Economy Liberty, Risk, and Permission to Live Dangerously by October 20, 2025 by October 20, 2025 When my eldest son was four years old, he climbed on top of a batting cage at a park in… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Playing Chicken with the Federal Budget: The Rational Stupidity of Shutdowns by October 17, 2025 by October 17, 2025 “Chicken” is a game where two people, or two groups, want different things, in a context where “I win/you lose.” … 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Toxic Empathy Is Killing NYC’s Gifted Programs by October 17, 2025 by October 17, 2025 Zohran Mamdani announced early this month that, should he win the New York City mayoral race, he intends to shut… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Sow a Trade War, Harvest a Farm Crisis by October 16, 2025 by October 16, 2025 Across the United States, harvesters are beginning to scythe their way through fields of crops. How well or badly the… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy How to Prove Economists Wrong About Tariffs: Never Do What You Threatened by October 16, 2025 by October 16, 2025 On and shortly after Liberation Day, economists warned that tariffs would raise prices, snarl supply chains, and cut into economic… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy A Government Shutdown Is Less Scary Than Its Dysfunction-As-Usual by October 15, 2025 by October 15, 2025 Government is presently “shut down” for failure of Congress to pass a budget for the start of the fiscal year.… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy The Fed Cuts, but the Market Shrugs: Why Mortgage Rates Refuse to Fall by October 15, 2025 by October 15, 2025 I wrote a few weeks ago about how Trump’s manipulation of the Federal Reserve would have to go much further… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy The 2025 Nobel in Economics and the Roots of Enduring Growth by October 14, 2025 by October 14, 2025 This year’s Nobel Prize in Economics recognizes groundbreaking work on how innovation, entrepreneurship, and creative destruction fuel sustained economic growth.… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail