David Goodhart’s Road to Somewhere
“Goodhart frequently emphasizes that the trends in opinion that he reports are not figments of his imagination, but real opinions held by real people. That much seems accurate, and as a description of British political beliefs, his book makes useful contributions. He has failed to show why the fact that some people are convinced by hollow and harmful ideas make them valid, coherent, defensible, legitimate, or respectable. Some things just don’t hold up, no matter your tribe.” ~ Joakim Book
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Free Down Payments and Subsidized Mortgages are Not Social Justice
“Despite 50 years of debacles, politicians are still glorified for pretending that free downpayments and subsidized mortgages are “magic beans” that multiply social justice in America.” ~ James Bovard
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Tragedies of Our Time: Pandemic, Planning, and Racial Politics
“The magnitude and depth of what has actually been experienced in declines in production and rises in unemployment have one and only one primary and singular source: the federal and especially state government-ordered shutdowns across the country.” ~ Richard Ebeling
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No, the Poor Don’t Pay Higher Taxes Than the Rich
A new report in the New York Times claims the ultra-wealthy pay a lower tax rate than the poor. A closer look at tax statistics reveals that story is also likely wrong.
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Economics Has Neglected Inequality? Absurdly Untrue
In fact, inequality studies have been a mainstay of the discipline since at least 1948.
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New Evidence that Soaring Inequality is a Myth
Alarmists insist inequality is skyrocketing in the United States. A new measure of the top one percent’s wealth should temper that claim
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Don’t Trust Inequality Data: A Lesson from the UK
The progressive zeal for higher taxes is distorting how they construct inequality statistics.
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Wealth Has Never Been More Equal
In terms of information access and the opportunity to learn and share knowledge, we’ve never been more rich and equal.
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Soaking the Rich Doesn’t Lead to Income Equality
Economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman claim we need a 70% tax rate to stem inequality. Their argument derives from a misreading of U.S. tax history.
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