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Clear filtersI’ll always believe that the secret to Donald Trump’s success wasn’t his policy rhetoric, but his rhetorical style. That’s why Bret Stephens’s case for Donald Trump (Stephens can’t stand Trump) in…
If Jeff Bezos had been born in 1864 instead of 1964, no doubt he would have made his mark, but his genius would have touched exponentially fewer people.
While it’s accepted wisdom among economists that Arthur Burns authored the 1970s inflationary breakout, he did no such thing.
As always, the kids are alright, so much so that that they’ll live long enough and have the time and means enough to eventually complain about what Harvard is teaching future generations.
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment is very sad, frequently hard to understand, but ultimately very difficult to put down.
No movie critic, I just like going to the movies. American Fiction is a very funny movie about a politically correct college professor’s frustration with what he refers to as “delicate” students,…
Former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels is the latest, but surely not the last to predict crisis of the economic kind. You could fill more Rose Bowls than you have fingers with all the pundits who’ve…
Love or hate immigration, it’s probably no reach to assume that most would agree those at the border are coming from much, much worse. Americans are incredibly lucky, and to much of the rest of the…
Former Fed official Claudia Sahm believes a tight Fed “could still ruin” what she imagines could be a soft landing.
If the problem with Harvard is that it’s left wing, isn’t the better strategy to allow Harvard to continually weaken itself with people like Gay in charge?
Oil is the most important commodity in the world, by far, and without it life as we know it would be defined by grinding poverty for the vast majority of the world in concert with primitive living…
Much more capable and wiser financial minds than my own feel Sam Bankman-Fried is a fraud and a crook.
Increasingly work is joy, and a reflection of unique intelligence. People are saving less because they don’t in any way regard 65 as the endpoint of work.
We didn’t even have to get to 2024 for economists to start speculating on what the Fed might do to boost or harm the re-election chances of the incumbent president through rate cuts, or a lack of…
Abolish federal student loans ASAP. Government should not be inserting itself into education. Just don’t expect tuition to decline.
We have massive debt because Treasury collects way too much tax revenue, and that’s because the American rich are wildly overtaxed.
No doubt prices for many goods are higher post-Covid lockdowns, but Cochrane has mistaken the culprit.
Policy types can’t stand anarchy, and that’s a problem for progress. How about we – for once – just give anarchy a chance?
Don’t call what’s happening in Texas functional collapse. This is the always and everywhere of government planning.
The kids are alright. And for the adults who still disagree, never forget that the same was said about your generation
The Fed is full of PhDs bereft of the simple knowledge required to gauge economic health. It’s held down by a near total lack of originality.
That corporations continue to court college students so assiduously is a market signal that neither the campuses nor their students are as lost as alarmists want to believe.
The bigger the crack-up the better, because the big errors signal enormous information-creation that will bring us closer to the kind of knowledge that represents enormous progress and wealth.
Deficit hawks continue to make the debt the story, which means they’re distracted and they’re distracting their flock. $33 trillion in debt isn’t the problem as evidenced by how much investors line…
