Natural Gas and American Left-Populism
The possible shortages—not metaphorical, but literal shortages—of natural gas and electricity this winter in New England are the product of...
Free Markets
Crypto regulation bleg
The standard textbook approach to regulation is that free markets are generally best except for cases of “market failure”. Frequently...
Thoughts on the neoliberal wave
There have been some recent retrospectives on the neoliberal wave that swept the world in the final quarter of the...
Hong Kong and John Cowperthwaite
Hong Kong has shown the economic growth potential of a free economy. The 2017 Economist review of a book by...
A tiger by the tail
Comments after my post asking for libertarian monetary ideas mostly focused on the question of what it means to abolish...
Socialists’ Claims About Capitalism 3
Behavioral economists have proven that humans are irrational. All market economics is predicated on two assumptions that are false: Humans...
It’s the stupidity, stupid
Over the past decade, I’ve felt like the world has become much dumber. Political decay once associated with a few...
Should we have free trade in a dangerous world?
Yes, with a very few exceptions. Every time there is a war, we see a predictable chorus of pundits calling...
Is the US government causing the chip shortage?
There’s a lot of discussion about how the computer chip shortage is causing problems for US manufacturers. But I rarely...
Different Shades of Red
A commenter to one of my recent posts blamed me forcefully for suggesting that wokism and fascism “are not so...
