A collection of 60 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.
Zohran Mamdani wants to institute “collectivist” governance, but NYC already has a collectivist problem—a coordinated veto system that blocks development and progress.
We need to cultivate an appreciation for the abundance that modernity has bestowed instead of taking it for granted.
Instead of building nuclear, the Australian government is betting on the importance of ‘green energy’ with a foolhardy subsidy scheme that will be difficult to dismantle if it proves economically disastrous.
Wokeness has not retreated—it has simply shapeshifted.
New mining frontiers are opening up in Greenland, Brazil, Tanzania, and Australia. In no time at all, historically speaking, Beijing’s advantage will disappear. That is a relief, but it is also a concern.
This won’t be Great Depression 2.0. But this trade war will cost America and the world many innovations and great prosperity.
How a house pricing guarantee could encourage homeowners to accept higher-density neighbourhoods.
Liberal democracies need to restore a climate of entrepreneurial opportunity and competition.
The neoliberal turn was a pragmatic response to failed economic intervention and yielded broadly positive results.
Its ability to churn out plausible sounding explanations for historical and social phenomena is part of Marxism’s core appeal. But its grand theoretical framework simply does not hold up.
President Trump’s protectionist policies are erratic, ill-defined, and incoherent.
Glenn Loury’s startlingly frank confessional memoir offers a complex portrait of a brilliant scholar and a profoundly flawed man.
Western societies stand on the brink of a great reversion towards a demographically and economically stagnant society reminiscent of the Dark Ages.
The Spanish tradition of limited government is older than the Magna Carta. Argentina will do well to revive it.