We need to end the Fed. The Federal Reserve makes interest rates artificially low to encourage lending. This is popular in the short term because people can buy more stuff, but it inevitably leads to massive bubbles.

The last Republican president to not add to the national debt was Calvin Coolidge. The last Republican president to balance the federal budget was Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1960 and the last Republican Congress to do so was in 2001. Over the last 50 years, Republicans have largely failed at…

The Offer Statement: I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy. However, since making my investment I now realize the company will neither thrive…

Nuance matters. Economists generally support immigration, but to be a nation requires borders so there’s clearly some level at which we should limit foreigners. This doesn’t make one a xenophobe. Economists generally oppose tariffs, but to be a nation requires borders so there’s clearly some level at which we should…

Will Smith Goes From Violence As a First Resort to “No Place for Violence” — Sensitive <=> Stoic Chris Rock may not have known about Jada Smith’s hair loss, but it’s generally frowned upon to make fun of someone’s medical problems. Will Smith reflectively laughed, but he got angry when he saw how it hurt his wife’s feelings. We live in a snowflake culture where celebrities in particular…

Biden’s Late, Incoherent Reaction to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Highlights the Incompetence of Our State Department — Putin wants to restore the Russian empire, which means keeping Ukraine close. Our kinship has been transmitted from generation to generation. It is in the hearts and the memory of people living in modern Russia and Ukraine, in the blood ties that unite millions of our families. Together we have…

The free market creates prosperity. It makes things cheaper and better. But some people can’t even afford “cheap” so in the richest country in human history should We the People just let struggling individuals go without basic necessities like food, healthcare, and housing? If your answer is “yes” well then…

NYT Destroys Nurses, Patients, and Hospitals to Make Massive Profit — Transcript (1/2) America is facing a national nursing shortage. The biggest force that’s driving nurses away: greedy hospitals. To maximize profits, American hospitals have been intentionally understaffing nurses for decades, long before the pandemic. What the hospital industry doesn’t want you to know is that there’s never been more licensed nurses…

Democrats are usually the first to blame America’s problems on education. But this means they’re primarily blaming themselves because they have a virtual monopoly over education. According to FEC data, 87% of high school teachers and 90% of professors are Democrats. Since 1980, the teachers’ unions (NEA and AFT) have…