GOP Seeks to Consolidate Gains, Build Party Loyalty
Just in time for tonight’s GOP debate, comes this 1985 piece looking at the major political realignment that took place. I suspect...
What Do Donald Trump and Markets have in Common?
Christmas came early this year, and my present is: Donald J. Trump, who has given us all a delightful graduate level course in...
God Isn’t Fixing This
Amazing: The Daily News calls out various hypocritical politicians as “Cowards” for their nonsensical platitudes: ...
Attention Forecasters: STFU!
Would you let a mystic manage your investment portfolio? Washington Post, November 28, 2015 “Forecasting...
Congress Funds Infrastructure the Dumbest Way Possible
Writing in Fortune in January 2004, my View colleague Justin Fox wrote that the Interstate System… “was heralded as the...
Global Financial Literacy
This chart and the accompanying discussion is amazing: Financial knowledge seems to be gained only through pain and bad...
Seattle. Chicago. Los Angeles. Min Wage Lies Travel.
@TBPInvictus here The AEI’s Mark Perry has taken his nonsense – his Lies About Geography and Minimum Wage Tour – on...
A Brief Word to Forecasters: STFU!
My Sunday Washington Post Business Section column is out. This morning, we look at the annual forecasting foolishness so...
AEI Dissembling Continues Apace on Seattle Min Wage
@TBPInvictus here The City of Seattle’s minimum wage is now $11, going up to $15 for some employers by 2020. Mark Perry has posted...
Lying About Geography and Minimum Wage
@TBPInvictus here As those who have been following along already know, Seattle has been ground zero for the minimum wage battle, having...