Unintended consequences

The Dec 14  Wall Street Journal amplifies my warnings on the movement to de-fund fossil fuels by financial regulation, citing "climate...

Christmas in Quarantine

  Christmas in Quarantine by Hard Femme   A merry Christmas -- or whatever you celebrate this time of year -- in quarantine, from a favorite...

Techsodus/Techsit politics.

The tech industry is fed up and leaving San Francisco in particular, the valley and California in general. Covid, like a war, speeds things ...

CBDC in EU

I wrote an oped for Il Sole 24 Ore on central bank digital currency, as part of a series they are doing. It's here in their premium ed...

Bisin on MMT Rhetoric

Alberto Bisin has written  an intriguing short review  of Stephanie Kelton's  The Deficit Myth . Alberto focuses on the  rhetoric  of MM...

Goodfellows wrap-up

The wrap-up goodfellows for the year, a great conversation with H.R. McMaster and Niall Ferguson, moderated by Bill Whalen who serves up the...

Debt denial

Our national debt denial is a new essay on debt. Yes, it repackages many themes from previous essays, but debt is important, and I'm re...

Free Market Vaccines

Part 1: Who should get the vaccine first? Sell to the highest bidder. The disease and recession go away faster.   Part 2: The cost of perfec...

Hoover is hiring!

Hoover is hiring in its fellows program! This is roughly analogous to an assistant/associate professor position, aimed at new PhDs or people...

Target the spread?

The Fed wants to control inflation. Now, it targets the nominal interest rate. But to do that it has to guess what the right real interest...

Walter Williams and Economics

 "For 40 years Walter was the heart and soul of George Mason’s unique Department of Economics. Our department unapologetically resists ...

Thanksgiving

 400 years ago, a group of intrepid migrants signed the Mayflower Compact IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names are underwritten, the Lo...

Vaccines and externalities

 A lovely point from the always creative Tyler Cowen Say, for the purposes of argument, that you had 20,000 vaccine doses to distribute. The...

OCC fights de-banking. Fed moves to climate.

Part 1: The OCC The OCC issued a refreshing rule proposal , covered in a nice WSJ oped  by Brian Brooks and Charles Calomiris. It is as inte...

Stanford Condemns Atlas

On Friday Nov. 20, as reported in the official Stanford News , the Stanford Faculty Senate formally condemned Scott Atlas, Hoover Senior Fel...