This morning the new GDP numbers were announced here . The numbers compare the second quarter of 2019 with the second quarter of 2018. GD...

When it comes to politics, there are a lot of people who believe that the truth lies somewhere in the middle and that if only we listened to...

Harper's Weekly Review always serves as a stark reminder of how many truly weird things happen in any given week. This week's accoun...

Someone literally responded to my making fun of Trump with, "Well Ilhan Omar wants Sharia Law here." And I thought, "Y...

Moliere had a character in a play who was terribly surprised to learn that he'd been speaking prose all his life. Today Trump told democ...

Trump lost the popular vote in 2016. Less talked about is how narrow was his electoral college victory. To put that in perspective, he's...

The women's soccer team is fighting for equal pay. A conservative friend thinks this is silly. It's a curious thing. This friend i...

Excerpt from P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking's LikeWar: the weaponization of social media. Michael Flynn's personal Twitter a...

Here's one possible route to beating Mitch McConnell. I think it may work politically but in any case it presents the truth about Kentuc...

It seems a requirement of modern politics that Democrats criticize big business and Republicans criticize big government. There is one...

File under: things that mostly just fascinate me but really do affect everyone: "$20 trillion of the $55 trillion in global sovereign ...

In late January of 2009, I got a call from mom. Dad was in ER. About 90 minutes later, after midnight, I got up there. I was chatting wi...

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...