Oxford Economics’s Ian Mulheirn writes that London’s housing market isn’t expensive because of a lack of building, and building more wouldn’t lower prices. I disagree. Claim one: housebuilding has outstripped household [ … ]
Unraveling Obamacare. Is a sometimes dictatorship good?
The White House has ended the unconstitutional subsidy payments of Obamacare. The uninformed but emphatic CNN (and its ratings driven endlessly exasperated peers) consumers are accusing the president of “sabotaging” [ … ]
P2P Series Part 3: China’s Online Lending Consolidates As Market Grows
China’s online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending industry is going through a welcome consolidation. Weak, noncompliant platforms are failing, but long overdue regulatory tightening and still excessive competition is likely to further [ … ]
Facebook shakedown. the Main Street Media Mafia
Facebook Shakedown Facebook has announced their solution: outsourcing content decisions to legacy media “fact-checking” organizations According to Eugene Kiely, director of Factcheck.org, after Facebook alerts them of potentially fake news, the [ … ]
Late night laughter? Only for the politically sleepless
Viewership of late-night talk shows is steadily declining. Jon Stewart spin-off Stephen Colbert has clawed his way to the lead of the pack with a nightly audience just a bit over [ … ]
Take a Knee #resistance. “If he said it, we’re against it”
Take a knee began with Colin Kaepernick, the original take a knee’r, conflating high volume social protest with NFL level player ability. Then in a mixed up public always looking [ … ]
Star Trek Discovery. No BS review
I grew up watching the original Star Trek. I was too young to see its first go-round, it had just been cancelled. I was the generation that loved it [ … ]
Personal Income Taxes Are Higher than Corporate Income Taxes in Large Emerging Economies
October 3, 2017 Most advanced and large emerging economies have higher top marginal personal income tax rates than statutory corporate income tax rates, in part because governments have realized corporations [ … ]
Monday Morning Roundup: More on the Sanctions
North Korea policy is once again careening between competing administration statements. Over the weekend Secretary Tillerson held open the door to negotiations, stating the fact that the US has channels [ … ]
When healthcare kills
The only way to systemically lower costs is to make prevention and transparency the top priorities. As I have been noting for a decade, the broken U.S. healthcare system will [ … ]