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Clear filters“Sorority consultant” is a profession, and a well-paid one at that. With achieving the “right” bid increasingly a must thing for a growing number of females born to parents with somewhat limitless…
“If you could fog a mirror, you could get into the University of Florida.” That’s how a longtime Floridian described the admissions’ process of old. How things have changed. As a recent Wall Street…
Why is Netflix founder Reed Hastings so rich? It’s a clown question, right? Everyone knows why he’s worth billions, and it’s because he founded a company that is worth over $300 billion. Except that…
“In our political age of envy, the press and Democrats are preoccupied by Elon Musk’s otherworldly wealth. But he has enriched the country by building a remarkable company.” That was from an…
As is well known, SpaceX floated its shares last week. Elon Musk is the world’s first, but surely not last, trillionaire. Let’s refer to Musk as the Frederic Bastiat “seen.” From there, let’s pivot…
With it’s fixed supply, the cryptocurrency indicts monetarist and Austrian theory like nothing else… Continue reading on Forbes.
Milton Friedman was sometimes wrong. Revered by right and many on the left, a look back reveals thoughts and actions that were sometimes puzzling. Take the work Friedman did at the U.S. Treasury…
“I have come to the conclusion that an economic catastrophe must happen before a majority of my colleagues will get serious about curbing out of control government spending.” That’s then Rep. Thomas…
There’s no looming “insolvency” for Social Security. Not in 2032, 2052, or 2102. It’s all politics, from both sides. How we know can be found in the fact that there was never a Social Security “lock…
Jennifer Aniston is single. But as a 2015 write-up from here pointed out, Aniston’s status was a choice as opposed to a situation that she couldn’t escape. Realistically, millions and perhaps…
Matthew Lynn writes that a “financial castrophe” is in our future. He claims it’s due to the national debt. Lynn’s analysis implies that markets are quite stupid. Misunderstanding and non sequitur…
Vain political attempts to place a wall around U.S. genius wouldn’t be necessary even if they worked… Continue reading on Forbes.
Production is always matched with credible exchange media. One presumes the other… Continue reading on Forbes.
Immigrants will do work that Americans won’t. That’s what defenders and critics of immigration say. Which means even defenders miss what is arguably the bigger, more pertinent positive about…
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Generation Z will be the richest, most fortunate generation in the history of the richest, most fortunate nation in the world, the U.S. That is, until the generation that follows Gen Z reaches…
In his 2008 book The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson observed that the English speaking peoples are obsessed with housing, and that “No other fact of financial life has such a hold on the popular…
“Productive labor may render a nation poorer, if the wealth it produces – that is, the increase it makes in the stock of useful or agreeable things – be of a kind not immediately wanted.” – John…
How dangerous for the Senators to enter what’s prosperous with a one-size-fits-all solution crafted by the most disliked legislative body in America… Continue reading on Forbes.
Since human interaction with computers and all manner of other devices is a frontier-free concept, there’s no way to ever credibly decree “dominance.” Continue reading on Forbes.
Members of Gen Z won’t just benefit from the genius of artificial intelligence (AI) throughout their careers, they’ll also benefit from a federal government thankfully hamstrung by past spending…
The Fed is the proverbial potted plant, not an enabler… Continue reading on Forbes.
People power economic growth, but declining global birth rates are a bullish phenomenon. Yes, both statements are true. If declining birth rates foretold economic decline as Washington Post columnist…
The great Warren Brookes (1928-1991) joked in The Economy In Mind about the return of an economist from overseas, and a quip from a U.S. Passport official about perhaps not letting him back into the…
