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Writing by John Tamny and Parkview contributors, from the latest commentary to the collected archive.
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Clear filtersDebt is a sign of progress. It’s a market signal about growing future earnings for families and businesses. Despite this, politicians continue to argue the opposite. Looking for ways to demagogue the…
100% percent of any Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) savings should be returned to taxpayers. This shouldn’t even be a debate, but sadly it will be since neither side of the ideological…
The U.S. has a massive budget and eye-popping debt precisely because Congress annually fleeces the rich. To believe otherwise is to believe in Santa Claus, ferociously dumb markets, or both. What’s…
Back in March of 2020, former Federal Reserve Board member Kevin Warsh penned an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal (“Let the Fed Administer an Antiviral Shot”) calling for the Federal Reserve…
Government spending never enhances economic growth precisely because governments only have money to spend insofar as they have taxable access to private economic activity. In other words, government…
December 31, 2024. I am in the middle of a 4 day fast (long story). Tomorrow, my reward will be to eat a bowl of black-eyed peas accompanied by stewed tomatoes and a hunk of cornbread.…
While politicians frequently and incorrectly demagogue trade as harmful, the enterprising in the proverbial arena have long been looking for ways to bring people closer together not just so that they…
For the longest time banks have relied on the law to protect the private property of their account holders. Ironically, those same banks increasingly find themselves in the unenviable position of…
Parker Field was an old wooden baseball stadium in Richmond. We were the # 1 farm team for the Yankees and then the Braves. The place had character. When I was 16, my brother Brick and Andy…
We have massive debt because Treasury collects way too much tax revenue, and that’s because the American rich are wildly overtaxed.
In Rampell’s words, policymakers responding to a contraction of their own making “swung into action with a swiftness and single-mindedness they hadn’t exhibited in prior downturns.” Keynesianism just…
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.
Governments can only centrally plan the direction of resources insofar as they’ve taken them from us first, and they can only offer tax incentives insofar as they’ve overtaxed us first. The economic…
The implied point in the Post headline was that government spending makes most sense when the economy is weak, a supposition suggesting that central planning of resource allocation is most needed…
Dennis came to work for one of my companies in 1994. I owned a chain of fried chicken and biscuit restaurants and needed someone to run them. I sure as hell didn’t know how to. Dennis had worked for…
