Commodity Speculation in a Free-Market
Speculative activity, of course, is not limited to anticipating just future scarcities. Rather, it seeks in general to balance consumption and production over time by accumulating stocks of commodities and regulating their rate of consumption.
Facts on Hurricanes and Climate are Blowing in the Wind
The best long-term data on hurricanes hitting the United States shows a decline, even for strong hurricanes.
Trusting Iran Compromises U.S. National Security
The Biden administration is offering Iran extraordinary incentives to continue its charade of compliance, enabling Iran to have greater means to support its terror proxies across the Middle East.
Will Colombia Turn Back Before It’s Too Late?
Will Colombia’s Gustavo Petro heed the lessons of Chavez’s Venezuela and avoid a similar fate?
Incentivizing Bad Behavior: HUD, Freddie Mac, and Fannie Mae
To this day, private companies are castigated for “predatory lending.” Yet, it was government policy that incentivized loans to those who couldn’t afford to repay them.
Defending Grocery Stores’ “Excess” Profits
We should celebrate, not resent, the grocers’ profits.
Foreign Investment: The Problem of Domestic Capital Accumulation (4 of 5)
What is lacking in order to make the developing countries as prosperous as the United States is only one thing: capital-and, of course, the freedom to employ it under the discipline of the market and not the discipline of the government.
Waiving Big Pharma’s Intellectual Property Rights is a Gross Injustice
A movement is underway to pressure the Biden Administration to waive global intellectual property (IP) rights to COVID vaccines developed in the United States.
