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Feb 28, 2026
The ambitious of all stripes flock to where the economic growth is. Which is no insight. Where growth is greatest, so are wages.
Consider what you’ve just read in relation to...
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Feb 27, 2026
A recent above the fold, front-page headline at the New York Times asserted that “Reliance on Taiwan Chips Endangers U.S. Economy.” The article’s subhead added that...
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Feb 26, 2026
In 1981, and while trying to get the tax cuts he favored passed by Congress, Ronald Reagan joked about getting shot again to move public opinion in his direction, and by extension,...
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Feb 25, 2026
Why were there no billionaires in the 19th century? Tick tock, tick tock…
No doubt those with an Austrian or Monetarist School bent would say that the scarcity of billionaires...
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Feb 24, 2026
Scholars at Brookings, Cato, Hoover, along with adjacent pundits, have been promising a “crisis” related to the national debt for decades. Despite so many of the wise so...
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Feb 23, 2026
Currency debasement in no way fools the electorate.
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Feb 21, 2026
The frequently excellent Bret Stephens was thrilled about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s elevation of Western civilization in his Munich Security Conference speech last week....
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Feb 20, 2026
Social Security is not going bankrupt, and by extension benefits won’t be cut. Not now, not in four years, not in forty.
The irony in all of this is that existing and future...
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Feb 19, 2026
According to the New York Times, global warming isn’t a threat. About what you just read, the Times didn’t acknowledge the latter as much as it implied it.
In a recent...
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Feb 18, 2026
West Virginia’s relative poverty isn’t an effect of California’s enormous wealth. The better way to look at it is to consider how much poorer the Mountain State...
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Feb 17, 2026
The rich of tomorrow will happily be quite a bit richer than today's rich. That’s because the proliferation of AI meant to do and think for us will unearth superhuman qualities...
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Feb 16, 2026
Money buys nothing. It's always production for production.
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Feb 14, 2026
If “the border” informs your thoughts about immigration, then your mind is wandering. Seriously, how often have you crossed the border (on foot, no less) to go to work in...
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Feb 13, 2026
People travel from around the world to visit Brooklyn. The “outer borough” formerly known as “Crooklyn” is increasingly a destination for travelers the world...
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Feb 12, 2026
Ed Crane lived a big life. Some will see the previous statement as an obvious one, and one made evident by the fact that Ed, along with Charles Koch, founded the Cato Institute, the...
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Feb 11, 2026
The U.S. economy would be a fraction of its incredibly vibrant self if investors truly keyed on “quarterly earnings.” Amazon and Google continue to show us why.
For...
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Feb 10, 2026
The national debt will continue to soar. Bank on it.
See Holman Jenkins’s column from last week for evidence. He wrote in the Wall Street Journal that “The U.S....
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Feb 9, 2026
The central bank is just not that important. We insult the U.S. economic engine when we pretend that it is.
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Feb 7, 2026
In the recently launched California Post, gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton wrote that Californians suffer the worst results despite paying the highest taxes. Without disagreeing...
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Feb 6, 2026
As Nvidia’s Jensen Huang routinely points out, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is work. That’s why it will be the most powerful, growth boosting, job creator the world has...
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Feb 5, 2026
“This saga was never about TikTok’s utility or popularity but its Chinese ownership and apparent links to the Chinese Communist Party.” That’s from a recent...
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Feb 4, 2026
Money in no way alters reality. This truth seemingly eludes Harvard economist Jason Furman.
Consider his assertion in the New York Times that the dollar at “multiyear...
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Feb 3, 2026
Government spending is excessively harmful precisely because it’s the central planning of precious goods, services and labor by the federal government. Conservatives and...
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Feb 2, 2026
Why wasn’t Joe Biden afforded the same, market-based dollar analysis by the Journal’s editorial page when he was President?
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Jan 31, 2026
There was nothing “financial” about the so-called “2008 financial crisis.” Markets quite simply ARE. They’re neither left nor right, nor are they biased...
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Jan 30, 2026
When did Republicans quit on supply side and go John Maynard Keynes on us? What can’t be said enough is that supply-side economics isn’t about fiddling with the tax rate...
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Jan 29, 2026
Elon Musk predicts that with the proliferation of AI, including his Optimus robots, the people of tomorrow will not have to work if they choose not to. Thanks to the automation of so...
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Jan 28, 2026
Those who reduce the talks at the World Economic Forum (Davos) to bloviations evidently haven’t witnessed the last two speeches by Argentina president Javier Milei, or for that...
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Jan 27, 2026
Experts too easily forget that “government spending” is a benign way of describing central planning of precious resources.
Which means it fails repeatedly. Rich as...
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Jan 26, 2026
A stable dollar would lift the global economy like nothing else, and would give the Trump presidency infinitely more prestige than a Nobel Peace Prize ever could.
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Jan 24, 2026
There were “lines for everything” in the former Soviet Union. That’s what Hedrick Smith conveyed to rapt readers in his 1976 book, The Russians.
As frustrated...
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Jan 23, 2026
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos can’t realistically spend all the wealth they’ve created. That’s why both epitomize progress. It’s not just that they’ve...
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Jan 22, 2026
Australia’s young people are way too smart for Australia’s politicians. See the recent implementation of Australia’s “Social Media Minimum Age Act.”
The...
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Jan 21, 2026
“The U.S. must build, baby.” The latter is the subhead to a recent opinion piece published at the right-of-center Manhattan Institute. Supposedly the easy answer to...
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Jan 20, 2026
The U.S. oil sector had its worst stretch under Ronald Reagan. So substantially did prices fall during his presidency that even his Vice President (George H.W. Bush) made the rather...
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Jan 20, 2026
The worst thing for a country's economy is for legislators to borrow money for deficit spending during economic downturns. Too bad no one agrees, including those perhaps pre-disposed...
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Jan 19, 2026
Forgotten by PhD types eager to elevate their economic intelligence by denigrating Trump’s is that frequently they reveal their own limitations while explaining Trump’s.
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Jan 17, 2026
“You don’t want to send your son there because he’ll become a communist, he’ll become a drug addict.” That’s the modern consensus about elite...
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Jan 16, 2026
Cable television visionary John Malone could have owned a substantial portion of AOL before it was AOL. Where it perhaps becomes more ironic is that it was Malone’s TCI...
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Jan 15, 2026
There are already flying taxis in China. There’s drone delivery of meals too.
About the leaps taking place in China, some will say we need to catch up. Others will say that in...
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Jan 14, 2026
One of Joe Biden’s biggest fibs received the least amount of attention. Back when he was president, and amid notably high gasoline prices, Biden talked of how when he was...
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Jan 14, 2026
Leave Nancy Pelosi alone. Or at the very least, leave Pelosi alone to trade stocks. To muzzle her apparent skill when it comes to picking stocks is to blind the rest of us to crucial...
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Jan 13, 2026
The top 400 American taxpayers pay more in federal taxes than the bottom 70 percent of U.S. taxpayers combined. The previous truth is a friendly reply to Cliff Asness and Michael...
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Jan 12, 2026
If lending eviscerated money, then no would we lend or borrow.
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Jan 10, 2026
They thought Elon Musk was retarded. That’s what Walter Isaacson reports in his biography of Musk about the teachers at Musk’s elementary school. Musk’s response to...
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Jan 9, 2026
“While the music industry continues to get buffeted by technological change – here comes the AI wave, next.” That’s how media visionary John Malone describes...
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Jan 8, 2026
“We thought Grease was going to be a disaster.” That’s how Barry Diller bluntly puts it in his memoirs (Who Knew) about one of the many blockbuster films that...
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Jan 7, 2026
A weak dollar will sap Donald Trump’s presidency like no other policy. This is something Steve Moore, a top outside economic adviser to Trump, knows well. So does Moore’s...
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Jan 6, 2026
Central planning is bad, which means government spending is bad. Contra the most prominent number in economics (GDP), government spending is by its very name an economic wrecking...
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Jan 5, 2026
Investment is discovery, while hedging inflation is at best running in place.
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Jan 3, 2026
In an ideal world, every credentialed economist would spend a day, week or semester in Orlando as a way of facing up to the myriad fallacies that stalk their profession. What gives...
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Jan 2, 2026
They’re both wrong. Who is? Trump supporters who’ve long defended mindless tariffs, along with economists wisely against mindless tariffs, but who now claim they...
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Jan 1, 2026
“Definitely wasn’t interested in going to insurance or anything like that.” That’s how former University of Texas and University of Utah quarterback Cam...
Feb 28, 2026The ambitious of all stripes flock to where the economic growth is. Which is no insight. Where growth is greatest, so are wages. Consider what you’ve just read in relation to...
Feb 27, 2026A recent above the fold, front-page headline at the New York Times asserted that “Reliance on Taiwan Chips Endangers U.S. Economy.” The article’s subhead added that...
Feb 26, 2026In 1981, and while trying to get the tax cuts he favored passed by Congress, Ronald Reagan joked about getting shot again to move public opinion in his direction, and by extension,...
Feb 25, 2026Why were there no billionaires in the 19th century? Tick tock, tick tock… No doubt those with an Austrian or Monetarist School bent would say that the scarcity of billionaires...
Feb 24, 2026Scholars at Brookings, Cato, Hoover, along with adjacent pundits, have been promising a “crisis” related to the national debt for decades. Despite so many of the wise so...
Feb 23, 2026Currency debasement in no way fools the electorate. 
Feb 21, 2026The frequently excellent Bret Stephens was thrilled about Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s elevation of Western civilization in his Munich Security Conference speech last week....
Feb 20, 2026Social Security is not going bankrupt, and by extension benefits won’t be cut. Not now, not in four years, not in forty. The irony in all of this is that existing and future...
Feb 19, 2026According to the New York Times, global warming isn’t a threat. About what you just read, the Times didn’t acknowledge the latter as much as it implied it. In a recent...
Feb 18, 2026West Virginia’s relative poverty isn’t an effect of California’s enormous wealth. The better way to look at it is to consider how much poorer the Mountain State...
Feb 17, 2026The rich of tomorrow will happily be quite a bit richer than today's rich. That’s because the proliferation of AI meant to do and think for us will unearth superhuman qualities...
Feb 16, 2026Money buys nothing. It's always production for production. 
Feb 14, 2026If “the border” informs your thoughts about immigration, then your mind is wandering. Seriously, how often have you crossed the border (on foot, no less) to go to work in...
Feb 13, 2026People travel from around the world to visit Brooklyn. The “outer borough” formerly known as “Crooklyn” is increasingly a destination for travelers the world...
Feb 12, 2026Ed Crane lived a big life. Some will see the previous statement as an obvious one, and one made evident by the fact that Ed, along with Charles Koch, founded the Cato Institute, the...
Feb 11, 2026The U.S. economy would be a fraction of its incredibly vibrant self if investors truly keyed on “quarterly earnings.” Amazon and Google continue to show us why. For...
Feb 10, 2026The national debt will continue to soar. Bank on it. See Holman Jenkins’s column from last week for evidence. He wrote in the Wall Street Journal that “The U.S....
Feb 9, 2026The central bank is just not that important. We insult the U.S. economic engine when we pretend that it is. 
Feb 7, 2026In the recently launched California Post, gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton wrote that Californians suffer the worst results despite paying the highest taxes. Without disagreeing...
Feb 6, 2026As Nvidia’s Jensen Huang routinely points out, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is work. That’s why it will be the most powerful, growth boosting, job creator the world has...
Feb 5, 2026“This saga was never about TikTok’s utility or popularity but its Chinese ownership and apparent links to the Chinese Communist Party.” That’s from a recent...
Feb 4, 2026Money in no way alters reality. This truth seemingly eludes Harvard economist Jason Furman. Consider his assertion in the New York Times that the dollar at “multiyear...
Feb 3, 2026Government spending is excessively harmful precisely because it’s the central planning of precious goods, services and labor by the federal government. Conservatives and...
Feb 2, 2026Why wasn’t Joe Biden afforded the same, market-based dollar analysis by the Journal’s editorial page when he was President?
Jan 31, 2026There was nothing “financial” about the so-called “2008 financial crisis.” Markets quite simply ARE. They’re neither left nor right, nor are they biased...
Jan 30, 2026When did Republicans quit on supply side and go John Maynard Keynes on us? What can’t be said enough is that supply-side economics isn’t about fiddling with the tax rate...
Jan 29, 2026Elon Musk predicts that with the proliferation of AI, including his Optimus robots, the people of tomorrow will not have to work if they choose not to. Thanks to the automation of so...
Jan 28, 2026Those who reduce the talks at the World Economic Forum (Davos) to bloviations evidently haven’t witnessed the last two speeches by Argentina president Javier Milei, or for that...
Jan 27, 2026Experts too easily forget that “government spending” is a benign way of describing central planning of precious resources. Which means it fails repeatedly. Rich as...
Jan 26, 2026A stable dollar would lift the global economy like nothing else, and would give the Trump presidency infinitely more prestige than a Nobel Peace Prize ever could.
Jan 24, 2026There were “lines for everything” in the former Soviet Union. That’s what Hedrick Smith conveyed to rapt readers in his 1976 book, The Russians. As frustrated...
Jan 23, 2026Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos can’t realistically spend all the wealth they’ve created. That’s why both epitomize progress. It’s not just that they’ve...
Jan 22, 2026Australia’s young people are way too smart for Australia’s politicians. See the recent implementation of Australia’s “Social Media Minimum Age Act.” The...
Jan 21, 2026“The U.S. must build, baby.” The latter is the subhead to a recent opinion piece published at the right-of-center Manhattan Institute. Supposedly the easy answer to...
Jan 20, 2026The U.S. oil sector had its worst stretch under Ronald Reagan. So substantially did prices fall during his presidency that even his Vice President (George H.W. Bush) made the rather...
Jan 19, 2026Forgotten by PhD types eager to elevate their economic intelligence by denigrating Trump’s is that frequently they reveal their own limitations while explaining Trump’s.
Jan 17, 2026“You don’t want to send your son there because he’ll become a communist, he’ll become a drug addict.” That’s the modern consensus about elite...
Jan 16, 2026Cable television visionary John Malone could have owned a substantial portion of AOL before it was AOL. Where it perhaps becomes more ironic is that it was Malone’s TCI...
Jan 15, 2026There are already flying taxis in China. There’s drone delivery of meals too. About the leaps taking place in China, some will say we need to catch up. Others will say that in...
Jan 14, 2026One of Joe Biden’s biggest fibs received the least amount of attention. Back when he was president, and amid notably high gasoline prices, Biden talked of how when he was...
Jan 14, 2026Leave Nancy Pelosi alone. Or at the very least, leave Pelosi alone to trade stocks. To muzzle her apparent skill when it comes to picking stocks is to blind the rest of us to crucial...
Jan 13, 2026The top 400 American taxpayers pay more in federal taxes than the bottom 70 percent of U.S. taxpayers combined. The previous truth is a friendly reply to Cliff Asness and Michael...
Jan 12, 2026If lending eviscerated money, then no would we lend or borrow. 
Jan 10, 2026They thought Elon Musk was retarded. That’s what Walter Isaacson reports in his biography of Musk about the teachers at Musk’s elementary school. Musk’s response to...
Jan 9, 2026“While the music industry continues to get buffeted by technological change – here comes the AI wave, next.” That’s how media visionary John Malone describes...
Jan 8, 2026“We thought Grease was going to be a disaster.” That’s how Barry Diller bluntly puts it in his memoirs (Who Knew) about one of the many blockbuster films that...
Jan 6, 2026Central planning is bad, which means government spending is bad. Contra the most prominent number in economics (GDP), government spending is by its very name an economic wrecking...
Jan 5, 2026Investment is discovery, while hedging inflation is at best running in place. 
Jan 3, 2026In an ideal world, every credentialed economist would spend a day, week or semester in Orlando as a way of facing up to the myriad fallacies that stalk their profession. What gives...
Jan 2, 2026They’re both wrong. Who is? Trump supporters who’ve long defended mindless tariffs, along with economists wisely against mindless tariffs, but who now claim they...
Jan 1, 2026“Definitely wasn’t interested in going to insurance or anything like that.” That’s how former University of Texas and University of Utah quarterback Cam...