The Adult Critics of Instagram Really Need to Grow Up
We must be a seriously rich country with very few real problems if media members and grandstanding politicians are attacking Instagram and Meta for having young users.
economics
Book Review: Walter Isaacson’s Spellbinding ‘Elon Musk’
How fortunate we are to have Elon Musk, how fun it is to read about him, and how exciting if we could know now whom Isaacson will write about ten years from now.
TikTok Nailbiters Would Be Wise To Bone Up On Viktor Belenko
U.S. businesses are expanding rapidly in China. Do you trust their instincts, or that of a political structure that was once so certain about the Soviet threat?
If AI Can’t Exceed Human Abilities, Then There’s No Point To AI
Tractors, cars and computers are ubiquitous today precisely because they thankfully surpassed human ability, and the expectations of many skeptics back then. Let’s hope AI does too.
Javier Milei Needn’t ‘Dollarize’: Market Forces Have Done It for Him
Argentina is already “dollarized.” For Javier Milei to decree dollarization would be for him to insert the state into monetary policy.
Who Knows Business Better? Pundits, or Those In Business?
American CEOs overseeing a large and growing China presence know exponentially more about the on-the-ground reality in the country than do their critics.
Contra the Experts, ‘Energy Dependence’ Doesn’t Shrink ‘National Wealth’
Imagine how staggeringly poor we would be absent all the mechanization and subsequent productive leaps born of oil’s discovery as a crucial source of fuel.
There’s a Singular Fix for Inflation, and It’s All About Standards
Without standards, money loses value not because it’s circulating too much, but because it circulates in lesser and lesser amounts. The theories are all wrong. To erase inflation, adopt standards. Nothing else works.
The Bigger Meaning of Aaron Rodgers’s Potential Return In 2023
This is the real crisis. It’s no reach to say that absent massive government consumption all of these decades, Rodgers would already be playing again.
The Well Overdone Conceit of ‘Rare Earth’ Alarmists
There’s nothing to all the handwringing about China and “rare earths” despite what economically confused media members and politicians believe.