Robert Wright

Robert E. Wright is senior faculty fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. 

Author Archive

  • Oct 27, 2023
    "Much of the growth of the SEC can be seen as a variation of the 'Baptists and bootleggers' story, where the SEC is the bootlegger earning bigger budgets by combining with people who...
  • Oct 20, 2023
    "Allow individuals to build it and make clear that they cannot force others to build it for them, and they will build it. And, most likely, they will not want to blow it up." ~Robert...
  • Aug 10, 2023
    Fitch Ratings' recent downgrade of United States debt one notch from AAA to AA+ is still much too sanguine. America’s debt today should be rated closer to junk than to top-notch.
  • Jul 19, 2023
    Yet another massive train derailment has happened, this time just outside Philadelphia, the same city where an interstate highway was shuttered for weeks after...
  • May 23, 2023
    "The Biden administration threatens to invoke Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment to sidestep the longstanding federal debt ceiling in a way that would increase the power of the...
  • May 22, 2023
    "US economy may continue to grow or shrink a few percent from year to year, but it will remain mired in a deep depression compared to what it could have achieved." ~ Robert E. Wright
  • Apr 5, 2023
    "For political reasons, the beefed-up IRS probably will not cause serious trouble until processing 2024 returns in 2025. Unless, that is, taxpayers rebel the only way they still can,...
  • Mar 21, 2023
    "It is not clear that some sort of enhanced stockholder liability has yet returned to the Overton Window, but it is possible that Americans will point out the hypocrisy of the Biden...
  • Feb 23, 2023
    "The indictment of the New Deal’s treatment of blacks could go on for many more pages. Suffice it to say here that the New Deal was a raw deal for Americans, especially African...
  • Jan 28, 2023
    "Maybe, others one day will join the call once they hear how much cash could be recouped and costs and delays avoided by returning to the path once heavily traveled, the one where...
  • Jan 20, 2023
    "The 'chilling effect' of government censorship by corporate proxy has Americans on an icy slope that bottoms out in the sort of political slavery feared by the Founders and...