Shut Up and Give Me My Coffee
Would you like that with cream, sugar, or a lecture on race relations? The Starbucks CEO seems to think his customers are clamoring for the latter, as that’s what he’s offering with a campaign called...
View ArticleEveryone Wants a Simpler Tax Code, Right?
It seems obvious. The tax code is a complicated mess that everyone agrees should be simplified. Yet it doesn’t happen. Why not? As it turns out, quite a few people don’t want to be rid of the current...
View ArticleDon’t Cry Wolf on Religious Liberty Infringements
Respect for religious freedom has deep roots in American society. Many of those who came to America did so to escape religious persecution, and they brought with them a profound understanding of the...
View ArticleThird Time Won’t Be the Charm in Greece
Greece is getting bailed out for the third time in just five years, proving yet again that lessons from political mistakes are rarely heeded. As I wrote last month in a column for EveryJoe: The simple...
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Getting Better All The Time
You wouldn’t know it from the popularity of Thomas Piketty’s anti-capitalism treatise, or the Pope’s routine railing against free markets, but the world is getting ever more prosperous. The dramatic...
View ArticleMarket Power
The Week has a great story (hat-tip: Alex Tabarrok) about how Feeding America, which runs the largest network of food banks and is the third largest non-profit in the U.S., drastically improved its...
View ArticleWhy Just Stop With Tariffs on China?
Noted scholar and respected intellectual Donald Trump has unveiled another part of his plan to “make America great again:” Donald J. Trump said he would favor a 45 percent tariff on Chinese exports to...
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