John Tamny

There will be no Social Security benefit cuts in 2032. For former congressman and longtime budget scold Tim Penny to say otherwise is not only unoriginal, but also dishonest. And that’s not a...

In a profits and loss sense, a mutual insurance company is a fiction. That’s because the policyholders are the company. Which is a crucial distinction, one that recalls a famous...

Higher market prices are not inflation. To correlate the former with the latter is to pervert the meaning of inflation. See the headline to this opinion piece. A room at a New York City Courtyard by M

Unless economics is no longer about tradeoffs, a soaring market price must show up in much lower prices elsewhere in the economy, and vice versa.

If prediction markets are disallowed in Utah, its business owners will be reduced to gambling on weather’s vagaries.

The Federal Reserve does not set interest rates. If it did, the U.S. economy would be desperately depressed and the Fed’s actions not worth talking or writing about. More realistically,...

Tech genius in the U.S. and China formerly combined on the path to remarkable technological leaps, leaps that would result in faster progress and pay.

“Genesis Digital was ‘one of Bankman-Fried’s most reckless investments.’” That's from the Wall Street Journal, in an article citing the views of the bankruptcy team that...

Thank goodness Jeff Bezos was born in 1964, instead of 1864. If born 100 years earlier, his genius most likely wouldn’t have been felt much beyond the city or town in which he was born. Which...

National security is incredibly expensive, and by extension an effect of a strong and growing economy.

Data centers will do more to enhance global peace than any weapon, treaty, or statesman could ever hope to. A walk of even a tiny portion of one would confirm the previous truth to even the most...

On February 14, 2011, Uber sold 20% of itself to Benchmark Capital for $11 million. Uber is presently worth $136 billion, yet it handed over 20 percent of itself for $11 million? Why didn’t its...

The cost of a bad client well exceeds any near-term gains from that same client.

Yet another reminder that monetarism doesn't reject Keynesianism and the Phillips Curve, rather it's a variation of both discredited economic notions.

Money changing hands at rising speeds is a sign that production, which is an expression of a desire to get, is increasing.

Curo Churata stopped at Home Depot ahead of going to work on June 27th. The decision proved fatal.  Such is life for illegal immigrants nowadays. Since work is presently criminalized for those...

Tax, regulatory, tariff, and climate policy from the U.S. all sit downstream from what happens in Texas elections, and what they signal about future Texas voting habits.

History books will exonerate Joe Biden for so-called “Bidenflation.” And that’s not a defense of Biden. Instead, it’s a defense of the meaning of inflation. For background, we...

New Mexico’s $25 billion judgement against Meta is an obnoxious shakedown of the Menlo Park, CA technology giant. But that’s shooting fish in the most crowded of barrels. So, while the...

What if Elizabeth Holmes was Eric Holmes? And what if Eric Holmes had raised $15 million for Theranos instead of the $700 million+ that Elizabeth Holmes reportedly raised? About the question,...