A collection of 18 posts
Trump’s assault on the Federal Reserve demands a structural solution: rules-based monetary policy that protects central bank independence whilst delivering better economic results.
The Chinese economy is a picture of mismanagement, wasted opportunities, and decline.
An interview with Francis Fukuyama.
A critical part of the One Big Beautiful Bill’s budget equation may evaporate with a judicial pen stroke in the very near future.
In ‘Hegemony,’ board-gamers take on the role of wage workers and plutocrats fighting for societal supremacy.
A combination of activism and evolved cognitive bias results in suboptimal social and economic policies.
The Trump administration has a NatCon economics problem.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with Washington Post columnist and TED Talker Megan McArdle about the short-term pain—and long-term gain—heralded by the AI revolution.
Populist rhetoric and the hidden costs of economic illiteracy.
Iona Italia talks to John H. Cochrane aka "The Grumpy Economist" about the motivations, effects and implications of Donald Trump's economic policies.
Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay speaks with The Line editor Jen Gerson about how US President Donald Trump’s tariff threats have affected Canada’s already fractured political landscape.
Many Canadian conservatives were warming to Donald Trump—until he threatened to destroy their economy with crippling tariffs.
Western innovation is the most effective foreign aid programme ever discovered.
The Spanish tradition of limited government is older than the Magna Carta. Argentina will do well to revive it.
His political ascent was meteoric, but classical liberalism has a storied history in Argentina.