Warsh Will Soon Realize That Powell Was Never Vy. Powerful
The central bank is just not that important. We insult the U.S. economic engine when we pretend that it is. Continue reading on Forbes.
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Clear filtersThe Republican Aim Should Be To Keep California In California
In the recently launched California Post, gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton wrote that Californians suffer the worst results despite paying the highest taxes. Without disagreeing with the…
Artificial Intelligence Will Be the Greatest Job Creator Ever
As Nvidia’s Jensen Huang routinely points out, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is work. That’s why it will be the most powerful, growth boosting, job creator the world has ever known. It can’t be said…
The TikTok “Saga” Is About American Envy, Not National Security
“This saga was never about TikTok’s utility or popularity but its Chinese ownership and apparent links to the Chinese Communist Party.” That’s from a recent editorial in the Washington Post, and it’s…
Jason Furman Has a Plan To Make All of Us Very Tall
Money in no way alters reality. This truth seemingly eludes Harvard economist Jason Furman. Consider his assertion in the New York Times that the dollar at “multiyear lows” ultimately “could be good…
On the National Debt, Left and Right Have Become One
Government spending is excessively harmful precisely because it’s the central planning of precious goods, services and labor by the federal government. Conservatives and libertarians at one time…
If a Weak, “Trump Dollar” Is Inflationary, Then Biden’s Was Not
Why wasn’t Joe Biden afforded the same, market-based dollar analysis by the Journal’s editorial page when he was President? Continue reading on Forbes.
They’re Not Talking About What Makes Kevin Warsh Worrisome
There was nothing “financial” about the so-called “2008 financial crisis.” Markets quite simply ARE. They’re neither left nor right, nor are they biased toward one Party or another. They just tell…
A Tax Cut for ‘Working Families’ Does Nothing For Economic Growth
When did Republicans quit on supply side and go John Maynard Keynes on us? What can’t be said enough is that supply-side economics isn’t about fiddling with the tax rate to increase tax revenues by…
We’ll Never Retire For All the Reasons Elon Musk Thinks We May
Elon Musk predicts that with the proliferation of AI, including his Optimus robots, the people of tomorrow will not have to work if they choose not to. Thanks to the automation of so much of what was…
Jamie Dimon Helpfully Explains How All Legislation Should Be Crafted
Those who reduce the talks at the World Economic Forum (Davos) to bloviations evidently haven’t witnessed the last two speeches by Argentina president Javier Milei, or for that matter the commentary…
Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare Protect Us From Much Worse
Experts too easily forget that “government spending” is a benign way of describing central planning of precious resources. Which means it fails repeatedly. Rich as the U.S. presently is, we’re a…
Trump Has a Chance to Do What Reagan Wished He Had Done
A stable dollar would lift the global economy like nothing else, and would give the Trump presidency infinitely more prestige than a Nobel Peace Prize ever could… Continue reading on Forbes.
There’s Nothing Conservative About Telling People To “Get In Line”
There were “lines for everything” in the former Soviet Union. That’s what Hedrick Smith conveyed to rapt readers in his 1976 book, The Russians. As frustrated Americans endured long waits for…
Falling Prices Enable the Savings That Drive Progress
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos can’t realistically spend all the wealth they’ve created. That’s why both epitomize progress. It’s not just that they’ve transformed how we live, it’s that their inability to…
Australia’s Youth Are Way Too Smart for Australia’s Politicians
Australia’s young people are way too smart for Australia’s politicians. See the recent implementation of Australia’s “Social Media Minimum Age Act.” The Aussie law is meant to protect youths from the…
Nosebleed Housing Prices Aren’t Signaling What the Experts Think
“The U.S. must build, baby.” The latter is the subhead to a recent opinion piece published at the right-of-center Manhattan Institute. Supposedly the easy answer to housing affordability is “build…
Keynes Doesn’t Gain Legitimacy During Downturns
The worst thing for a country’s economy is for legislators to borrow money for deficit spending during economic downturns. Too bad no one agrees, including those perhaps pre-disposed to agree. For…
With Energy, Tomorrow Is Often Another Country
The U.S. oil sector had its worst stretch under Ronald Reagan. So substantially did prices fall during his presidency that even his Vice President (George H.W. Bush) made the rather puzzling…
Why Is Trump the Only Villain In Chair Powell’s Investigation?
Forgotten by PhD types eager to elevate their economic intelligence by denigrating Trump’s is that frequently they reveal their own limitations while explaining Trump’s… Continue reading on Forbes.
America’s Greatest Companies Tell Us the Kids Are Alright
“You don’t want to send your son there because he’ll become a communist, he’ll become a drug addict.” That’s the modern consensus about elite colleges and universities, so why pay for modern…
Data Center Potential Will Reveal Itself Unexpectedly Over Many Decades
Cable television visionary John Malone could have owned a substantial portion of AOL before it was AOL. Where it perhaps becomes more ironic is that it was Malone’s TCI that was laying the cable…
If We Don’t Want the Chinese To ‘Lap’ Us, Let Them Sell To Us
There are already flying taxis in China. There’s drone delivery of meals too. About the leaps taking place in China, some will say we need to catch up. Others will say that in addition to catching…
Mitigating the Energy Uncertainty That Saps Our Economic Health
One of Joe Biden’s biggest fibs received the least amount of attention. Back when he was president, and amid notably high gasoline prices, Biden talked of how when he was young, the price at the pump…