Do We Have a Free-Market Medical System?
Edward K. Glassman, my long ago Harvard classmate, author of Dow 36,000 (predicting Dow at that level by 2005), and current director of the George W. Bush Institute, extolls our free market medical system at FoxNews this week.
Without Government, Who Will Send Out False Alarms for Nuclear War?
Being a government agency means never having to say your sorry. With last Saturday’s botched warning over an alleged ballistic missile hurtling toward Hawaii, we’re unlikely to see much beyong a call for more government funding.
Justin Raimondo writes:
Don’t Force Google To Hire Conservatives
On January 8th, 2018, former Google employee James Damore filed a discrimination lawsuit against the tech giant. Damore made national headlines last year after he released the Google Memo. In the memo, Damore alleged that Google has shunned ideas that disrupt their leftist narrative.
Inequality, Capital, and the Problem of Piketty
Anti-Piketty: Capital for the 21st Century, Jean-Philippe Delsol, Nicolas Lecaussin, and Emmanuel Martin, eds. Cato Institute, 2017
Silent Cal on “America First”
The rise of Trump has dredged up old and bitter debates surrounding the concept of ”America First,” a position Trump frequently advocates almost unconsciously and using his own peculiar terms. Consider this tweet, from 2013, as an example of Trump expressing a populist, America First sentiment regarding both domestic and foreign policy in a few short words:
Filibuster in Cuba, Part 1
On Universities, Krugman, and the State of Austrian Economics
DEIST: Let’s begin with your assessment of the state of Austrian economics today.
Why California Has the Nation’s Worst Poverty Rate
Earlier this week, the LA Times reminded its readers that California has the highest poverty rate in the nation.
Specifically, when using the Census Bureau’s most recent” Supplemental Poverty Measure” (SPM), California clocks in with a poverty rate of 20 percent, which places it as worst in the nation.
Bob Dylan as Economic Prophet
We have a habit on our trading floor of playing Bob Dylan whenever the markets start selling off. We hardly ever play Dylan these days. Though I consider the Nobel Laureate something of a personal classical liberal icon, I don’t remember exactly how this office tradition ever started. But the connection is appropriate, a nod to the enigmatic genius who wrote anthems for freedom, against power and coercion, and, most relevantly, on change—irrepressible, revolutionary, and sometimes catastrophic change.
