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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 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 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 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...
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 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...
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 7, 2026A 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...
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...