Topic: Economic Trends

Women in the Wonderful World of Work

– March 8, 2020

Woman may become the dominant force in law and medicine, but men will apparently play the heavier role in engineering for the near-term.

Economic Trends

Real Estate and the Wealth of a Nation

– March 8, 2020

In terms of the economic health of a nation, the level of private debt and the value of private assets has an enormous influence on household spending patterns.

Economic Trends

Career Strategies Haven’t Changed as Much as You Think

– March 5, 2020

Virus fears are causing many companies to encourage their employees to work at home instead of coming into the office. It’s possible now, and that’s wonderful. Twenty years ago, it would have been far more difficult. Forty years ago, most jobs today co …

Economic Trends

Liberalism Should Reject Welfare Statism

– March 4, 2020

Dislike for the personality and disagreement with the policies of Donald Trump have helped to revive a seemingly dead idea: socialism. This has placed friends and defenders of a free society on the defensive in having to make the positive case for free market liberalism.

Crisis, Economic Trends

Economic Policy Must Prepare for Pandemic Disease

– February 27, 2020

The best approach to a shocking event like a global pandemic disease with a high death rate is to free the markets and eliminate barriers to trade as soon as possible. This would at least minimize the damage, get goods and services to those who need them, calm the panic, and reward traders and investors for maintaining normalcy and growth insofar as it is possible.

Crisis, Economic Trends

Sanders, Stocks, the Threat of Pandemic Disease

– February 27, 2020

If headline writers possessed a clue about what moves stocks, or even if they possessed a clue about whom to ask about what moves stocks, they wouldn’t be headline writers.

Authoritarianism, Economic Trends

The Strangest Thing about the Debate

– February 26, 2020

The trouble with the 7 people on the stage last night is that they have little or no regard for our personal plans. It’s their plans for us that matter. Our lives are mere abstractions to them.

Economic Trends

Elkhart, Indiana, Thrives Despite Obama Administration’s Policies

– February 25, 2020

Former President Obama tweeted in honor of the anniversary of signing the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Eleven years ago today, near the bottom of the worst recession in generations, I signed the Recovery Act, paving the way for more …

Crisis, Economic Trends

The Effect of the Coronavirus on Financial Markets

– February 25, 2020

We should take a sober, dispassionate look at forces acting upon the U.S. financial markets. Headlines indicating a “panic” are vastly overwrought.

Central Banking, Economic Trends, Monetary Policy

The Technocrats Will Not Save Us

– February 24, 2020

Besides the certainty, as they say, of death and taxes, one other highly likely event will be an end to the general “good times” of relatively low price inflation and low unemployment in America. In other words, the United States will eventually experi …

Economic Trends, Technology

Why We Must Keep Section 230 and Pay the High Cost of Free Speech Online

– February 20, 2020

One can’t pretend the internet hasn’t made the dark side of free speech more dangerous. But rather than a censor, it’s time for a gut check.

Economic Trends

The Underappreciated Trend in Mortality and Inequality

– February 19, 2020

Most economists, left or right, care about human development. By human development, they mean more than simply increases in income. They refer to a greater ability for individuals to choose the lives they deem most fulfilling under continually weakenin …