The Suspicious Federalization of App Downloads for Teens
What will slow the arrival of tomorrow is the federalization of downloads. This law shouldn’t pass.
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Clear filtersWho Knows Business Better? Pundits, or Those In Business?
American CEOs overseeing a large and growing China presence know exponentially more about the on-the-ground reality in the country than do their critics.
Contra the Experts, ‘Energy Dependence’ Doesn’t Shrink ‘National Wealth’
Imagine how staggeringly poor we would be absent all the mechanization and subsequent productive leaps born of oil’s discovery as a crucial source of fuel.
There’s a Singular Fix for Inflation, and It’s All About Standards
Without standards, money loses value not because it’s circulating too much, but because it circulates in lesser and lesser amounts. The theories are all wrong. To erase inflation, adopt standards.…
The Bigger Meaning of Aaron Rodgers’s Potential Return In 2023
This is the real crisis. It’s no reach to say that absent massive government consumption all of these decades, Rodgers would already be playing again.
The Well Overdone Conceit of ‘Rare Earth’ Alarmists
There’s nothing to all the handwringing about China and “rare earths” despite what economically confused media members and politicians believe.
Do Conservatives Support Taxpayers, or Do They Support Taxpayers?
That the rich account for the vast majority of federal revenues is a logical and empirical reality. It’s a sad reality too, and it’s one that is felt most by those not rich.
As Regulators Attack Banks, ‘Systemic Risk’ Finds a New Address
For the Fed to require banks to expand their capital cushions in the aftermath of SVB is the equivalent of Andy Reid telling Patrick Mahomes to take laps since Jets quarterback Zach Wilson threw an…
There’s Only One Fix for Inflation: It Has Nothing to Do With the Fed
If the goal is to end inflation, there’s a simple answer. It has nothing to do with the Fed. And never has.
The ‘Fraud’ Charges Against Trump Bring New Meaning to Bogus
Love or hate Donald Trump, the fraud charges against him are hard to take seriously. The very notion that he could trick banks in better lending terms by faking the valuation of his assets is too…
Seeking to Land Punches on Amazon, the FTC Is Punching Itself
Walmart can offer ‘Everyday Low Prices’ because it makes up in bulk sales for lower prices charged per unit. This is worth remembering with the FTC’s mindless attacks on Amazon.
The Looming, and Intensely Profound Impact of AI on Retirement
The surest sign of a booming economy is falling prices, and the marriage of man with thinking/doing machines is set to bring on the cheapest of “Cheap Revolutions.” Retirees will live grandly, and at…
There’s No Growth-Inflation Link, and There Never Has Been
GDP growth and rates of unemployment would never be the reason to question the Phillips Curve. Simple logic indicates that there’s no link between growth and inflation, and there never has been.
The GOP Could Have Dismissed 4.9% GDP Growth, But Instead Owns It
Few things are more fundamental to economic understanding than the basic truth that government has no resources.
Banks Deserve – and Need – Much Better Than Their Media Coverage
Sternberg fears “alchemy” blowing up in the faces of bank executives, but the more realistic truth is that there’s not enough.
Why Are Texas Republicans Attacking Banks In Texas?
Why would Texas politicians, and Texas Republicans in particular, risk their hard-won pro-business brand for political posturing that vandalizes basic economics?
The Republicans Were Much, Much Better When They Were the Party of the Rich
Bringing it back to the Republicans and the right, the rich get that way by doing remarkable things that make the U.S. the envy of the world. The rich are brilliant. Why would Republicans and the…
America’s Economic Pundits Don’t Deserve the U.S. Economy
Translated for Foroohar, worker productivity is a magnet for the very investment that pushes wages upward. All of this is and so much more is lost on Foroohar. America’s economy deserves better.
The Mindlessness of the FTC’s Amazon Lawsuit Can Be Found In ‘Eras’
That Amazon would place all sorts of demands on its third-party vendors is logical, and once again obvious. Lina Khan may know she has no case, but if she doesn’t, she could find it through the Eras…
Google Is Searching For the Future As William Barr Searches for Fotomat
Barr’s Google attack was contradictory, which is a waste of words. Any argument suggesting impregnable monopoly is by its very description contradictory. Worse for GOP is that Barr bragged that the…
What Happens When Monetarist Central-Planning Marries Santa Keynes
Keynesian theory says governments can grow the economy with spending, but that too much government spending causes inflation. Monetarism, a Keynesian variant, claims that increases in so-called…
‘Nepo Baby’ Insults Gwyneth Paltrow, Reveals Her Critics As Spoiled
One of the more obnoxiously obtuse narratives making the rounds today is the one about “nepo babies.”
Government Spending Is An Affect of Growth, Never An Instigator
Here’s the why behind The Parkview Institute. The goal will be to optimistically correct all the misunderstanding that pollutes the opinion pieces of the dominant ideologies.
With Export Controls Gina Raimondo Vandalizes Logic, & U.S. Companies
Wrapping its thoughtless actions in “national security” sanctimony, the Biden administration will weaken a U.S. always and everywhere made stronger by imports, all the while reducing the cost of war…