A little shout out to the economists for D-Day. We rightfully praise the brave men who stormed the beach that day. We pay less attention ...

We beat the Nazis because we had better manufacturing and research capacity. We invented the atom bomb before they did. We made tanks and pl...

"From Harrisburg to Philadelphia there was a railroad, the first I had ever seen ... In travelling by the road from Harrisburg, I thoug...

In 1972, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) set quotas for women, minorities and students. Curiously, the party that had championed la...

Robert J. Gordon's Rise and Fall of American Growth includes some stunning statistics about the American workforce. First, the 20th ce...

I gave a toast to Blake on his wedding Friday but managed to lose my list of bullet points. I reconstructed them about ten minutes before ...

The big debate isn’t about whether we should have a socialist or capitalist economy.  Depending on how you define those terms, socialism a...

The simplest statement of effective economic policy is to create, get, or get more from whatever limits progress. As a community shifts from...

Since December, the labor force has shrunk by 770,000. This is one reason that the unemployment rate hit its lowest in this century in March...

Yascha Mounk has an interesting podcast on the BBC in which he traces the rise of populism along the old iron curtain in Europe. A Polish...

Trump wanted to appoint his friend Herman Cain to the Fed. He's still pursuing the appointment of Stephen Moore. As it comes out, Trum...

During his thirty-year career, Martin Luther produced 544 separate books, pamphlets, or articles, slightly more than one every three weeks. ...

"I like the idea of a gold standard and, you know, restoring value to the dollar," Stephen Moore says in this clip . Trump has a...

The notion that immigrants are a threat to your job has a few elements, just one that I want to explore here. If an immigrant is a threat ...

Universities have standards they use to judge whether applicants deserve to join. We have elections to decide who should serve on city coun...

"I'm [angry, outraged, offended] so you have to take my idea seriously." "No. Your idea needs to be serious to be taken ...

Dee Hock fascinates me. He knew that money had been many things over time, from tobacco leaves to gold bits to pieces of paper - and realize...

Our last four presidents were all baby boomers. Clinton, Bush, and Trump were all born within a year of when Japan's surrender ended W...

With Trump's on-going attack on dead John McCain last weekend one thing is clear: the GOP has officially become the anti-sacrifice party...

I like Elizabeth Warren. Until she lapses into the reasons for raising taxes on the rich. "A government that caters to the rich is corr...