At tomorrow's Thanksgiving dinner, here are some conversation starters, rated from safe to hell-bent on never getting invited anywhere e...

U.S. presidential campaign spending has grown dramatically over the past few decades. The 2010 Citizens United ruling changed campaign finan...

In an exchange with my friend Brian Blackwell, we were discussing tariffs. One often-overlooked aspect of this topic is the extent to which ...

Silicon Valley (SV) and King County, Washington (KCW) have created more wealth—in the form of market capitalization—than all of Europe. Let ...

Donald Trump’s best strategy for his second term might be to do... nothing. If he adopts an “inactive executive” approach—focusing on rallie...

Every four years, 338 million Americans—roughly 160 million of them voters—engage in the process of choosing the next president. It’s remark...

All the usual caveats apply to this stock market forecast. [which is to say, this is speculation not prophecy] November could be a tough mon...

MAGA is essentially a coalition of losers from history: those who opposed FDR’s regulation of capital, Lincoln’s shift from tariffs to inco...

In the first year after the outbreak, COVID fatalities in the U.S. occurred at roughly twice the rate of the average OECD country. This sugg...

In the 1800 election between Federalist John Adams and Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson, Pennsylvania was the swing state that tipped ...

The UK's GDP growth per person slowed dramatically from 2.5% to around 0.5% annually following Brexit—a drastic change, largely attribut...

Today, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson won the Nobel Prize in Economics. That pleases me. I’ve mentioned Acemoglu in 20...

  "He’s the kind of guy who’ll pee on your leg and call it trickle-down economics." ** "I'm cooking, Jerome! You said thi...

In the four Gospels, Jesus doesn’t mention abortion or homosexuality—not once. But in three of the four, He gives the same advice to a rich ...

Let's talk nonsense this morning. Or, more specifically, let’s talk about why Trump talks so much nonsense. He does it to distract reaso...

I'm going to make a couple of reckless forecasts for this week. On Wednesday, September 18, Fed Chair Jerome Powell will announce a 50 b...

In America, we use "conservative" in two main ways. One, to describe those who want less government. And two, for those who protec...

In July 2015, during a campaign event in Ames, Iowa, Donald Trump made controversial remarks about John McCain. Trump said, "He's n...

Kamala Harris is a product of a very different immigration policy than the one that came before LBJ and the one that will come after Trump. ...

I don't think that enough is made of the inflation impact of Trump's tariffs. When David Ricardo introduced the concept of comparati...