Top Down Capitalism

A Review of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible by Peter Pomerantsev. The review is by Karen Dawish for the Wall Street Journal. excerpts: This is not a state in transition, Mr. Pomerantsev argues, but a postmodern dictatorship that

The Modern Source of Abusive Power

Dec. 07, 2014

From The National Review George Will writes Government for the Strongest and Richest Intellectually undemanding progressives, excited by the likes of Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) — advocate of the downtrodden and the Export-Import Bank — have at last noticed

Getting Beyond Race

Dec. 07, 2014

In The National Review Kevin Williamson writes With Landrieu’s Loss, the End of an Epoch Excerpts: Naturally, this will be seized upon as an opportunity to proclaim the grapes sour: The Democrats, being intellectually dishonest, cling to the myth that

Great Investment Advice

Dec. 07, 2014

16 Rules for Investors to Live By by Morgan Housel in The Wall Street Journal. my 3 favorites: (all are worthy and valuable tips) Most bubbles begin with a rational idea that gets taken to an irrational extreme. Dot-com companies

When Morality Meets Power

Dec. 06, 2014

From National Review Matthew Continetti writes Liberalism is a Hoax. Excerpts: It is sometimes difficult to understand that, for the Left, racism and sexism and prejudice are not ethical categories but political ones. We are not merely talking about bad

Boycotting Las Vegas

Dec. 06, 2014

Apparently there is a problem in Las Vegas with cabbies intentionally taking long routes in order to overcharge. This article explains the various Rube Goldberg schemes the government has regulated to try and control this practice. As you would expect,

Is Inequality a Problem?

Dec. 04, 2014

University of Chicago economist John Cochrane has written one of the most unique and insightful perspectives on inequality in his blog, The Grumpy Economist. Read Why and how we care about inequality in its entirety. It is about 6 pages long.

The Mask of Obamacare

Dec. 02, 2014

Victor Davis Hanson writes in The National Review, Liberalism in Ruins Excerpts: Obamacare was, in the end, little more than a clumsy effort to take over the health-care system by redistributing resources from the supposedly too-well-off to the more noble

Politically Useful Lives

Dec. 02, 2014

from Kevin Williamson in National Review, Black Lives Matter Excerpt: The reality is this: Black men, especially young black men, die violent deaths at appalling rates in these United States. But they do not die very often at the hands

A Lack Of Imagination

Dec. 01, 2014

From Today’s American Thinker, my article Uber Libertarians Excerpt: There are similar commercial communities among iPhone users, Amazon customers, and other enterprises. Such modern businesses scale up remarkably fast, creating huge commercial communities, quickly threatening the regulatory agencies, and empowering

Blind to Satisfaction

Nov. 30, 2014

From The Fiscal Times, Ed Morrissey writes How Obama Marginalized the Democratic Party Excerpt: The admission didn’t surprise Obamacare opponents, though. Those opposed to Obamacare since its inception know that Schumer offered no arguments that hadn’t been made repeatedly during

Rolex and Timex

Nov. 30, 2014

Kevin Williamson writes in National Review, Who Boycotts Walmart Excerpts: It is easy to scoff, but I am ready to start taking the social-justice warriors’ insipid rhetoric seriously — as soon as two things happen: First, I want to hear

When All Else Fails….

Nov. 26, 2014

from Scott Grannis at The Calafia Beach Pundit, Why the Global Gloom: excerpt: Despite all the gloom out there, and despite all the disappointment, there is reason to be optimistic. If we’ve learned anything in the current recovery it’s that 1)

A Parabolic Tax Curve

Nov. 26, 2014

From Mark Perry at his AEI- Carpe Diem Blog, Top 400 taxpayers paid almost as much in federal income taxes in 2010 as the entire bottom 50% Early last year Obama reiterated his belief that the wealthiest Americans still aren’t paying

The Uber Factor

Nov. 26, 2014

I flew into Houston Hobby Airport a few days ago, touched the Uber App (i had set up some time ago). I put in the destination and It said there was a ride two minutes away. I learned that even

The Bigger Benghazi Question

Nov. 25, 2014

From The American Interest, The Case for More Congress In American Foreign Policy, by Walter Russell Mead: Excerpt: At the same time, with our Libyan policy, like the country itself, in ruins, one has the sense that the Benghazi investigation

A Harsh Political Lesson

Nov. 25, 2014

Chuck Schumer lays a harsh and accurate assessment on his fellow Democrats. From The Wall Street Journal, Schumer’s ObamaCare Mea Culpa (link may require a subscription) excerpt: The Senator called the law a distraction from the “middle-class-oriented programs” his party should

Insulated Decisions

Nov. 25, 2014

From John Cochrane, The Grumpy Economist, Behavioral Political Economy excerpt: People do dumb things, in somewhat predictable ways. It follows that super-rational aliens or divine guidance could make better choices for people than they often make for themselves. But how

Predicting Nothing

Nov. 25, 2014

From American Thinker, Anthropogenic Global Warming and the Scientific Method by Betsy Gorisch excerpts: Science is about ruling things out. Any good scientific hypothesis will make predictions about the natural world — ideally, it will predict at least one natural

Inequality and The Tax Reform of 1986

Nov. 22, 2014

In The Wall Street Journal Phil Gramm and Michael Solon write How to Distort Income Inequality- The Piketty-Saez data ignore changes in tax law and fail to count noncash compensation and Social Security benefits. excerpt: Messrs. Piketty and Saez also did

Yearly Archives: 2014

Top Down Capitalism

The Modern Source of Abusive Power

Getting Beyond Race

Great Investment Advice

When Morality Meets Power

Boycotting Las Vegas

Is Inequality a Problem?

The Mask of Obamacare

Politically Useful Lives

A Lack Of Imagination

Blind to Satisfaction

Rolex and Timex

When All Else Fails….

A Parabolic Tax Curve

The Uber Factor

The Bigger Benghazi Question

A Harsh Political Lesson

Insulated Decisions

Predicting Nothing

Inequality and The Tax Reform of 1986

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