Let Them Eat Breast Milk
When I learned that Bette Midler’s response to the baby formula supply crisis was “TRY BREASTFEEDING,” I immediately thought of...
Robert E. Wright
Preparing for Payment System Fragility
In previous posts, I suggested ways to cope with rising prices (COLA) and food insecurity (wild game and liberty gardens)....
A Musk Inspired Anti-ESG Takeover Wave?
It’s fun to see memes suggesting that Elon Musk should buy Alphabet, Amazon, Coca Cola, Disney, Meta, Netflix, YouTube, and...
A Musk Inspired Anti-ESG Takeover Wave?
It’s fun to see memes suggesting that Elon Musk should buy Alphabet, Amazon, Coca Cola, Disney, Meta, Netflix, YouTube, and...
Government-Induced Inequality
French economist Thomas Piketty – author of Capital, the least read book of 2014, and now A Brief History of...
Betting on Social Media
The term “social media” is something of a misnomer. I wouldn’t go so far as to call it dismisinfoganda, but...
Lessons From America’s First Great Inflations
New England first experienced significant inflation in the first half of the 1700s, and got out of it by banning...
What, to the Classical Liberal, Is Patriots’ Day?
Mr. President Ruger, Colleagues, and Fellow Classical Liberals: An internal memo says that I am to deliver a Patriots’ Day...
Liberty Gardens
Every American who can plant a “Liberty Garden” this year should do so. Akin to the “Victory” Gardens planted during...
Wild Meat Markets
The price of meat is going to go up again, partly due to increases in the overall price level, aka...
Nudge Off, Paternalists!
In Escaping Paternalism, economists Mario J. Rizzo and Glen Whitman consume mass quantities of behavioral economics, digest it, and then...
Tony Soprano’s Critique of Identity Politics
Tony Soprano, the eponymous fictional antihero of HBO’s iconic series about organized crime syndicates in northern New Jersey, tends to...
