 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…
No, Inflation Is Not ‘Too Much Money Chasing Too Few Goods’
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.”
What On Earth Do Fed Rate Hikes Have To Do With Lower Prices?
Fed watchers and economists write about and watch the Fed with breathy intensity. Can it bring prices down? No, it can’t.
As You Watch Tiger Woods Work, You’re Seeing the Future of Work
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.
How Did the Deep-In-Thought Ever Embrace Low-Birthrate Alarmism?
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…
Neither Adults Nor Young Adults Need Fear Social Security’s ‘Insolvency’
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 Antitrust Case Against Meta Is Laughably Weak
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 Is Speaking Very Loudly Now, Is Anyone Listening?
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.
The Realtors Still Need Market Reform: WSJ Weekend Interview
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.
AI Cheating’ Isn’t Destroying Higher Ed, It’s Exposing Its Demerits
As opposed to AI destroying it, its allegedly broad usage more realistically indicates that higher education has destroyed itself.
Rising Inequality In India Signals Soaring Living Standards
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…
No One Spends the Money of Others Like They Do Their Own
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…