Stop Blaming Memphis’s Sad Present On Its Tragic Past

“Driving to my hotel, however, I saw only darkness. Vast sections of the city were total liquid black.” The city “was made largely of wood, so the bombs set off a hurricane of fire. Some three hundred thousand people were … Read More

It’s Not ‘Woke’ For Corporations To Dismiss What Leads To Food Abundance

Country singer Glenn Campbell died rich and very famous in Nashville in 2017. Both his wealth and fame would have been hard to fathom in consideration of his formative years in Billstown, Arkansas.

Campbell’s early life was marked by … Read More

Facebook Is Under Attack For Profiting While Improving Businesses

In Human Action, Austrian School eminence Ludwig von Mises calmly observed that in the business world, the businessman who fails to use his capital to the “best possible satisfaction of consumers” is “relegated to a place in which his ineptitude no … Read More

“You Just Pay For It”: How Trump And Ocasio-Cortez Think Alike

“Obama had zero interest to worry about; we’re paying interest, a lot of interest.”

– President Donald J. Trump, on the Fed’s interest-rate increases.

“You just pay for it.”

– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, on how to finance Medicare for … Read More

Russia Facebook ‘Meddling’ That Tilted Election Toward Trump Is Birtherism, Democrat Edition

Last month Forbes released its annual Forbes 400 list of richest Americans. As readers can probably imagine, there are countless 400 members who grew incredibly well-to-do thanks to their technological innovations, product genius, through their keen investing skills, heirs are prominent too, and then there are … Read More

Why My Thanksgiving Feast Will Be Cheaper And Healthier Than Your Organic Meal

Thanksgiving is upon us, which means families across the U.S. will soon be enjoying the most mouth-watering of meals. This #1 gathering of food and family is a celebration of the early American settlers’ creation of plenty against long odds … Read More

With His Paranoid Attack On China, Mike Pence Attacked U.S. Prosperity

U.S. equities took a bit of a hit at the end of last week. And while it’s always a fool’s errand to presume to know what brought on a reversal in the world’s deepest markets, it’s worth considering the … Read More

Don’t Let The Alarmists Fool You, Millennials Don’t Think Socialism Is ‘Cool’

Last year, accounting firm Ernst & Young (E&Y) boosted paternity leave from six to sixteen weeks.  And while it’s possible the company has abnormally kind management, the feelings that may or may not have informed the development were really immaterial.

Figure … Read More

Don’t Be Fooled, There Was Nothing ‘Financial’ About The 2008 Crisis

The 10-year anniversary of the 2008 financial crisis has unsurprisingly unearthed all manner of retrospectives on what happened, why it happened, and how what happened can be avoided in the future.  Most don’t ring true.  This essay will correct some … Read More

Let’s Be Blunt: Internet Sales Taxes Are Economy-Sapping Domestic Tariffs

Just curious, but if a Washington, D.C. resident buys a pack of cigarettes in Arlington, VA, should this person pay a sales tax to the District of Columbia? Figure that cigarettes cost roughly $5.25/pack in Virginia versus $7.99 in D.C. … Read More

Record Tax Revenues Under Trump

Washington State University’s athletics department currently has a budget deficit of $67 million.  Cal-Berkeley’s department is similarly in serious debt, as are those of many other Power Five institutions.

Where it might get interesting is that the debt faced by … Read More

Sorry Envious Left, ‘Trickle-Down’ Economics Is Real, And It’s Everywhere

The late, great Cuban immigrant Roberto Goizueta was named CEO of the Coca-Cola Company in August of 1980, and ran it until his untimely death from cancer in October of 1997.  During that time, and according to a 1997 essay … Read More