A review of Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley.
The true believers soaked up Trump’s magnetism and left with a glow that the election will be his (and theirs). The failures of past candidates and the unwieldy intransigence of government bureaucracy are completely forgotten.
The Federal Reserve is giving us a choice – work forever, or make sure to die before running out of money.
The conventions of both political parties are a show worth seeing. I love to watch the carnivals of buncombe, but from a safe distance.
The worst feature of the Fed is that it does what it was designed to do: bail out losers.
The federal government has two million employees, most of whom a president can’t fire. And that’s not the half of it. “Post-1960 Federal America has become a grotesque Leviathan by proxy, in which an expanding mass of state and local government workers, for-profit contractors, and nonprofit grant recipients administers a vast portion of federal money and responsibilities,” writes John J.DiIulio Jr. for the Washington Post.
If Republican voters think a Trump presidency will be four to eight years of “The Apprentice” on steroids, with Trump telling those who disobey or slack off “You’re fired,” they are as delusional as their hero.
Government Arts Funding and Amazon's "Mozart in the Jungle"
Donald Trump Would Have Had Me Dead
It is simply amazing to have a university department that is filled with such brilliant and talented expositors of free market economics.
Jim Grant chronicles how the market works marvels if left alone.
The European Central Bank is trying to force a negative value upon time itself.
Controversy over high-frequency trading is just a distraction from the cultural effects of inflation.
A new study from Pro Teck Valuation Services provides empirical support for Austrian economists’ claims that markets will recover more quickly absent government meddling.
Minimum-wage initiatives are political winners, but their popularity has little to do with an understanding of economics.
The dominant narrative about the 2008 crash focuses anger on Wall Street, said to be the heart of capitalism, as the culprit. It's neither; government intrusion has shaped the housing market and our cities for decades.
Benn Steil's account of the people and personalities at the heart of the Bretton Woods conference makes for fascinating reading, even if you're not a history buff or economics geek.
Economic power followed the population to the coasts and the sand states during the boom. In the wake of the bust and interventions along the coasts, "flyover country" is becoming the source of America's economic growth.
Lawmakers portray SBA lending as a boost for small businesses. The program is actually a form of corporate welfare for some of America’s largest banks. While banks reap profits, taxpayers cover the losses.
Though banks are raking in record profits, the banking business as a whole remains highly leveraged and highly risky, according to The Bankers' New Clothes.
Dorm room construction is booming even as people are realizing that college is overpriced—and taking more free and distance-learning courses. Douglas French sees another bubble.
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