The problem with government can’t be found in how the funds it wastes are extracted, rather the problem can be found in the extraction. Eventually deficit hawks will realize this truth, that the real “burden on the grandchildren” is the size of the government they’ll inherit, not the debt.
Matt Gaetz Beat Kevin McCarthy, But Hasn’t Yet Won the Debate Read More »
Uncertainty about Social Security’s future is more of a political discussion than it is a discussion of actual market realities.
Indifference Will Kill Off Social Security, Not a Lack of Money Read More »
The FTC’s focus is essentially on the past, while Amazon spends enormous amounts of money trying to discover the future
As She Attacks Amazon, Lina Khan Shouts at the Past Read More »
Every time a government shutdown happens, or is threatened to happen, economics reporters find economists at Goldman Sachs and other prestige institutions willing to tell them how much GDP will shrink due to a lack of near-term government spending.
Goldman Sachs’s Economists Need to Get To Know David Solomon Read More »
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 damage from their meddling is immediate.
No, There’s No Near-Term ‘Sugar High’ From Government Spending Read More »
If we’re free-speech absolutists, we’re by definition absolutists about the sources of speech. What’s being done to TikTok is embarrassing, and it won’t redound to its political critics in the U.S.
TikTok Faces Suffocating Government Authoritarianism…In the U.S. Read More »
