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 [ … ]

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 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 [ … ]

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 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 [ … ]

  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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

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 [ … ]

I want the people who work at Pullman to have the advantages of seeing the best,” Pullman said. “I want no cheap, crude, inartistic work in any department. I have [ … ]