This Quarantine Will Ruin the Economy, Not Save Lives
The U.S. government appears prepared to do whatever it takes to stop COVID-19—but is it prepared to scrub the fallout?
The Constitution Will Not Protect You From the TRACE Act
At this point, it should be painfully clear: We must protect the Constitution.
COVID-19 Proves America Needs Economic Nationalism
The only way for America to be truly prepared for the unknown is for it to be economically independent—to produce enough of everything to survive a global shortage of anything.
COVID-19 Proves that Economists Know Nothing
Not only did economists fail to predict COVID-19—thereby proving that they are blind to the driving forces that shape the economy—but they supported the economic globalization that brought the infection to our shores.
America Has a Long Lever in Trade War With China
If Trump maintains course, then America will win the trade war with China.
America Needs Jobs, Not Chinese Imports
Time and again, reality proves the doomsayers wrong. Tariffs have not increased the cost of living in America.
Tariff Delay Is Trump’s Christmas Gift to China
An administration official says delaying tariffs is a “Christmas present to the nation,” implying Trump's tariffs would have harmed American consumers, and that Trump is doing us a favor by delaying them. This is a mind-blowingly stupid rhetorical gaffe and intellectual concession from an allegedly pro-tariff administration.
How Immigration Made 14 Million Millennials Homeless
Immigration is raising housing prices. The solution is not to further atomize America by encouraging a mass exodus of Millennials from their hometowns in search of cheaper rents. The solution is to cut the immigration rate and enforce existing deportation laws.
Boeing Max 8 Lesson: Why Domestic Manufacturing Is Vital
On March 10, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed outside of Addis Ababa, killing all 157 passengers and crew. This followed October’s crash of Lion Air […]
Free Trade and the ‘Cheap Goods’ Delusion
Between 1348 and 1352 a monstrous plague—the Black Death—ravaged Europe. The disease struck young and old, men and women, saint and sinner alike. Half the […]
Hadrian’s Wisdom: Why America Needs a Wall
Nearly 1,900 years ago, Roman Emperor Hadrian built a great wall across Britain. It was 73 miles long, and divided the Roman province of Britannia […]
America Needs Big, Beautiful Tariffs
Jonah Goldberg writes that President Trump supports tariffs because he is “truly ignorant of some of the most basic” economic principles—or he is “deceiving the […]
The Siren of Universal Basic Income
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Understanding the Democrats’ Vote Alchemy
Legend says a humble French scribe named Nicolas Flamel discovered the philosopher’s stone—the alchemical secret to physical transmutation. To immortality itself. After turning a half-pound […]
Do the Math: Trump’s Wall Is $25 Billion, Illegals Cost $165 Billion
Scott Adams, the creator of the popular cartoon “Dilbert,” transformed himself into a persona non grata in 2016 by exposing how Donald Trump manipulated the […]
Dear Libertarians: Trade Deficits Matter
Steve Hanke recently set out to prove “why President Trump’s trade message and protectionist policies are rubbish” in a Forbes article. Instead, the Johns Hopkins […]
America as O-Ring
On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded. All seven astronauts were killed. Eyewitness Frank Mottek described the scene: Just then we both stood […]
America: China’s Mercantile Resource Colony
China’s economy is now the largest on earth. Its industrial output is triple that of the United States. Its population, quadruple. To make matters worse, […]
GM’s Case Shows the Weakness of ‘Free-Market’ Dogma
General Motors last week announced it would close five manufacturing plants, four in America and one in Canada. President Trump responded to GM by threatening […]
Socialism Is the ‘Leeching’ of Our Time
Published in 1818, Horace Smith’s “Ozymandias” imagines a London long-since abandoned—the English civilization is gone. Collapsed. The city is a new Rome. A half-forgotten memory […]