Raymond C. Niles
The Political Cleverness of Envy-Driven Housing Policies
"This is a recipe for housing stagnation. Strangling the supply of new market rate housing through these various programs means that existing market rents (whenever they are not regulated), must…
Wage and Price Controls Are Not the Answer to Inflation
"If the US imposed economy-wide price controls, as Krugman proposes, it would not stop inflation, just as the Emperor Diocletian’s economy-wide controls did not stop Roman inflation and just as…
The Lottery Life: Creating Lucky Housing Winners at the Expense of Everyone Else
"Inexpensive new housing can be built again if only the government will get out of the way. End the 'Lottery Life' in housing and watch market entrepreneurs do the rest."…
End the Gasoline Crisis: Try Motivation by Love, Not Fear
"It is time to unleash the market to produce more, rather than excoriate the oil producers. Try some motivation by love, President Biden, not motivation by fear." ~ Raymond C.…
The Perpetual Tragedy of New York’s Rent Control
"If the city keeps reducing real rents by capping increases below the inflation rate (as it is doing now), and if inflation continues for more than a few years, we…
Hostility to Free Trade Is Now Officially Bipartisan
"Now, despite nominally battling each other on many issues, on one issue Democrats and Republicans stand united: their bipartisan hostility to free trade." ~ Raymond C. Niles
Wuhan Lab Controversy Illustrates How Government Funding Throttles Scientific Integrity
"We must separate government completely from science for the same reason we separate church from state and press from state. Don't force our scientists to become supplicants to government bureaucrats…
Monopoly vs. Monopoly: Sloppy Definitions Lead to Harmful Policy
"A new term is needed for the highly-competitive innovators who achieve large market shares by creatively providing outstanding, innovative, and lower-cost products and services that are of such value that…
Goodbye Grounded, My Favorite Coffee Bar Destroyed by Lockdowns
"Multiply my story by the hundreds of thousands of patrons of their favorite store, bar, restaurant or coffee shop all over the City — and the hardworking owners of these…
Celebrate Entrepreneurs, Don’t Guillotine Them
"The key to getting wealthy in a capitalistic society is to produce something so valuable that millions of people want to trade for it." ~ Raymond C. Niles
