I’ll always believe that the secret to Donald Trump’s success wasn’t his policy rhetoric, but his rhetorical style. That’s why Bret Stephens’s case for Donald Trump (Stephens can’t stand Trump) in the New York Times last week wasn’t very compelling.
A Case Against Bret Stephens’s Case For Trump, From a Trump Voter Read More »
If Jeff Bezos had been born in 1864 instead of 1964, no doubt he would have made his mark, but his genius would have touched exponentially fewer people.
In An Age of Soaring Inequality, Life Will Get Better and Better Read More »
While it’s accepted wisdom among economists that Arthur Burns authored the 1970s inflationary breakout, he did no such thing.
Arthur Burns Sadly Isn’t Around To Defend Himself Against Arthur Burns Read More »
Former Indiana governor Mitch Daniels is the latest, but surely not the last to predict crisis of the economic kind. You could fill more Rose Bowls than you have fingers with all the pundits who’ve predicted doom as he’s done, which is yet again the point.
Mitch Daniels Needn’t Worry, Markets Will Worry for Him Read More »
Former Fed official Claudia Sahm believes a tight Fed “could still ruin” what she imagines could be a soft landing.
Claudia Sahm Yearns For a ‘Soft Landing’ That the Fed Can’t Engineer Read More »
Oil is the most important commodity in the world, by far, and without it life as we know it would be defined by grinding poverty for the vast majority of the world in concert with primitive living standards for all of the world.
There’s Record U.S. Oil Extraction, That’s Why Oil Is So Expensive Read More »
Much more capable and wiser financial minds than my own feel Sam Bankman-Fried is a fraud and a crook.
Book Review: Michael Lewis’s Crucial ‘Going Infinite’ Read More »
Abolish federal student loans ASAP. Government should not be inserting itself into education. Just don’t expect tuition to decline.
Student Loans Aren’t the Cause of Rising Tuition Read More »
We have massive debt because Treasury collects way too much tax revenue, and that’s because the American rich are wildly overtaxed.
To Reduce Budget Deficits, Gut the IRS’s Budget Read More »
No doubt prices for many goods are higher post-Covid lockdowns, but Cochrane has mistaken the culprit.
John Cochrane Should Give Producers a Hand, Not the Federal Reserve Read More »
