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MARKETS
Wrong Lessons That May Be Learned from the Coronavirus Crisis
Economic nationalists seem to be applying Rahm Emanuel’s now famous phrase of ‘never letting a serious crisis go to waste’ in the service of a political agenda that might be harder to push in calmer times.
Inflation Destroys Real Wages
In the same vein as medieval physicians believed bloodletting would cure illness, modern snake-oil economists still perilously cling to their claim that rising wages and salaries are the cause of inflation. With my recent debates with these...
Will Precious Metals Survive the Double Dip?
It is rare in recent history for precious metals to appreciate in parallel with the broader stock market. Yet, this has been the case in the two years since the stock market began crawling out of the wreckage of the 2008 financial crisis. Although metals have vastly...
The Symptoms of Nuclear Hysteria
Imagine you invented a machine that revolutionized travel. You know your invention could cut local and long distance travel time substantially and vastly improve the ability for business to deliver freight efficiently. The invention would add trillions to global GDP....
POLITICS
Why To Vote Against Trump
Trump has taken over the Republican Party and stripped it of all vestiges of ideology. Trump is the most anti-ideological, anti-conceptual president in memory.
Obama Subsidy Spin
Obamacare incentives could reduce the size of the labor force by more than two million workers by 2017
No Material Poverty in the U.S.
Here are a few facts about people whom the Census Bureau labels as poor.
Random Thoughts: February 2014
Random thoughts on the passing scene…
CULTURE
Yaron Brook on The Ben Shapiro Show
Yaron Brook speaks on the Ben Shapiro Show on why capitalism cannot be justified on altruistic grounds, but only by rational egoism.
Christianity’s Contribution to Women
American women were baptized into the workforce decades ago. Today they're running their own businesses, launching their own product lines, are managers, directors, VPs and CEOs. That's why the recent Southern Baptist Convention's in-fight over the issue of women in...
The McWilliams Special, Part 3 of 3
Just how McWilliams felt we had no means of knowing; but we knew our hearts would not beat freely until his infernal Special should slide safely over the last of the 266 miles which still lay between the distressed man and his unfortunate child. From McCloud to...
The McWilliams Special, Part 2 of 3
On the West End we had all night to prepare, and at five o'clock next morning every man in the operating department was on edge. At precisely 3.58 A.M. the McWilliams Special stuck its nose into our division, and Foley-pulled off No. 1 with the 466 -- was heading her...
LAW
An Open Letter to Clemson Students
It is our moral obligation as faculty to defend our students’ basic rights to free speech and expression, whether we support those views or not.
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SCI-TECH
Silencing Opposition to Greens on Global Warming
The petition I have referred to has no financial support from Exxon or any other company in the oil, coal, or natural gas industries. Can the same thing be said about governmental support of The Royal Society and the endless “studies” dedicated to advancing the Green agenda?
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WORLD
Europe’s Appeasing of Castro Prolongs tyranny
Last Thursday, the French embassy in Havana decided to invite Fidel Castro's communist cronies over to help celebrate France's Bastille Day -- a day similar in significance and symbolism to our Fourth of July.Shamefully, they expressly didn't invite any of Cuba's...
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