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Writing by John Tamny and Parkview contributors, from the latest commentary to the collected archive.
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Clear filters“Productive labor may render a nation poorer, if the wealth it produces – that is, the increase it makes in the stock of useful or agreeable things – be of a kind not immediately wanted.” – John…
President Donald Trump renewed his commitment to seeing America win the AI race at his recent summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The Trump administration has rejected the Biden approach of…
Some overestimate the government’s ability to develop novel solutions to challenging problems. NASA’s spacefaring efforts were eventually surpassed by SpaceX, which has maintained a 100% safety…
“The WBD Deal Puts Hollywood, and Democracy, at Risk.” That was the headline for an opinion piece written by Jane Fonda last December. Fonda feared Neflix’s acquisition of Warner Brothers Discovery…
FTT coins, the same coins that entitled owners to a third of FTX’s annual profits, initially fetched roughly .5 cents per. Wrapped in the latter, along with the recent private valuation of Anthropic…
No individual or nation need ever worry about the supply of oil or Artificial Intelligence (AI). The latter holds true whether both are sourced across the street or on the other side of the world. …
The Republican-led House Energy and Commerce Committee recently advanced legislation enforcing new age verification requirements that would impact app store users of all ages. In a strange twist on…
Netflix won by “losing” the bidding war for Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD). The victory can be found in contemplating what Netflix was going to get in return for its purchase of WBD. It wasn’t an…
A recent above the fold, front-page headline at the New York Times asserted that “Reliance on Taiwan Chips Endangers U.S. Economy.” The article’s subhead added that “Big Tech Has Done Little to Heed…
Money buys nothing. It’s always production for production. Continue reading on Forbes.
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…
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…
Conservatives need to relax. See their ranting about Netflix’s proposed purchase of Warner Brothers Discovery (WBD). Podcaster Benny Johnson described the possible deal as “the most dangerous media…
Blockbuster could have had Netflix for south of $100 million. Twice. It’s worth thinking about in consideration of Netflix’s present-day market cap of $437 billion. Of much greater importance, it’s…
“Bob and I had no idea of any of the potential back then.” Those are the words of cable television visionary John Malone in his recently released memoir, Born To Be Wired. Malone was writing about…
So much that we see as expensive in the present will be incredibly cheap in the future. There are so many examples of this, so many past examples that so many readers know well (remember…
Since wireless telephony was only in its infancy by the 1980s, and since broad internet usage was realistically decades away, nearly all work took place at a physical location. “Chained to the desk”…
With Amazon, it was never about the books. No doubt Amazon began as an online bookseller, but what made its stock attractive through years of losses is what books represented. If Amazon could…
“It’s not about driving down the cost of labor.” Those are the words of Lorenzo Pautasso, general manager of RobCo’s U.S. office. Pautasso conveyed them to Farah Stockman of the New York Times. He…
How to get rich? The single best way is to live a long time, ideally working much of that time while amassing savings that compound, and compound some more. The vast majority of Warren Buffett’s…
It’s so easily forgotten that people aren’t a cost. They’re an input, always and everywhere, and this truth won’t lose any validity as robots proliferate. Quite the opposite. Which is why it’s useful…
What an exciting time to be alive, especially for those younger than myself. An insightful article in Fortune, “Will AI ever cure cancer? The multibillion-dollar race to bring the first AI-discovered…
The more that kids can cheat thanks to AI advances, the better education will become. Yes, you read that right. No need to read it again. AI-enabled cheating on homework, term papers and tests will…
House Bill 186, also known as the “Act relating to prohibiting use of social media platforms by children,” is a deeply flawed piece of legislation that deserves strong opposition. While its intent to…
