by Henry Oliner | Mar 30, 2017 | Economics, Politics, Taxes
Another gem from Kevin Williamson at National Review, Bad Medicine on ‘Carried Interest’ Nobody in Washington wants to face that particular angry mob of IRA investors with torches and pitchforks. What we are talking about is singling out a particular class of...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 27, 2017 | Health Care, Politics
The depth of the loss is probably exaggerated. It is still very early in the term of this administration and the humiliation will subside. Still, there are some harsh lessons that should be learned . President Trump may have found the limits of bluster. When it...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 27, 2017 | Economics
from Kevin Williamson in National Review, The Social Machine: The people who have an explicit legal obligation to work not on our behalf but on behalf of their shareholders do a pretty good job of giving us what we want; the people who vow to work on our behalf do...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 25, 2017 | Politics, Progressivism
A gem from Kevin Williamson at National Review, Fake Hate Crimes: The Left desperately wants Americans to be indecent people who go around attacking Muslims and foreigners with funny names, but, by and large, we aren’t. Campus feminists desperately want “rape culture”...
by Henry Oliner | Mar 24, 2017 | Media
Pollster Nate Silver wrote a series of analysis on the polling and data pertaining the recent election. The most recent is There Really Was A Liberal Media Bubble: I recently reread James Surowiecki’s book “The Wisdom of Crowds” which, despite its name, spends as...
