A great Republican president took the opportunity at his farewell address to warn Americans of the dangers of private interests embedding themselves in government and using taxpayer dollars to grow large and powerful. It wasn’t George W. Bush discussing the bailouts or Ronald Reagan speaking on market deregulation following Black Monday, but rather Dwight D. … Continue reading “Investing in a Military Boom”

As a Chinese man whose name is already familiar to many Americans, Alibaba founder Jack Ma is one of the world’s wealthiest men, with a fortune estimated by many to be worth more than $27 billion. In the last month, Ma met President Donald Trump at Trump Tower in New York to talk about creating … Continue reading “Jack Ma’s Wise Words for America”

In 1991, a research article from Project HOPE tried to come to an analysis of the collapse of the Soviet medical system. The conclusions noted that the Soviet system was “plagued by chronic underfunding, antiquated and deteriorating facilities, inadequate supplies and outmoded equipment, poor morale and few incentives for health care workers, and consumer dissatisfaction.” … Continue reading “The Decline and Fall of the Obamacare Empire”

Britain’s Prime Minister, Theresa May, gave a speech about Brexit that showed off her intentions of Britain breaking free from the EU. The effects of her speech were immediately felt across the country and throughout the rest of the world. Prime Minister May made a few things perfectly clear in the address. First, Britain will … Continue reading “Britain’s Hard Exit”

Almost immediately following Trump’s victory last November, he went to work calling major corporations to send the message that he would punish those who hurt American workers, and reward those who helped them. Major firms responded positively to Trump’s rhetoric by bringing jobs back to the United States. It was a whirlwind few weeks during … Continue reading “As Pressure Builds, Trump Goes Radio Silent on Economy”

How quickly things change in just a year. It wasn’t 12 months ago that Democrat Hillary Clinton was the odds-on favorite to be the next American commander-in-chief, with former President Bill Clinton ready to move back into the White House as First Husband. Both Clintons presided over a supposedly nonprofit “humanitarian” foundation bearing their name … Continue reading “The Clintons Close Up Shop”

The list of things that make liberals afraid can seem comical at times: hot weather, police, financial success, mean words, and prayer are just some topics that form a non-exhaustive list of the left’s boogeymen. We can now add a new terreur du jour: the media-spun fear that President Donald Trump will launch a trade war … Continue reading “Reports of a Trade War are Greatly Exaggerated”

Most people agree that women make roughly 70% less than men. But the proponents of identity politics do not tell you how that number is calculated. Over the past eight years, the gender wage gap has been a major focusing point for the Obama Administration, and it’s a favorite claim of leftists in general. The … Continue reading “The Wage Gap: An Economist’s Perspective on the Feminist Claim”

As incoming President Donald Trump is about to take office and outgoing President Barack Obama departs, a dubious milestone has been achieved: the U.S. national debt has hit $20 trillion. While this number has greater psychological consequences than physical ones, it’s troubling because the road the country is headed down is not a good one. … Continue reading “The U.S. National Debt Is Now $20 Trillion”

We’ve talked a few times about how much Trump’s election has inspired economic confidence, but we haven’t gone into the depths of how remarkable that really is. Obama spent eight years fighting for a better economy, and his results were lukewarm at best. While there are many flaws one could mention in his policies, the … Continue reading “Trump vs Obama: Confidence”

Of all of incoming President Donald Trump’s fiscal policies, none likely will have as much impact as his (and Republican Speaker of the House Paul Ryan’s) proposed corporate border tax. Very simply, the border tax will be a 20 percent tax on imports and a 12 percent subsidy for income earned from exports. In effect, … Continue reading “How Trump’s “Border Tax” will Reshape the Global Economy”

Liberals are completely confident that they are smarter than their political opposition, and a major factor in that notion is that they can look to overwhelmingly successful figures who support the same notions. Liberals often lack the wherewithal to identify the less obvious machinations behind many of these public stances, and they firmly believe that … Continue reading “Top Left-Wing Companies Pushing Dangerous Narratives”

The Golden Obama Legacy added 20 million new Americans to health insurance. Because of this, Obamacare is an obvious and sweeping success, and if it is repealed, those 20 million Americans will no longer be insured. That’s what you’re being told almost incessantly. It’s also a gross perversion of the truth. Technically speaking, there are … Continue reading “How Adding 20 Million More Insured Americans Hurt”

We’ve talked about how worshipping science as a deity is a dangerous mindset, and we’ve covered how political agendas have hurt the integrity of science, which at its core is still a useful approach to problem solving. Continuing those discussions, it’s time to address the rising trend of absolutely false science. Even worse than fake … Continue reading “Forget Fake News. Fake Science Is on the Rise”

Liberals have their fair share of problems, but in the last year their voice has been overwhelmingly drowned by the rising progressives. Their great rallying cry is to call all dissent an equal combination of immoral judgment and overt stupidity. As they hail their new god, science, they take a completely uncompromising stance on every … Continue reading “Best Hits of Progressive Self-Contradiction”

An unpleasant truth may be coming to light for municipal governments of many of America’s largest cities, as fiscal managers realize that their Defined Benefit Pension Plans (DBPPs) are essentially large Ponzi schemes that have been allowed to fool workers into believing their retirement benefits are fully funded. But in many cases, these plans are … Continue reading “The Public Pension Ticking Time Bomb”

The cleverest prediction in the history of modern science is that global warming would cause weather to be unpredictable. Genius. Unfortunately for the climate change advocates, further predictions have claimed that severe weather would become more frequent and more severe. If you watch the news, this feels extremely true, but a closer look at the … Continue reading “The Real Cost of Climate Change”