What Really Matters about Bitcoin
What Really Matters about Bitcoin After Bitcoin hit $10,000, it, at last, seemed to dawn on the mainstream financial press […]
EU’s Taxlandia Game Is Propaganda at Its Finest
Taxlandia Game I’m not a fan of what is sometimes called the “European Project.” Yes, one of the original goals […]
Draining the Swamp Doesn’t Matter as Long as Groupthink Persists
Draining the Swamp Despite the ideological and social divides currently plaguing our culture, one common theme seems to hold across […]
There Is No Such Thing as Poverty in Hong Kong
There Is No Such Thing as Poverty in Hong Kong One of the great injustices of our age is, as […]
Is Health Care a Human Right?
Is Health Care a Human Right? Is there a right to health care? Most libertarians and classical liberals would say […]
Obamacare Mandate Is a Tax, So the Senate Bill Is Correct
Obamacare Mandate The Washington Post is outraged. The New York Times even more so. Commentators are going nuts. “Using a […]
State Coercion Is Intoxicating, Seductive, and Wrong
State Coercion A while ago I met a young religious woman who founded a very successful nonprofit organization all by […]
Occupational Licensing Is Just Another Form of Cronyism
Occupational Licensing Experts in the field of political marketing periodically tell me that you need to have sympathetic victims when […]
Death Tax Needs to Die
Death Tax Needs to Die Since Republicans screwed up Obamacare repeal and haven’t even tried to impose spending restraint, I […]
Meet the Special Interests Keeping Marijuana Criminalized
Special Interests Keeping Marijuana Criminalized In this era of political polarization, when Americans seem to agree on absolutely nothing, let […]
The Left is Stumped for Fresh Tax Reform Ideas
The Left is Stumped for Fresh Tax Reform Ideas On March 30, 1981, the Times of London published a letter […]
Fed Official Decries Bitcoin as ‘Not Backed’
Fed Official Decries Bitcoin as ‘Not Backed’ Randal K. Quarles, a Trump administration appointee to the Federal Reserve Board of […]
Education Needs to Be Uber-ized
Education Needs to Be Uber-ized Uber revolutionized transportation. Airbnb transformed the lodging and short-term rental space. Netflix was pathbreaking in […]
Retail Stores Are Dying and We Should Let Them
Retail Stores Are Dying Last week, the discount shoe retailer Payless ShoeSource filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced it […]
The Secret Billion Dollar Tax You’ve Never Heard About
Secret Billion Dollar Tax Last year, around this time, my father received a notice in the mail from a third-party […]
Thanksgiving Was a Triumph of Capitalism over Collectivism
Thanksgiving This time of the year, whether in good economic times or bad, is when we gather with our family […]