“The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that [ … ]

Salesman, sell, something. I am writing this to another ‘me’, whoever you are and I hope it is helpful. It is the advice I was once desperately looking for, a white [ … ]

The British Medical Journal reported last week that Dutch legislators are considering the extension of their law of euthanasia to old people who are not fatally ill but merely tired [ … ]

“In our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing.” This is the takeaway quote from George Orwell’s essay “Politics and the English Language,” which has become [ … ]

All the “fixes” have fatally weakened the real economy, and created a dangerous illusion of “wealth,” “growth” and solvency. 1. Massive expansion of debt: sovereign, household and corporate, all in [ … ]

A revised draft of “Michelson-Morley, Fisher, and Occam” is now on my webpage (Yes, new title.) This paper argues that the long quiet zero bound is an important experiment. The zero [ … ]

The wild card in cryptocurrencies is the role of Big Institutional Money. I’ve taken the liberty of preparing a projection of bitcoin’s price action going forward: You see the primary [ … ]

Once something is a right, someone has to pay for it. Standing at a bus stop in Paris recently, I noticed an advertisement for Médecins du Monde, Doctors of the [ … ]

Finland, the thought leader in economy destruction, has announced that thru 2018 they will provide Universal Basic Income of 560 to 2,000 euros to randomly selected welfare recipients. If a [ … ]

My Hoover colleague David Brady put together this lovely graph, using the Gallup poll results from their standard question, “do you think the economy is getting better?” It has many [ … ]