Get a load of this harmonic convergence example of modern market forces at work…. Beeple’s $69 Million NFT Art Sold …
VIDEO: Revenge on Phone Scammers
Take a look at this video of Mark Rober getting revenge on phone scammers who are defrauding vulnerable seniors out …
Ouch! What Harris/Biden’s Corporate Tax Increase Means for American Competitiveness
by Dan Mitchell Thanks to globalization (as opposed to globalism), jobs and investment are now very mobile. This means the costs of bad policy …
The United Nations and Global Taxation
by Dan Mitchell Last summer, I provided testimony to the United Nations’ High-Level Panel on Financial Accountability Transparency & Integrity. I touched on many …
The GameStop vs Hedge Funds Play Explained
In case you missed this story, which would be difficult as it is all over everything, the Little Guy took …
Why Care About Identity Theft? Here’s why!
This video shows what happens when someone learns the hard way why she should care about her identity. Transcript: Lynn …
Economic Policy: Blue States vs. Red States
by Dan Mitchell I’ve written favorably about the pro-growth policies of low-tax states such as Texas, Florida, and Tennessee, while criticizing the anti-growth policies …
Thomas Sowell on AOC
What’s truly astonishing here is that AOC has been awarded an Economics degree. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is a perfect representation …
Ever wondered how lower tax rates generate more tax? Let Fiscal Libertarian & Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman Explain!
by Dan Mitchell Yesterday’s column featured some of Milton Friedman’s wisdom from 50 years ago on how a high level of societal capital (work ethic, …
The Case for Capitalism, Part III
By Dan Mitchell Part I of this series featured Dan Hannan explaining how the emergence of capitalism led to mass prosperity, while Part …
Principles of Taxation
by Dan Mitchell Two weeks ago, I shared some video from a presentation to the New Economic School of Georgia (the …
A Primer on the Laffer Curve
by Dan Mitchell Last week, I gave a presentation on the Laffer Curve to a seminar organized by the New Economic School in …
Will the virus ever allow the U.S. economy to fully reopen again?
By Robert Romano The U.S. economy contracted a record-setting, inflation-adjusted, annualized 32.9 percent in the second quarter of 2020 according to the latest …
The State With the Greediest Politicians, Part II
by Dan Mitchell Yesterday, in Part I of our series about greedy state politicians, we looked at top income tax rates. The worst …
The State With the Greediest Politicians, Part I
by Dan Mitchell When considering which state has the greediest politicians, the flippant (but understandable) answer is to say “all of them.” …
Where Have All the Coins Gone?
By William J. Luther “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert,” the economist Milton Friedman once quipped, …
Miss free checking accounts? Blame Dodd-Frank, the Durbin amendment and the Fed.
By Robert Romano Remember free checking accounts? In 2009, 76 percent of banks used to offer free checking accounts to their …
Massive Inflation May Be Coming, Because the US Government Has Cornered Itself into a Fiscal End Game
By Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan, FEE Years of deficit spending has made monetary policy a slave to fiscal …
Options trader says COVID-19 market isn’t so bad
Mike Nelson has been trading for years upon years. Though he has never seen anything like COVID-19, he says it …
Deflation is here, and it is a real threat to any economic recovery from the virus
The price of a barrel of oil briefly fell below zero dollars this week, demonstrating clearly what happens when there is no …
The fastest-growing cities in the U.S.
Recently released data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that population growth in the U.S. has reached its lowest level …
Five Threats to China’s Prosperity
s obviously is bad news, but I repeated my long-held view in this interview that excessive government intervention is the greatest threat to China’s …
Taxes Will Be a Royal Pain for Meghan and Harry
I’m part of the small minority that thinks the big news from the United Kingdom is that “Brexit” will finally …
New York vs. Florida, Round #3
I looked last year at how Florida was out-competing New York in the battle to attract successful taxpayers, and then followed up …
2020 Copyright expirations!
Check out this page for more details. But expect to hear a lot of versions of George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in …
How to protect your most valuable asset
How to pick the right homeowners insurance (BPT) – If you’re like many Americans, your home may be your most …
America’s Best and Worst States for Taxes (and therefore Jobs)
Following their recent assessment of the best and worst countries, the Tax Foundation has published its annual State Business Tax Climate Index, which …
America’s Record Middle-Class Earnings Exposes the ‘Imaginary Hobgoblin’ of Income Inequality
Americans are, by and large, more prosperous than they’ve ever been without being noticeably less equal. The Census Bureau released …
VIDEO: Jury refuses to convict man who won’t pay taxes
An Oregon jury deadlocked on whether to convict a Christian man who hasn’t paid taxes in 20 years, resulting in …
Talking Point: Bring back bankruptcy for college debt
For generations, the Republican Party has struggled with the youth vote and much time has been devoted to hand-wringing over …