The Daily Economy
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Two Societies: ‘May I Take Your Order?’ or ‘That’s an Order!’
“We should want to live in a society where we recognize one another’s right to say ‘no, thank you’ to an offer — that is to say, a world where people take orders instead of give them.” ~Art Carden
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Trump’s Subsidized IVF Spells Disaster
“Trump’s plan is a disaster from the perspective of cost, incentives, and value neutrality.” ~Vanessa Brown Calder
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The Religious Idiocy of ‘Limitarianism’
“To pretend that you can have all the riches of the modern world and eliminate the ability for anyone to become wealthy is a sure sign of someone who has no understanding of how all this wealth was generated in the first place.” ~James Hartley
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Mexico’s Slow-Motion Disaster
“The institutional and social checks on majoritarian power are eliminated creating an opportunity for dictatorship, and lifetime rule and enrichment through graft.” ~G. Patrick Lynch
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Supermarket Merger Muddle
“Traditional supermarkets have been losing a great deal of market share to those excluded from that definition.” ~Gary Galles
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CBDCs Undermine Financial Privacy
“Financial privacy is very important for a free society. What we do reveals much more about who we are than what we say.” ~William J. Luther
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How to Make Social Security Reform a Winning Campaign Issue
“Price indexing will remove about 80 percent of the unfunded liability gap over the next 75 years, if instituted in 2029.” ~David Rose
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Resolutions for the Fiscal New Year
“Many lawmakers in DC make resolutions to be more fiscally responsible, but much like our New Year’s resolutions, they rarely follow through.” ~Thomas Savidge
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‘You Can Trust Me’: Catfishers, Nigerian Princes, and Political Hucksters
“Individuals who we don’t know and who don’t know us seek to gain our trust so that they can then gain open-ended access to our wealth.” ~Don Boudreaux
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Stay Put or Pay Up: Why Can’t Your Mortgage Move With You?
“Once ‘locked in,’ a comparatively low mortgage rate functions as an emotional and economic anchor.” ~Laura Williams
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Spreading Democracy May Not Be in the United States’ Best Interest
“Not only is forced democratization likely to fail, but the very idea runs counter to a free, open, democratic society. Other countries should be encouraged to become democratic if they choose.” ~Andrew Byer
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Why the ‘New Yorker’ Got Fooled by Taxpayer-Funded Sex Changes for Prisoners
“Dollars allocated for gender reassignment surgeries cannot be spent on food stamps, border security, or anything else.” ~Jon Miltimore
