The exciting features of the school Jack would like to build are many more than the ones mentioned in this write-up. They all raise questions having to do with how to build a school that, at least for now, only exists in the imagination of Jack.
‘If I Built a School’ Is a Look at the Future of Schools Read More »
A disturbingly paranoid U.S. political class demands that Beijing-based TikTok owner ByteDance sell TikTok to a U.S. buyer or face a ban.
TikTok’s Theft By Paranoid Politicians Is Very Third World Read More »
Arguably the worst arguments made in favor of a forced sale of TikTok have to do with national security. Missed by pundits and politicians is that trade is the best protection of all for countries interested in national security precisely because it makes invasion of their country so expensive.
If National Security Is the Goal, Then Leaving TikTok Alone Is the Answer Read More »
Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced a bill last week that would establish a “standard” 32-hour workweek and lower the overtime threshold after which employers are required to pay time and a half. The Vermont socialist is late to the party again. The free market has already delivered what he’s seeking.
Bernie Sanders Tries to Legislate Leisure Read More »
How unfortunate if, in concert with the arrival of scores of Californians each day, Texas lawmakers begin to legislate in ways that caused more than a few of those arrivals from California to leave the state in the first place.
Texas Legislators Are Harassing Businesses California-Style Read More »
Vladimir Lenin famously asserted that the “The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” Some conservatives are hiding behind Lenin’s quip to justify their latest big, encroaching government apostasy.
Cowardly Critics of TikTok Hide Behind Vladimir Lenin Read More »
For Bill Ackman to suggest that rising energy costs could “cause inflation to rise” is for the investor to flip causation. It’s the equivalent of the assertion that suntans cause the sun.
Quite Unlike His Investing Style, Bill Ackman’s Economics Scream Conventional Read More »
There was a time when it was accepted wisdom at the Hoover Institution that market interventions slowed economic output. How things change.
The Federal Reserve’s Challenge Is Economists, Not Too Much Growth Read More »
The minute anyone sets foot in the U.S. their value automatically rises thanks to massive investment directed at production processes here.
To Keep Foreigners From Driving Down Wages, Let Them In Read More »
Just as the U.S. economy collapsed when panicky politicians decided to fight a virus with lockdowns, so did China’s where abject stupidity was allowed to last even longer. The answer in China is the same as anywhere when it comes to growth. China’s critics are overcomplicating what isn’t.
A Lack of a Plan Is Just What China Needs In Order to Grow Read More »
