The WSJ’s Holman Jenkin’s reviewed the SEC’s tough problem with Elon Musk and Tesla in last night’s edition. The problem is that Elon has a pretty ugly relationship with the stock market, since while he has cultivated quite a passionate following for his own activities and dreams (leading to high stock prices), there are many […]
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What to do with Elon, SEC style
15 Aug 2018
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Short musings on today’s politics–conservatives lose Ohio, Trumpian trade travails, and the “S” word
08 Aug 2018
As wake this morning, the bellwether Ohio special election is too close to call, with Republican Troy Balderson a mere 1500 votes up with 3000 provisional votes and other absentee votes yet uncounted. I suspect he’ll hold on given the red nature of that seat. But conservatives have already lost as he is a panderer […]
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I’ve been criticizing Mr. Trump for trade for some time now, and unfortunately I don’t think that’s going to let up anytime soon. However, I want to continue to give him credit in this limited sense: Presidents (and politicians generally) don’t make the economy grow faster, but what they can do is take away the […]
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Mr. Trump’s Monetary Machinations
23 Jul 2018
Mr. Trump extended his economic mischief this past week by opining that the Federal Reserve should slow down the rate hikes, as these hikes are leading to a stronger dollar (true) and hurting the U.S. (false). Now Mr. Trump is just doing what politicians of all stripes (especially politicians that follow Keynesian economics) have often […]
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Whirlpool’s cronyism backfires on them
16 Jul 2018
Whirlpool helped start the cronyism trade policies of the Trump Administration with their cries of unfair practices by their toughest competitors, including Samsung. In the WSJ today (gated), we see that it hasn’t perhaps worked out the way that Whirlpool intended. When they initially had tariffs enacted on washing machines, Marc Bitzer, the chief executive […]
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Mr. Trump is apparently going to get his trade war, and I predict a colossal failure. But this is one war I’ll be glad for the U.S. to lose. Just as there is really no victor in war (in the sense that the lives that were lost are forever gone), so too will whatever trade […]
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Could Russell Moore be wrong? Maybe we don’t need less Christian engagement in Politics, maybe we need more?
25 Apr 2018
I love Russell Moore; I greatly enjoy his teaching and respect much of what I hear from him. Yet while a foolish person may be occasionally right, so too can a wise person be occasionally wrong. In an article over at 9Marks, Dr. Moore suggests that politics has consumed the Christian church. I read into […]
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Federal Jobs For All! Yes, that’s what we need!
24 Apr 2018
So says Bernie Sanders, or at least that is a bill he is trying to put together. As reported over at The Hill, Sanders’ program would provide everyone at least $15/hr, in either work or training. They would also receive health care. Darrick Hamilton, an economist at The New School, told the Washington Post, “The […]
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Trump v China
09 Apr 2018
Mr. Trump likes to think of himself as a free trader, but in his mind, free trade isn’t free (or at least mutually beneficial) when the other side is continually cheating. I tend to be very skeptical of Mr. Trump’s trade policies, especially since his stated logic is grounded in fundamental fallacies, such as the […]
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I have always been puzzled by progressives unyielding faith in government as the solution to social problems, and indeed, almost always the federal government. In my mind, the repeated and demonstrable failures of government to solve problems that are unrelated to its constitutional (or better yet, Biblical) roles should give everyone pause. Yet progressives do […]