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Clear filtersIt’s accepted wisdom in San Francisco that the path to successfully purchasing an apartment is an opening bid of 50% over asking price. It’s worth remembering as the right-leaning California Post…
Implied in the silence is what’s true, that the Fed isn’t necessary… Continue reading on Forbes.
The film industry wasn’t glamorous in the early days. That’s what’s conveyed at Hollywoodland: Jewish Founders and the Making of a Movie Capital, an exhibit featured at the Academy Museum of Motion…
“These kids today” is as old as the United States. And that’s bullish. It’s something to keep in mind as Hoover Institution senior fellow and Global Liberty Institute co-founder Scott Atlas becomes…
Social Security was a monstrous mistake. That’s paradoxically why it must not be “reformed.” Reform would unleash a spending frenzy from Congress on a series of small mistakes that have the potential…
Americans consume “Russian oil.” What you’ve just read isn’t a sign of corruption stateside, rather it’s a signal of basic economics. Production begets imports from around the world always, and from…
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a fraud. Centrally planned, politicized consumption of precious wealth (government spending) adds to the number, while massive inflows of global wealth meant to profit…
Markets have no ideology. They simply are. Gold simply is. It doesn’t respond, rather it tells us about other things… Continue reading on Forbes.
Harvard is thriving. So are Stanford and Princeton. See the tuition charged by all three: at Harvard it’s $59,000, at Princeton it’s $65,000, and it’s $67,000 at Stanford. Here’s the question, or…
Soaring wealth inequality is the surest sign of falling prices. You can’t have the latter without the former. Look at the richest Americans, then and now. John D. Rockefeller mass produced kerosene…
There’s no military strength without economic strength. Since governments produce nothing, their capacity to fund militaries a little or a lot is an effect of taxable access to prosperity. It’s…
In his defense, Vivek Ramaswamy most likely didn’t write last week’s Wall Street Journal opinion piece. Still, if the advisers of his opponent for governor of Ohio (Amy Acton) grasp simple economics,…
Spending cuts will not shrink the federal government. When politicians promise the opposite, they’re not telling the truth. “We must stop measuring compassion by the amount of money the government…
Conservatives rightly mock the left for its endless alarmism about “global warming.” Whether the latter is a threat or not, the very notion that we humans can mitigate the warming power of a sun that…
The scholarly class must cease their pretense about the impossibility of “Fed independence.” They want no such thing… Continue reading on Forbes.
In 1948 South Korea had per capita income of $48, a level of earnings that placed its economics below those of sub-Saharan African countries. At the time one U.S. official concluded that “Korea can…
“Don’t count on it.” That’s what Joanne Lipman recently wrote at the New York Times, in a piece titled “The Elusive Promise of the Four-Day Workweek.” Lipman’s pessimism about the four-day workweek…
If education is so important to the development and future prosperity of young people, why doesn’t the latter reflect in compensation for teachers? It’s a question worth asking as conservatives…
Data centers, and the $1 trillion+ that is being invested in their creation, are “causing” overall weakness in the U.S. economy. That’s according to former Biden White House economic official,…
Elon Musk’s enormous wealth will soon enough appear small. For evidence, see a popular chart listing the looming federal tax bills for multi-billionaires in the U.S. Musk will apparently be assessed…
The Fed couldn’t fight what economists incorrectly deem inflation even if it wanted to… Continue reading on Forbes.
The proposed merger of Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern is about life and death. Yes, you read that right. Which requires a brief digression. Specifically, to Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump…
The people on the Mayflower were lower middle class, and largely British. Which means they were lower middle-class arrivals from a country that was very poor. As Niall Ferguson wrote in his 2004 book…
“Please God, give me one more oil boom. This time I promise not to piss it away.” It was a popular bumper sticker in Texas in the 1980s. It’s worth remembering as experts who’ve never built houses,…
