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Writing by John Tamny and Parkview contributors, from the latest commentary to the collected archive.
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Clear filtersThe 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…
Vain political attempts to place a wall around U.S. genius wouldn’t be necessary even if they worked… Continue reading on Forbes.
“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…
Since human interaction with computers and all manner of other devices is a frontier-free concept, there’s no way to ever credibly decree “dominance.” Continue reading on Forbes.
Ronald Reagan’s father lost his job on Christmas Eve. It’s a reminder of how different things used to be. Since life was so much more uncertain over 100 years ago for the average American, it’s no…
A verdict based on the most narrow definition of the market… Continue reading on Forbes.
The launch of Fox News remains one of the great free market stories of modern times. While conservatives had long expressed frustration with the left-wing bias that defined traditional media, Fox…
Cigarettes were referred to as “coffin nails” as early as 1906. That’s what George Will writes at the Washington Post. Will adds that the U.S. Surgeon General didn’t designate smoking as a possible…
The Fed can’t suffocate credit booms, nor can it instigate them. Continue reading on Forbes.
The U.S. economy would be a fraction of its incredibly vibrant self if investors truly keyed on “quarterly earnings.” Amazon and Google continue to show us why. For background, in the 1970s the cable…
“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…
“While the music industry continues to get buffeted by technological change – here comes the AI wave, next.” That’s how media visionary John Malone describes the relentlessly changing circumstances…
Call it a win for common sense, but Meta recently emerged victorious in its antitrust case against the Federal Trade Commission. The U.S. District Court affirmed what the reasonable already knew:…
In his recently released memoir, Born To Be Wired, John Malone writes of attending the 1979 Western Show out in Anaheim, CA. What the TCI CEO witnessed fascinated him, but also terrified him. It was…
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…
The Department of Transportation’s latest move to hand Google a major technology contract — coming on the heels of its “OneGov” initiative — shows Washington still hasn’t learned one of its most…
“Amazon made it easy to sign up for Prime in just two clicks.” That’s how a CNN report on the FTC’s upcoming case against Amazon described it. Which doesn’t help the FTC’s case. To see why,…
Temu is a low-cost online marketplace that has had the temerity to achieve popularity with American buyers while also being Chinese. In response to Temu’s achievements in the world’s most competitive…
Do you take Amazon or Walmart dollars? In the question it’s easy to see the problem with bitcoin, and other well-known speculations. People aren’t prone to storing their wealth meant for essentials…
Meta used to be Facebook. Why state the obvious? The answer is that what’s obvious very much calls into question the FTC’s antitrust case against Meta, the corporation formerly known as Facebook. Ok,…
In 1998, fast-food giant McDonald’s invested in a small Colorado burrito chain with just sixteen restaurants: Chipotle. Under McDonald’s leadership over the next seven years — and with an investment…
There are no sacred cows in Las Vegas. That’s the source of the city’s immense prosperity. The past and present are relentlessly pushed aside to make room for the future. In July of last year, the…
“DOJ Urges Federal Judge To Break Google’s Search Grip.” How interesting it would be to focus group the previous headline to a broad swath of the American people, young ones in particular. That is so…
When Facebook purchased Instagram for $1 billion in 2012, the deal wasn’t seen as obvious or a slam dunk… for Facebook. Which is a statement of the obvious, one abundantly proven by modern estimates…
