by Henry Oliner | Oct 29, 2017 | Economics
from Gene Epstein’s departing column at Barron’s- Keep Asking the Big Questions: Compared to what? At what cost? Who pays? And, what happens next? It’s the responsibility of economists to ask and answer questions like these—and the job of economics...
by Henry Oliner | Sep 17, 2017 | Economics
From Thomas Donlan At Barron’s, Trump’s CEOs: In the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time (I like the title in the print edition better, There’s No Profit in Politics) Business executives as a group rarely show the kind of sophistication that the nation needs in...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 6, 2017 | Culture, Democrats
How the Democrats Lost the White Working Class- Book review of White Working Class by Joan Williams- reviewed by Joe Queenan in Barron’s: “The working class…has been asked to swallow a lot of economic pain, while elites have focused on noneconomic issues,”...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 6, 2017 | Business, Economics
from Barron’s and Randall Forsyth, Is It Time to Return to Active Stock-Picking? What’s needed, say some outspoken active investors, is a return to old-fashioned Houseman–Smith Barney securities selection, rather than the tide of passive investing washing over...
by Henry Oliner | Jul 12, 2017 | Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Progressivism, Taxes
from Thomas Donlan at Barron’s, What Went Wrong in Kansas Americans want government like they want services generally: “faster, better, and cheaper.” But economists know there’s a problem: The optimistic ones say, “Pick any two”; the pessimists say, “Choose...
