Cut Taxes For Restaurant Waiters, But Don’t Expect Growth
Cut taxes. Waiters and waitresses should be taxed less, but entrepreneurs and CEOs should be taxed much less.
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Bret Stephens Unwittingly Suggests ‘They Didn’t Build That’
Stephens disappointingly makes a case that the market’s vitality is a Federal Reserve thing. He quotes Sharma as saying in an interview that “When the price of borrowing money is zero, the price of everything else goes bonkers.”
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Protect Adolescents From Surgeon Generals, Not Social Media
In a Times opinion piece published the day after his announcement, Murthy argued that “young people should be protected from technology that hasn’t been proved safe.”
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Doctors Didn’t Disappear, They’ve Happily Chosen to Earn More
Doctors still exist, but technology has happily freed them from a business model of old that allowed them to see and treat a tiny fraction of the individuals they could and will be able to treat in the future.
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Beyond Prosperity, AI Will Imbue the World With Immense Dignity
The erasure of work won’t put mean we’re not working, but it will mean we’re working in ways that maximize our ability to showcase our unique skills and intelligence.
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Janet Yellen Is the Big Threat to the U.S. Economy, Not China
Janet Yellen asserted that “if we do not respond strategically and in a united way” to “China’s industrial policy,” the “viability of businesses in both our countries and around the world could be at risk.” She couldn’t have it more backwards.
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The Fed Extols the Virtues of Cake to Debit-Card Users
Put another way, the Fed’s imposition of price ceilings on debit cards will be felt most uncomfortably by those with the most limited access to banking and its various services.
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Jennifer Lopez Is a Reminder of the Huge Risks Live Nation Took
Lopez is the embodiment of the major risks Live Nation took to get where it is, and how perilous its status will always be given the massive uncertainty (remember Tower Records, Friday Night Videos, or MTV?) that’s always defined the music sector.
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On the Matter of Expensive Big Macs, McDonald’s Isn’t to Blame
Talmon Joseph Smith and Jordyn Holman of the New York Times recently reported that “Over the past year, a series of indignant McDonald’s customers took to social media and posted receipts of orders they feel were overpriced.” Adding the empirical to the emotional, Smith and Holman note that since 2019 the price of a
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Will a Texas Stock Exchange Mean Much In a Federalized U.S.?
Markets are great, but it’s hard to see how the TXSE would be all that different thanks to so much in the way of federal rulemaking.
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