Friday, April 28, 2017

TGIF: Talk to, Don't Provoke, North Korea

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There’s little more we can do than hope that some cool heads around Donald Trump are telling him he’d be nuts to attack North Korea. I don’t...
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Government Fuel-Economy Standards: A Big Mistake

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My latest article for the American Institute for Economic Research is "Government Fuel-Economy Standards: A Big Mistake."

Humpty Trumpty and His Wall

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Humpty Trumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Trumpty had a great fall. Because the wall was a figment of his imagination.

Media Economic Illiteracy

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Observe the media's economic illiteracy: reporters and pundits wonder why the nominal 35 percent corporate tax rate should be lowered wh...
Friday, April 21, 2017

TGIF: The Only Solution to the Trumps’ Conflicts of Interest

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Pundits at CNN and other news outlets are much distressed over the report that Ivanka Trump’s clothing and accessories company won trademark...

Dodd-Frank Only Makes Things Worse

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My latest article at the American Institute for Economic Research is "Dodd-Frank Only Makes Things Worse."
Wednesday, April 19, 2017

My Latest

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My latest articles for the American Institute for Economic Research are: "Competition: Just What the Doctored Ordered" "Wh...
Friday, April 14, 2017

TGIF: What a Perverse Presidential Incentive System!

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All I can say is, we’ve got a hell of a political system on our hands when the surest way for a president to win the adoration of those wh...
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Thursday, April 13, 2017

Will Grigg: Principled, Committed, Indefatigable

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Unfortunately, I never met Will Grigg, our managing editor at The Libertarian Institute. I will always regret that. Our only direct contact ...

Will Grigg (1963-2017)

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Will Grigg, RIP

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Will Grigg, a great friend of liberty and justice, and a co-founder of The Libertarian Institute , not to mention a loving husband and fat...

Understanding Trade

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My latest article at the American Institute for Economic Research is "Understanding Trade."  Please check it out.
Sunday, April 09, 2017

Chesterton on the Maniac

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And if great reasoners are often maniacal, it is equally true that maniacs are commonly great reasoners. When I was engaged in a controve...
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Friday, April 07, 2017

TGIF: The Bogosity of Trump's "America First"

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It says something about the complexity of language (and me perhaps) that I took so long to realize that Donald Trump’s “America First” sloga...
Wednesday, April 05, 2017

Trump Changes His Mind about Assad

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In his news conference with King Abdullah of Jordan today, President Trump said that since the chemical attack in Syria, "my attitude t...
Tuesday, April 04, 2017

Latest Articles

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My latest articles, "Separating Culture and State" and "Abolish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau," appear at t...

A Day that Should Live in Infamy

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It's been 100 years since Woodrow Wilson committed the blunder of the 20th century by taking the United States into what was then known ...
Saturday, April 01, 2017

Getting It Straight

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“Production is the sole end and purpose of all consumption.” –Donald Trump (not in so many words)
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TGIF: Trump Never Was a Noninterventionist

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Can Donald Trump’s foreign policy “doctrine” and presidential actions accurately be described as noninterventionist? Strangely, Glenn Greenw...
Friday, March 24, 2017

One More Flaw in Conservative Health Care Reform

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Conservatives oppose federally mandated health insurance benefits (maternity, etc.), but they favor states having the power to mandate such...