The Kansas Experiment is Over. Kansas Lost
Every year, right after the April 15 tax deadline, the U.S. Census releases its data on the prior year’s state tax collections. It is...
1.4% Price Rise Gets Wal-Mart Off Welfare
Te question I keep asking (here, here and here) is why are taxpayers subsidizing a giant, private, profitable company? The video goes...
Gay Discrimination Is A Billion Dollar Self-Indulgence
By now, you have surely heard about Indiana’s so-called Religious Freedom Restoration Act and its potential for giving cover to those...
Interest Rates Aren’t Going Anywhere . . .
Source: BAML, Fiscal Times I have been fairly agnostic on several issues related to where interest rates are heading. It...
More Long Bonds Now!
Every once in a while, there is a way to resolve a host of problems that is so obvious it gets overlooked. With that in mind, and in...
Time for Janet Yellen to Go On the Ellen DeGeneres Show
This week, the NBC/Wall Street Journal poll on presidential contenders for 2016 came out. It was the usual sort of thing: Favorable...
John Oliver on Infrastructure
America’s crumbling infrastructure: It’s not a sexy problem, but it is a scary one. Follow us on Twitter for news about jokes and...