1. Central Banking and Monetary Policy
- (Jan 2018) The Late Robert Wenzel: An Austrian Addresses the New York Federal Reserve (3 min read)
- (Sep 2017) The End of Canada's Zero Interest Rate Policy (2 min read)
----------
- (Sep 2019) A Primer on Negative Interest Rates Part 1 (5 min read)
- (Oct 2019) A Primer on Negative Interest Rates Part 2 (6 min read)
- (Oct 2019) Addendum to a Primer on Negative Interest Rates Part 2: Greek Short-Term Debt Incredulously Auctions at Negative Yields (1 min read)
- (Oct 2019) A Primer on Negative Interest Rates Part 3: The War on Cash (8 min read)
- (Nov 2019) Epilogue to a Primer on Negative Interest Rates: Europe Doesn't Need Negative Interest Rates. Just Ask the Beautiful PIIG (6 min read)
----------
- (Apr 2020) Explaining the Federal Reserve's Coronavirus Policy Response Part 1 (8 min read)
- (Apr 2020) Explaining the Federal Reserve's Coronavirus Policy Response Part 2: Domestic Liquidity (4 min read)
- (Apr 2020) Explaining the Federal Reserve's Coronavirus Policy Response Part 3: International Liquidity (4 min read)
- (Apr 2020) Explaining the Federal Reserve's Coronavirus Policy Response Part 4: A Primer on Inflation (5 min read)
- (Apr 2020) Explaining the Federal Reserve's Coronavirus Policy Response Part 5: Is Runaway Inflation Inevitable? (6 min read)
- (Jun 2020) Fed Coronavirus Policy Inflation Followup: CPI Falls for Third Consecutive Month (2 min read)
----------
- (Jul 2020) Once Again The New York Times Proves it's Clueless About the Gold Standard (8 min read)
- (Aug 2020) Congressional Democrats Propose Third Fed Policy Mandate: Fixing Racial Income Inequality (1 min read)
- (Aug 2020) Postscript to the New York Times' Critique of the Gold Standard: Banking Stability Under Fiat vs Gold (2 min read)
- (Sep 2020) Q2 Velocity Declines A Record 26.5% and Medium-Term Prospects for Hyperinflation (Wonkish)
- (Sep 2020) Long Term Inflation Or How Governments Will Never Pay Their National Debts Back Honestly (6 min read)
- (Sep 2021) An Analysis Of How We Got To Today's Inflation Problems (7 min read)
- (Oct 2021) Rising Inflation and Just One Possible Alternative Theory to "Supply Chain Issues" (1 min read)
- (Nov 2021) Opposition to Comrade Omarova's OCC Comptroller Nomination: "Just Three Democrats?"
- (Jan 2022) Someone Took Away The Fed's Snooze Button, Now It Might Cause an Accident Rushing Late to Work (3 min read)
- (Feb 2022) Red Scare McCarthyism”—A Saule Omarova Postmortem (8 min read)
- (Jun 2022) In 108 Years the Fed is Zero-for-Eight Stopping 5%+ Inflation Without Recession (4 min read)
- (Jul 2022) "Fool in the Shower:" Milton Friedman's Caricature of Bad Central Bankers (1 min read)
- (Jul 2022) More Tightening Pressure on the Fed After Bank of Canada 100 bp Hike
- (Aug 2022) Bank of England Tightens, Warns of Long Recession (2 in read)
- (Aug 2022) Peter Schiff Makes a Good Point About Fed Inflation Targeting
- (Aug 2022) Surprise: Stanford's John Taylor Confident 5% Fed Funds Enough to Bring Inflation Down to 2%
- (Sep 2022) Keynes Would Oppose the Fed's Next Rate Hike (1 min read)
- (Sep 2022) Floors vs Corridors: Just How Does the Fed Set Interest Rates? (8 min read)
- (Dec 2022) The Fed Makes Progress on Monetary Inflation, Faces a New Problem (4 min read)
- (Jan 2023) Even Yellen Has Limits, Opposes Trillion Dollar Coin Idea Again (2 min read)
- (Mar 2023) When You’re a Regulation Hammer Every Problem Looks Like a Nail (7 min read)
- (Mar 2023) Quotes on SVB: A Regulatory of Supervisory Failure?
- (Apr 2023) Janet Yellen: Trump Cut Eighteen Jobs At Treasury! (5 min read)
- (Apr 2023) If You Think SVB Was Undiversified, Just Look at America's First 150 Years (5 min read)
- (Apr 2023) U.S. Banks With Largest Held-to-Maturity Losses
- (Apr 2023) First Republic and George Selgin on Bank Runs
- (May 2023) Now California's Bank Regulator Says They Also Dropped the Ball on Silicon Valley Bank
- (July 2023) Fed's Interest on Reserves Payments Swell to $160 Billion in 2023 (2 min read)
- (Sep 2023) Fed Interest on Reserves Payments Rose to $44 Billion in Q2 Alone
- (Oct 2023) Next-Level TDS: Blaming Trump for Obama/Biden Fed Appointees
- (Oct 2023) MMT Objections to MMT Objectors (6 min read)
- (Feb 2024) Now That the Fed is Technically Insolvent...
- Lessons from the Great Depression: What Really Started the Great Depression? (Part 1 - 10 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: What Really Started the Great Depression? (Part 2 - 10 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: What Really Started the Great Depression? (Part 3 - 10 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve System (Part 1 - 9 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve System (Part 2 - 12 min read)
- A Quick Footnote: Friedman and Schwartz on Gold Inflows in the Early 1930's (1 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve System (Part 3 - 7 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve System (Part 4 - 10 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Government Stimulus Spending Made Things a Lot Worse (10 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Taxes (6 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Wages (Part 1 - 11 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Wages (Part 2 - 11 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Trade, Protectionism, and The Smoot-Hawley Tariff (Part 1 - 11 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Trade, Protectionism, and The Smoot-Hawley Tariff (Part 2 - 8 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Trade, Protectionism, and The Smoot-Hawley Tariff (Part 3 - 7 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Agriculture (12 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: Economic Policy in Nazi Germany - "Socialist" or "Capitalist?" (8 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: What Really Ended the Great Depression? (Part 1 - 4 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: What Really Ended the Great Depression? (Part 2 - 6 min read)
- Lessons from the Great Depression: What Really Ended the Great Depression? (Part 3 - 7 min read).
3. Free vs Regulated Banking
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Introduction and Orthodoxy (3 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: British Parliament and the Bank of England (Part 1 - 7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: British Parliament and the Bank of England (Part 2 - 6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: British Parliament and the Bank of England (Part 3 - 5 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking—Addendum to a History of the Bank of England: Do Modern Central Bankers Really Abide By Bagehot’s Dictum? (8 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Scotland's Free Banking Era (Part 1 - 7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Scotland's Free Banking Era (Part 2 - 6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Scotland's Free Banking Era (Part 3 - 6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Scotland's Free Banking Era (Part 4 - 5 min read)
----------
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Introduction to the United States vs Canada (3 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The United States—Crippled by Unit Bank Regulations (Part 1 - 7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The United States—Crippled by Unit Bank Regulations (Part 2 - 8 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The United States—Crippled by Unit Bank Regulations (Part 3 - 6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The First Bank of the United States (Part 1 - 5 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The First Bank of the United States and the Revolutionary War Debt (Part 2 - 6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The First Bank of the United States and the Panic of 1792 (Part 3 - 7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The First Bank of the United States and the Panic of 1797 (Part 4 - 8 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The Second Bank of the United States and the Panic of 1819 (Part 1 - 5 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The Second Bank of the United States and the Panic of 1819 (Part 2 - 6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Andrew Jackson, Nicholas Biddle, and The Bank War (6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The American Panic of 1837 (8 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The American "Free Banking Era" of 1837-1862 (7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The U.S. National Banking System of 1863-1914 (Part 1 - 7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The U.S. National Banking System of 1863-1914 (Part 2 - 7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The U.S. National Banking System and the Panic of 1893 (7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: The Panic of 1893 Puts One Banker Conspiracy Theory to Rest (3 min read)
---------
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Canada's Free Banking Era - A Brief History of Canadian Banking (6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Canada's Free Banking Era - Deregulation and Stability (7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Canada’s Free Banking Era - Did Canadian Free Banking Have Any Regulations? (Part 1 - 5 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Canada’s Free Banking Era - Did Canadian Free Banking Have Any Regulations? (Part 2 - 6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Canada's Free Banking Era - Modern Day Criticism and the Post-Keynesian School (Part 1 - 6 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Canada's Free Banking Era - Modern Day Criticism and the Post-Keynesian School (Part 2 - 10 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Canada's Free Banking Era - Modern Day Praise and Disagreement (8 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Canada's Free Banking Era - Why Was the Bank of Canada Established? (5 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Canada’s Post-1935 Success and the USA’s Failures (8 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: What Does SVB's Collapse Tell Us About Depositor Losses During Canadian Free Banking? (7 min read)
- Free vs Regulated Banking: Did Canada's Glass-Steagall Safeguard its Banks in 2008? (8 min read)
- "Free Versus Regulated Banking" now in paperback on Amazon
4. Inflation and the Global Reserve Dollar
- A Primer on Reserve Currencies and the Global Reserve Dollar Part 1 (4 min read)
- A Primer on Reserve Currencies and the Global Reserve Dollar Part 2 (5 min read)
- A Primer on Reserve Currencies and the Global Reserve Dollar Part 3 (7 min read)
- A Primer on Reserve Currencies and the Global Reserve Dollar Part 4 (7 min read)
---------
- Inflation and Deflation Fallacies Part 1: "An Overheating Economy Stokes Inflation" (5 min read)
- Inflation and Deflation Fallacies Part 2: "Deflation Plunges Economies Into Depression" (5 min read)
- Inflation and Deflation Fallacies Part 3: Why So Many Economists Get Deflation Wrong (4/6 min read)
- Inflation and Deflation Fallacies Part 4: "My Grocery Bill Went Up Which Proves the Country Is Experiencing Inflation" (4 min read)
- Inflation and Deflation Fallacies Part 5: "Cost-Push," "Demand-Pull," "Wage-Pressures," and a Host of Other Official Excuses for Inflation, Part 1 of 2 (5 min read)
- Inflation and Deflation Fallacies Part 6: "Cost-Push," "Demand-Pull," "Wage-Pressures," and a Host of Other Official Excuses for Inflation, Part 2 of 2 (6 min read)
----------
- (Dec 2020) An Inflationary Critique of MMT (7 min read)
- (May 2021) Venezuela Launches One Million (But Really 100 Trillion) Bolivar Banknote (4 min read)
- (Dec 2021) ASU's Jonathon Barth on Inflation: "It's the Fed, Stupid"
- (Dec 2021) Note to Cable News: Inflation is not Caused by Economic Growth (2 min read)
- (Feb 2022) MMT's Stephanie Kelton: "MMT'ers never said to fight inflation with tax hikes."
- (Apr 2022) Anyone Noticed How Quiet MMT'ers Have Gotten Now That Inflation is at 8.5%?
- (May 2022) High Gas Prices Not Driving 8.5% Inflation Today, Have Never Driven High Inflation in U.S. History (7 min read)
- (May 2022) Progressives Argue Central Banks Not to Blame for Global Inflation: "Are Other Countries Printing Money Too?" (1 min read)
- (May 2022) A Little Inflation Math: Your IRS Tax Refund
- (May 2022) A Little More Inflation Math: $5 Trillion Deficits and a $100 Trillion National Debt in 25 Years
- (May 2022) Washington Post Covers for the Fed's Inflation (again)
- (Jun 2022) Fed Reports Median U.S. Home Price Reaches $428,700 (Can't Imagine the Cause)
- (Jul 2022) A List of America's Past Inflation Bouts: 1690-1983 (7 min read)
- (Sep 2022) CNBC/Bloomberg Also Don't Understand: High Oil Prices Don't Cause Inflation (2 min read)
- (Sep 2022) Biden Proven Wrong on Inflation (Again): Oil Prices Are Down but CPI Hasn't Fallen (1 min read)
- (Oct 2022) A Brief History of the British Pound's Decline (4 min read)
- (Dec 2022) Janet Yellen Blames American Public for Inflation
- (Feb 2023) Stubborn PCE: What is "Sticky Inflation?" (3 min read)
- (Apr 2023) Future Prospects for the Global Reserve Dollar, Part 1: The Chinese Yuan is Still Not About to Replace the Dollar (5 min read)
- (May 2023) Future Prospects for the Global Reserve Dollar, Part 2: Military Power and the Petrodollar (6 min read)
- (May 2023) Future Prospects for the Global Reserve Dollar, Part 3: A Gold-Backed BRICS Currency (8 min read)
- (May 2023) Future Prospects for the Global Reserve Dollar, Part 4: Longer Term for the Dollar and the RMB (6 min read)
- (May 2023) Rising Monetary Velocity Continues to Frustrate the Fed
- (July 2023) The Fed vs The Roman Empire's Debasement of the Denarius (3 min read)
- (Aug 2023) BRICS Summit Ends With No Common Currency Agreement
- (Dec 2023) Biden Confuses Lower Inflation With Lower Prices
- (Feb 2024) Two Years Later: The Ruble was Never "Gold-Backed" and Hasn't Replaced the Dollar
- (Feb 2024) Back From The Dead (Again): Bitcoin Breaks $57,000
5. Keynesianism and Keynesians
6. Socialism and Communism
13. International Trade
14. Energy
15. Economic History Articles
17. African Aid
19. Small Bites, LOL's, and Miscellaneous
- (Jul 2019) No Paul Krugman, Red States Aren't Moochers and Your Math is Just Awful (6 min read)
- (Dec 2019) Paul Krugman gets Ireland as Perfectly Wrong as Humanly Possible (2 min read)
- (Jul 2018) Paul Krugman on March 1, 2017: We Can't Achieve [Trump's goal of] 3% GDP Growth (2 min read)
- (Jul 2017) Paul Krugman: California is Beating Texas' "Lone Star Stumble" (2 min read)
- (Mar 2019) Japan Times: Japan May be in Recession Rather Than Longest Growth Phase Since the War, Key Index Suggests (1 min read)
- (May 2020) Analysis: Generations of Keynesian Policies Have Made Us Extremely Vulnerable to the Covid-19 Economic Crisis (4 min read)
- (Sep 2021) Paul Krugman Lauds California's "Progressive Success Story" (7 min read)
- (Aug 2022) A Look Back at Two Decades of Paul Krugman Predictions (6 min read)
- (Mar 2023) Flashback: Janet Yellen Says We Won't See Another Financial Crisis in Her Lifetime
- (May 2023) Revisit This Quote in a Year: Paul Krugman Says Recession Fear Overblown, "The economy is actually looking remarkably strong."
- (Sep 2023) Krugman Now Giving Economic Advice to the CCP
6. Socialism and Communism
- (Oct 2017) Puerto Rico's Debt Crisis: Will the Commonwealth Rein in its European Levels of Spending? (3 min read)
- (Dec 2017) A Houston Grocery Store Convinces Boris Yeltsin to Leave the Communist Party (1 min read)
- (Dec 2017) MiG Pilot Defector Viktor Belenko Visits a Virginia Grocery Store (2 min read)
- (Feb 2018) Venezuela's Economy Was Falling Apart Years Before Oil Prices Collapsed (4 min read)
- (Mar 2019) For the Last Time: Dictatorship Didn't Kill Venezuela's Economy, Socialism Did (3 min read)
- (May 2019) Lawrence Reed's Wisdom and Wit on May Day Protestors (1 min read)
- (Mar 2020) Stalin Screened the "The Grapes of Wrath" as Anti-American Propaganda. It Backfired (3 min read)
- (May 2021) Flashback: Noam Chomsky Praises Hugo Chavez's Socialism in Caracas (1 min read)
- (Aug 2021) Dikötter on Maoist Red Guards vs Militant "Woke" U.S. Youth (6 min read)
- (Oct 2021) Venezuela Shaves Six More Zeroes off the Bolivar Bringing Total to Fourteen Since 2007 (1 min read)
- (Nov 2021) Diköttter on China's Early Communist Days: Similarities Between Rice Farming and U.S. College Education (1 min read)
- (Jan 2022) Applebaum's "Red Famine": 1919 Ukraine Politics Far From Dead (3 min read)
- (Jul 2023) Foreshadowing Marxism: Labor Theory of Value Errors
- (Aug 2023) Robert Service on Trotsky's U.S. Lifestyle
7. Macroeconomics and Business Cycles
- (Sep 2018) The Obama Recovery: How does it Stack Up Against America's Previous Post-Crisis Expansions? (10 min read)
- (Oct 2017) Predictions of Macroeconomists from 1929 to 2009 (4 min read)
- (Sep 2018) Ten Year Anniversary of Fannie and Freddie's Conservatorships (4 min read)
- (May 2018) The Alleged Austerity of the United Kingdom (1 min read)
- (Mar 2020) Thoughts on the Fed's Coronavirus QE and the Economy in General (4 min read)
- (Jun 2020) Paul Krugman: Surprisingly "Upbeat" and Modest About a Post-Covid Recovery (5 min read)
- (Sep 2020) August Unemployment Down 6.3 Points in Four Months: Comparing the 2020 Jobs Recovery to the 2008 Recession (4 min read)
- (Oct 2020) Q3 GDP 2020 Forecast to Grow at a Record 35.3% Annualized Rate (4 min read)
- (Jan 2021) Biden's Stimulus Plan: What's in it and Where's it Going? (6 min read)
- (Mar 2021) The Bad, the Good, and the Ugly of the Democratic-Biden $1.9 Trillion Stimulus Package (8 min read)
- (Apr 2021) Small Doubts Creeping in About the Sustained Strength of the Recovery (2 min read)
- (Apr 2021) Former Fed Vice Chair Alan Blinder: All for 43.8% Capital Gains Taxes Because It'll Turn Out Like 1986 (4 min read)
- (Jul 2021) Thoughts on the Recently Stagnant National Unemployment Rate (4 min read)
- (Jun 2022) Janet Yellen/Biden White House Chorus: "Recession Not Inevitable" (1 min read)
- (Aug 2022) Supply and Demand: What Comes First? Which is More Important? Part 1 of 2 (6 min read)
- (Aug 2022) Addendum to Supply and Demand: What Comes First?
- (Sep 2022) Supply and Demand: Say's Law of Markets and Keynesian Economics. Part 2 of 2 (10 min read)
- (Sep 2022) Addendum to Supply and Demand: The "Sick Chicken" Case of 1935 (3 min read)
- (Apr 2023) Karine Jean-Pierre: "We Are Not Headed To a Recession or a Pre-Recession"
- (Aug 2023) Where We Are in the Interest Rate Cycle
- (Feb 2024) Has Recession Been Officially Called Off? (6 min read)
8. Microeconomics
- (Mar 2021) Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Hails Denmark's $22/Hour Wage at McDonalds, Omits $15 Bacon Sandwich Meals and Kiosks Replacing Humans (2 min read)
- (Aug 2021) "$142,126 annual salary required to comfortably afford a two-bedroom apartment in San Francisco" (5 min read)
---------
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Marginal Revenue Product (Part 1 of 2) (7 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Marginal Revenue Product (Part 2 of 2) (8 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Marginal Factor Cost (Part 1 of 2 - "Just Flip Two More Burgers Per Hour") (7 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Marginal Factor Cost (Part 2 of 2 - The Henry Ford Wages Myth) (7 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies Addendum: The “Raise Everyone’s Wages and Companies Will Earn Greater Profits” Fallacy (5 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Labor vs Capital (Part 1 of 2) (5 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Labor vs Capital (Part 2 of 2) (5 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Corporate Accounting (8 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Minimum Wage’s Biggest Fans, Part 1—White Racists, Xenophobes, Labor Unions, and Leftist Intellectuals (7 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Minimum Wage’s Biggest Fans, Part 2—Big Business (7 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Minimum Wage’s Biggest Fans, Part 3—Small Business with Premium Labor Costs (4 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: Minimum Wage in Other Countries (7 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: "If wages had kept pace with productivity gains since 1968 the current minimum wage would be more than $24 an hour” (Part 1 of 2) (8 min read)
- Minimum Wage Economics and Fallacies: "If wages had kept pace with productivity gains since 1968 the current minimum wage would be more than $24 an hour” (Part 2 of 2) (6 min read)
---------
9. Fixed Capital
- (Apr 2021) Capital Theory: Productivity of the Ever Given and 16th Century England's Merchant Fleet (1 min read)
- (May 2022) Have U.S. Workers Really Gotten Zero Share of Productivity Gains Since 1980? (7 min read)
10. Competition and Antitrust
11. Healthcare
- The Economics of Healthcare in America #1: Where Individuals (not Averages) Live Longer Than Any Country on Earth (Part 1 of 2) (5 min read)
- The Economics of Healthcare in America #1: Where Individuals (not Averages) Live Longer Than Any Country on Earth (Part 2 of 2) (3 min read)
- The Economics of Healthcare in America #2: Another Myth that Won’t Die: “U.S. Infant Mortality Rates are Among the Worst in the Developed World” (6 min read)
- The Economics of Healthcare in America #3: Why Are Pre-Existing Conditions Even a Problem? (Hint: they weren’t until FDR made them one in 1943-Part 1 of 4) (6 min read)
- The Economics of Healthcare in America #3: Why Are Pre-Existing Conditions Even a Problem? (Part 2 of 4) (4 min read)
- The Economics of Healthcare in America #3: Why Are Pre-Existing Conditions Even a Problem? (Part 3 of 4) (5 min read)
- The Economics of Healthcare in America #3: Why Are Pre-Existing Conditions Even a Problem? (Part 4 of 4) (8 min read)
- CATO's Michael Cannon Echoes Calls for Reform—Employer Funded HSA's for Purchasing Direct, Portable Individual Health Insurance Plans (2 min read)
---------
12. Government Budgets, Taxes, and Spending
- (Mar 2021) California: Land of Blue State Bailouts, $365,000 Lifeguards, $446,000 Sheriff’s Deputies, $207,000 Tree Trimmers, $270,000 Janitors, $486,000 Firemen, and More! (5 min read)
- (Apr 2021) California Spends $11 Billion on Unemployment Fraud During Covid, Possibly $31 Billion (1 min read)
- (Jun 2021) Yellen and the G7's "Historic" Global Minimum Tax: Anti-Collusion and Price Fixing Laws Don't Apply To Us (2 min read)
- (Aug 2021) Study: Oh No, Jeff Bezos Holds More Wealth Than All of America's Grade Schoolers! (2 min read)
- (Jun 2022) ExxonMobil Paid More Than $1 Trillion in Taxes Over a Decade But Joe Biden Says "Start Paying Your Taxes!" (5 min read)
- (Jul 2022) Now Los Angeles Unionized Lifeguards Make $500,000 Per Year
- (Nov 2022) Are Fiscal Deficits and Debt Worse Under Republicans? (4 min read)
- (Nov 2022) Does the Economy Perform Worse Under Republicans? (4 min read)
- (Nov 2022) Does the Stock Market Perform Worse Under Republicans? And Does Political Party Even Matter? (5 min read)
- (Feb 2023) Yes, Uncle Sam Can Now Run $1+ Trillion Deficits Forever (5 min read)
- (Feb 2023) Larry Summers Predicts $2.2 Trillion Average Deficits For The Next Decade (2 min read)
- (Apr 2023) Yellen Confirms Average $1.7 Trillion Deficits for the Next Decade (2 min read)
- (May 2023) Preview of Upcoming Columns on Government Spending
- (Jun 2023) Government Spending, Part 1: Military Spending Over Decades (4 min read)
- (Jun 2023) Government Spending, Part 2: Military Spending vs All Government Spending and GDP (6 min read)
- (Jun 2023) Government Spending, Part 3: Military Spending, the Military Industrial Complex, and "The Next Ten Countries Combined" (6 min read)
- (Jun 2023) Government Spending Addendum: Military Spending and the Discretionary vs Mandatory Budgets (2 min read)
- (Aug 2023) Government Spending: Social Security, Part 1 (7 min read)
- (Aug 2023) Government Spending: Social Security, Part 2 (5 min read)
- (Sep 2023) Government Spending: Social Security, Part 3 (5 min read)
- (Sep 2023) Government Spending: Social Security, Part 4 (5 min read)
- (Nov 2023) Now Washington's Record Interest Payments on Debt is Trump's Fault Too (6 min read)
- (Jan 2024) Biden Inadvertently Proves Taxing the Rich Doesn’t Work (4 min read)
- (Jul 2018) America's Balance of Trade Deficit is not $739 Billion—It's Almost Zero (8 min read)
- (May 2019) Paul Krugman: All for 25% Tariffs on China Imports Back in 2010 (1 min read)
14. Energy
- (Apr 2018) OPEC Cries Uncle; Failed in its Bid to Eliminate U.S. Shale Follwing a Flawed Economic Theory (12 min read)
- (Jun 2018) Postscript: OPEC Licks its Wounds all the way to a Houston Steak Dinner (2 min read)
- (Dec 2018) Mexico's New President Declares Sharp Energy U-Turn (6 min read)
- (Jul 2017) An American Treasure: The Green River Basin's 3 Trillion Barrels of Shale Oil (3 min read)
- (Aug 2017) Solar and Wind Energy Subsidies vs Oil and Natural Gas (3 min read)
- (May 2018) The USA: "Undisputed Oil and Gas Leader in the World Over the Next Several Decades" (1 min read)
- (Nov 2018) A Visual of Shale Oil's Impact on American Imports (1 min read)
- (Feb 2019) U.S Oil Exports: Indian Oil Corp Signs First Annual Deal for U.S. Crude (1 min read)
- (Mar 2019) ExxonMobil Thinks it Can Achieve $15 a Barrel Production in the Permian (1 min read)
- (Apr 2019) Permian Takes the Crown as World's Top Oil Field (1 min read)
- (Dec 2019) "It's Ridiculous." Gas prices spike above $4 in SF and California. $2.09 in Houston (1 min read)
- (Mar 2020) Coronavirus and the Saudi/Russian Oil Price War: Trump Orders Energy Department to "Fill Up" the Strategic Petroleum Reserve With Cheap Oil (1 min read)
- (Apr 2020) Paul Krugman in 2008: Higher Oil Prices Won't Spur Shale Oil Production (1 min read)
- (Jun 2021) Energy CEO Disparages The North Face's Woke Fail on Oil and Gas Production (1 min read)
- (Oct 2021) Britain’s 2000 California Energy Crisis (6 min read)
- (Oct 2021) Twenty More British Power Suppliers at Risk of Bankruptcy due to Regulatory Price Caps; Press Calls it "Deregulation" (2 min read)
- (Jan 2022) Energy Update from Britain: U.K. Power Regulator Approves 50% Rate Increase (2 min read)
- (Feb 2022) Anatomy of a Deception: The Press Rips "The Largest Oil and Gas Companies" for the Sin of Returning to Profitability (7 min read)
- (Feb 2022) Biden Halts Oil/Gas Leases Again Even As Russia Ramps Up its Invasion of Ukraine (1 min read)
- (Mar 2022) Europe Turns its Back on its Own Natural Gas Resources, Volunteers to be Held Captive to Russia (2 min read)
- (Mar 2022) UK's Boris Johnson Announces North Sea Production Expansion to Replace Russian Supply, U.S. Still Stalling (1 min read)
- (Jun 2022) U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Announces Energy Windfall Profits Tax Rate of 65% (1 min read)
- (Jun 2022) Biden White House Considering Adding 25% Energy Windfall Profits Tax (1 min read)
- (Jun 2022) ExxonMobil's Quarterly Profits vs Apple's
15. Economic History Articles
- (Sep 2017) The 1950's Weren't America's Most Prosperous Decade: It's Not Even Close (4 min read)
- (Jan 2019) Herb Kelleher: The Man Who Democratized Air Travel (4 min read)
- (Jul 2019) How Economic Regulations Almost Killed the American Revolution—Until Free Markets Saved It (4 min read)
- (Sep 2022) 19th Century Railroad Baron James J. Hill on America's Capital (1 min read)
- (Feb 2024) When Was History's First Monetary Inflation? (4 min read)
16. Political and Economic History of China
- (Oct 2023) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 1: The Qin Dynasty (7 min read)
- (Oct 2023) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 2: The Han Dynasty and Xinjiang (7 min read)
- (Oct 2023) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 3: The Tang Dynasty (7 min read)
- (Nov 2023) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 4: The Violent Fall of the Tang Dynasty (6 min read)
- (Nov 2023) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 5: The Song and Southern Song Dynasties (7 min read)
- (Dec 2023) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 6: The Mongols before the Yuan Dynasty (5 min read)
- (Dec 2023) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 7: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), Kublai Khan and Marco Polo (7 min read)
- (Jan 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 8: The Decline and Fall of the Yuan Dynasty (6 min read)
- (Jan 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 9: The Ming Dynasty of 1368-1644 (6 min read)
- (Jan 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 10: The Fall of the Ming Dynasty (7 min read)
- (Feb 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 11: The Early Qing Dynasty's Pacification of China (6 min read)
- (Mar 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 12: The Kangxi Emperor Launches the “High Qing”(5 min read)
- (Mar 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 13: The Great Qianlong Emperor and the Pinnacle of the Qing Dynasty (6 min read)
- (Mar 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 14: The Most Corrupt Official in Chinese History Bankrupts the Qing Dynasty (6 min read)
- (Apr 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 15: Lord Macartney and the British Arrive (7 min read)
- (Apr 2024) A Political and Economic History of China, Part 16: British Diplomacy Tries and Fails Again in 1816 (7 min read)
- (Apr 2024) A Political and Economic History of China: Part 17: The First Opium War (7 min read)
17. African Aid
- Dambisa Moyo: Does Africa Really Need More Government Aid, or More Capital Investment? (3 min read)
- Africa Postscript #1: Bill Gates vs Kumi Naidoo vs Bono. Only One of These Three Gets It (2 min read)
- Africa Postscript #2: Dambisa Moyo and Economic Development vs Kumi Naidoo and Reparations for Colonialism (2 min read)
- Africa Postscript #3:Bill Gates Denounces Dambisa Moyo for “Promoting Evil" (3 min read)
18. California and San Francisco
- (Oct 2018) The Snapcrap App: San Francisco Capitalism Still Has a Pulse
- (May 2019) Salesforce Chairman: San Francisco's Homeless Crisis the Result of "Unregulated Capitalism, Unbridled Capitalism, Capitalism Run Amok"
- (Feb 2020) San Francisco's "Poop Patrol" Chief Arrested by FBI on Bribery, Corruption Charges as Human Feces Complaints and Homeless Budget Both Soar to New Heights
- (Mar 2021) San Francisco Puts Homeless in Parking Lots Tents... For $61,068 Per Tent
- (Jun 2021) California Legislature Proposes New "Wealth Tax" and 16.8% Top Income Tax Rate (1 min read)
----------
- (Oct 2021) How the Hell Can You Stand to Live in San Francisco? Part 1 (Homelessness, Shoplifting, Store Closures, Business Exodus - 7 min read)
- (Nov 2021) How the Hell Can You Stand to Live in San Francisco? Part 2 (Home Prices - 8 min read)
- (Nov 2021) Local San Francisco News Profiles Million-Dollar Condos Besieged by Homeless Drug Addicts
- (Nov 2021) Tourists Warned Not to Rent Cars in San Francisco due to Epidemic of Auto Break-Ins
- (Nov 2021) How the Hell Can You Stand to Live in San Francisco? Part 3 (Rent Contol -8 min read)
- (Dec 2021) How the Hell Can You Stand to Live in San Francisco? Part 4 (Taxes and Gas Prices - 6 min read)
- (Dec 2021) How the Hell Can You Stand to Live in San Francisco? Part 5 (Electricity Rates and Blackouts, Bridge Tolls - 7 min read)
- (Dec 2021) How the Hell Can You Stand to Live in San Francisco? Part 6 (Muni - 7 min read)
- (Dec 2021) How the Hell Can You Stand to Live in San Francisco? Part 7 (BART and Minimum Wage - 7 min read)
----------
- (Feb 2022) Bay Area Residents Asked to Allow Vagrants into Their Homes to Tackle Homelessness Crisis
- (Jul 2022) S.F. D.A. Chesa Boudin's Lasting Legacy: Even the Advil and Tylenol are Locked Up
- (Sep 2022) San Francisco Thieves Steal Police Catalytic Converters Right in Front of the Station
- (Oct 2022) San Francisco Rent Control: 60,000+ Units Vacant For a City of 850,000 (2 min read)
- (Jan 2023) America's Highest Taxes and California Projects a $22.5 Billion Deficit... and We're Not Even in a Recession Yet (4 min read)
- (Jan 2023) Gavin Newsom Fact Check: "95% of Texans pay higher taxes than Californians" (4 min read)
- (Jan 2023) San Francisco Walgreens Bubble Gum, Toothpaste, Candy Bars... and More Now Locked Up (1 min read)
- (Feb 2023) Gavin Newsom Demands Federal Investigation Into California Power Prices
- (Mar 2023) CNN Crew Robbed in San Francisco While Reporting on City Crime Wave
- (May 2023) Now California's Projected Budget Deficit up to $32 Billion
- (Jul 2023) Left Coast Correspondent: Just Another Poop Day in San Francisco
- (Sep 2023) Left Coast Correspondent: Days Before Opening, Giant Spiked Fence Surrounds New SF Total Wine
- (Nov 2023) San Francisco APEC: A Tale of Two Sanitizations, or "Commies Gonna Commie" in any Century (6 min read)
- (Nov 2023) Czech Reporters Covering San Francisco APEC Summit Robbed at Gunpoint
- (Dec 2023) California to Fine Stores Without Gender-Neutral Toy Sections
- (Dec 2023) California 2024-25 Forecasted Budget Deficit Widens to Record $68 Billion
- (Dec 2023) San Francisco Thieves Drive into a CVS, Take ATM
- (Jan 2024) "Emboldened" San Francisco Thieves Drive SUV Through Bank of America Window
- (Jan 2024) The World-Famous "Hall of Mirrors" (aka. San Francisco Target)
- (Feb 2024) San Francisco Police Station Burglarized
- (Feb 2024) Newsom's FY24-25 Budget Deficit Widens to $73 Billion
- (Mar 2024) "Bring Algebra Back" Proposition on San Francisco's Ballot (2 min read)
- (Mar 2024) San Francisco Progressives Bellyache About Higher Power Bills They Asked For
- (Apr 2024) San Francisco Bay Role Reversal: Capitalism Works First, Socialism Destroys Later
19. Small Bites, LOL's, and Miscellaneous
- (Dec 2018) On Some Really, Really Misleading Income Inequality Statistics (2 min read)
- (Jan 2019) This Didn't Age Well. Larry Summers: Electing Trump Will Cause a Global Recession Within 18 Months
- (Jul 2018) Massachusetts AG Prefers Russian Natural Gas Imports to U.S. Pipelines
- (Oct 2017) Is Connecticut's Slanted Tax Structure Inviting Crony Capitalism?
- (Nov 2018) Golden Comments: Paul Krugman Teaches Economics and Society at Masterclass
- (Jun 2018) Fake News Winner: Poverty Gets Worse Under Trump (in 2016)
- (Sep 2018) Quick News Flash: China Announces Broad Import Tax Cut
- (Apr 2019) 1Q19 GDP: Business Investment Growth Trends for The Last Four Years (Obama and Trump)
- (Aug 2019) Non-Economics Special Report: On the Ground in a Hong Kong Under Siege
- (Dec 2019) A Look Inside Leonardo DiCaprio's Superyacht
- (Mar 2020) Lawrence Reed and the New York Post on American Pharma and Biotech in the Age of Coronavirus Pandemic
- (Jun 2021) Chuck Schumer Announces He Doesn't Understand the Concept of Collateral and Student Lending (1 min read)
- (Aug 2021) Leftist Media Fail Once Again on Unemployment Numbers (1 min read)
- (Oct 2021) Larry Summers Slams Woke Central Bankers for Risking Losing Control of Inflation (1 min read)
- (Apr 2022) "White Privilege" Hard to Find in U.S. Median Household Income Numbers (3 min read)
- (Aug 2022) Who Has Taiwan Traditionally "Belonged" To? (4 min read)
- (Sep 2022) A San Francisco Refugee Visits DeSantis Country (3 min read)
- (Oct 2022) Ben Bernanke's Nobel Prize Divides Economists and Bankers
- (Oct 2022) Inflated Poll Results (lol)
- (Oct 2022) Is the Free Market Really "Survival of the Fittest?" (2 min read)
- (Dec 2022) Ludwig von Mises: Consumers Are the Real Bosses Under Market Systems
- (Dec 2022) Rothbard vs AOC: Pick One Only
- (Sep 2023) Automobiles: Complexity, Reliability, and CAFE Standards (5 min read)
- (Dec 2023) Biden's Stock Market vs Trump's
- (Jan 2024) Largest North American Banks by Assets
- (Jan 2024) World's Largest Banks by Assets
- (Feb 2024) 1983: Nixon Prescient on the "Double Standard" Media
- (Feb 2024) Why is Inflation Worst in "Greed Free" Places?
20. BONUS: Correspondent for Left Coast Affairs and Other Inexplicable Phenomena Posts
- (Feb 2020) San Francisco Voters to Decide on Prop D: A Per-Foot Tax on Vacant Retail Space (3 min read)
- (Feb 2020) The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" at Your Local San Francisco Bookstore (2 min read)
- (Mar 2020) CCP's Coronavirus Propaganda Boasts "We can say with confidence that the U.S. owes China an apology, and the world owes China thanks" (2 min read)
- (Mar 2020) Wokeness and Coronavirus is a Dangerous Combination (2 min read)
- (Apr 2020) Chilean Leftist Trapped in Cuban Quarantine Learns Misfortunes of Socialism (1 min read)
- (Apr 2020) Biden Campaign Backs Trump China Air Travel Ban—64 Days Later (1 min read)
- (Apr 2020) Taiwan and the Coronavirus: With Enemies Like China, Who Needs Friends? (3 min read)
- (May 2020) British Intelligence: All Cell Phone Activity at Wuhan Virology Institute Stopped October 7-24 (1 min read)
- (May 2020) Jack Keane: Chinese Propagation of Coronavirus to Globe Through International Flights Likely a Deliberate Calculation (2 min read)
- (Jun 2020) BLM Rioters Pull Down Statue of Abolitionist Ulysses Grant, the General Who Ended Slavery (1 min read)
- (Aug 2020) Video Reveals San Francisco Residential Parking Woes (1 min read)
- (Oct 2020) Wuhan Institute of Virology 2015 Paper: "We Created a Chimeric Virus... ...from Chinese horseshoe bats... ...in primary human airway cells and in vivo." (4 min read)
- (Nov 2020) Joe Biden's Incredible Post-Election Night Comeback That Happened in Only Three States (3 min read)
- (Nov 2020) Twitter and the CCP Work to Ensure Covid Doesn't Produce a Repeat of 1644 or 1912 (1 min read)
- (Dec 2020) Hewlett Packard Enterprise Latest Company to Leave the San Francisco Bay Area (1 min read)
- (Apr 2021) Conservative Boycotts of Delta, Coke and MLB Begin Just as Shapiro Predicted (2 min read)
- (May 2021) Wikipedia's Search Previews Slanted Bigtime Left (2 min read)
- (May 2021) Followup on Wikipedia's Slanted Search Previews: Communist Mass Murderers (3 min read)
- (Nov 2021) Media React to Rittenhouse Verdict: "People" Protesting are Actually the Revolutionary Communist Party USA
- (Feb 2022) CNN Racks Up Impressive String of Sexual Harassment/Assault Charges, Lawsuits, and Offenses (1 min read)
- (Mar 2022) Yes, Russia has Invaded Literally Every Country on its Border in the Last 150 Years (1 min read)
- (Mar 2022) "Putin Puppet" Trump Sold Javelin Antitank Missiles to Ukraine After Obama Sent Blankets (1 min read)
- (Mar 2022) Vladimir Putin's Red Herring: An Inventory of Nuclear Weapons in Europe (3 min read)
- (Aug 2022) Government "Shoot Up Centers" on Governor Newsom's Desk for Signing
- (Jan 2024) San Francisco Thieves Target Entire Drive-Thru ATM
- (Mar 2024) Communist Vietnam "Ministry of Information" Reporting Now More Truthful Than U.S. Media
- (Apr 2024) Pro-LGBT Apple Investing in Indonesia, Where Gays Are Publicly Caned
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.