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| The Shovel Creek Fire |
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| Tax break coming? |
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| Jay Powell |
Harvard professor N. Gregory Mankiw is one of the most influential economists in the United States. But the 61-year-old’s authority does not stem from advancing an arcane scholarly finding. Nor has Mankiw coined some catchy phrase that captured the popular imagination (see, for example, “The Affluent Society” by John Kenneth Galbraith). Instead, Mankiw’s power derives from his position as the author of one of the most widely used introductory college economics textbooks.
Among the conventional weapons in the arsenal of the modern Warfare State, none is crueler or more indiscriminate than economic sanctions. While a bomb, missile, or other military ordnance can devastate an entire neighborhood in a moment, the slow death of economic strangulation can so degrade an entire people that they are reduced to a pre-civilizational state, modern savages living at a subsistence level.
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| William F. Buckley Jr. |
A very long time ago, via a series of unlikely turns, I found myself — a 19-year-old nobody from the Denver suburbs — splitting a bottle of expensive champagne with William F. Buckley Jr. The celebrated conservative was charming and amused as I explained, as only a college sophomore can, all the ways in which he was mistaken about the world. For example, the Chrysler Corp. was seeking a government bailout at the time, and I scolded Buckley that capitalists would have a lot more credibility while extolling the free market if they didn’t go begging to the government every time the market ruled against them.
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| Jared Kushner |
A non-technical definition of “socialism” would be “bossy and obstructive and high-handed government.” Sweden certainly has a good deal of that, inspired for example by the eugenicists Gunnar and Alva Myrdal in the 1930s. Sweden, with other Protestant countries, led the world in compulsory sterilization and persecution of gays into the 1970s. It’s an example of the way the Swedes go along with their government too much, sometimes because they assume too easily that whatever is widely agreed must be right. An old Swedish woman left her worn-out frying pan in a trash container for metal packages. She was arrested for committing a crime against the environment, freed only after trial, and fined. Nice...
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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| Joseph Schumpeter |
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| Ludwig von Mises |
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| IMP Chief Economist Gita Gopinath |
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| Judy Shelton |
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| NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio |
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| Judy Shelton |
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| Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jay Powell |
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| Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg |
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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |
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| Wilbur Ross |
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| Milton Friedman |
This is pretty much the question that I asked the architect of Obamacare, the evil Ezekiel Emanuel:Chris asks Bernie Sanders about his Medicare for all plan #FNS #2020 #FoxNews pic.twitter.com/e9hk1LRXKz— FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) June 16, 2019
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| India Prime Minister Narendra Modi |
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| Louise Linton on the set of "Me, You, Madness" |
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| Elizabeth Warren |
Editor:Kevin Williamson, with his usual eloquence, exposes the pretensions and fallacies that infest Elizabeth Warren’s scheme of “economic patriotism” (“Colbert Reports,” June 9). And Mr. Williamson is exactly correct to note that this policy – far from being cool, cutting-edge, and ‘progressive’ – was perfected by French Minister of Finance Jean-Baptiste Colbert in the 17thcentury. These policies, as Mr. Williamson wryly notes, “did not do much for France.”
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| Martin Feldstein (1939-2019) |
