I've found that if I want to look foolish, I predict short-term movements in the stock market. Or long-term movements. Still, if you ar...

Updated to reflect actual August job numbers and revised argument. Today’s job report makes 59 uninterrupted months of job creation. Judgi...

I'm not a fan of parades but I have an idea for one that I'd like to see. Imagine an intersection that brings traffic from the n...

Yesterday was my 32nd wedding anniversary. One comedian's quip often comes to me in this context. "50% of all marriages end in divo...

This last week has been brutal for markets, The S&P 500 has been jumping around by as much as 4% a day, and a great deal of it down. S...

Health care costs are ridiculous, devouring 17% of GDP. And an often overlooked fact is that more experienced surgeons make more than inexpe...

I used to bemoan the fact that political coverage wasn't policy coverage. All the focus on personalities seemed to ignore the larger, mo...

To the consternation of America's pundits, Trump still has a commanding lead in the Republican primary. Someone interviewing Trump s...

One of the books to greatly influence my thinking was William Deci's Why We Do What We Do . Deci makes a distinction between three style...

After we'd taken over, we were sitting around a table defining the new government. Castro asked "Who is an economist," but I ...

Jeb Bush is promsing 4% GDP growth. That would put him in the company of presidents FDR, LBJ, Reagan, and Clinton. I've heard him say ...

There is a price we pay for living in an information age. With access to unlimited music, movies, tweets, essays, cat videos, and opinions, ...

The problem with anti-abortion policies is simple. Folks like Ted Cruz believe that anyone who would outlaw contraceptives is a religious ze...

In a Washington Post poll from just four days ago, Donald Trump had nearly double the support of his two leading competitors. Serious pol...

This week the pope apologized for the Catholic Church's role in the exploitation of the people of the Americas. That was nice. 500 year...

"Most problems cannot be solved. And most problems are made irrelevant by success."  - Peter Drucker If the Eurozone had grown ...

The media works hard to find the worst among us. They have thousands of employees whose job it is to find the corrupt bureaucrats, the cheat...

"Dude," did you see how the gays just like, organized and got same-sex marriage legal, like, everywhere?" Dude exhales. Gigg...

One popular theory about the stock market is that its movement is random. This theory states that today’s prices reflect everything we now ...

About half of Americans believe at least one medical conspiracy theory . The most popular belief is that the FDA is "deliberately preve...