On September 5, New York City implemented a handful of new regulations targeting short term rentals. Most notably, those hoping to rent out their property must register with the city and be present on the premises during the rental period. This kills many Airbnbs and Vrbos where the owners are not always on the property […]
Archives
-
Home (Not) Alone: New York’s Airbnb Crackdown
18 Sep 2023
-
Shock! The Biden Administration plans to increase taxes later in 2021 as part of a larger legislative package. Many conservatives reflexively say this is going to slam the economy (and I don’t disagree, especially the way the Biden administration plans to go about it), but the point of this blog post is to argue that […]
-
Deutsche Bank recently conducted a study and proposed a new tax. Whenever you tax something, you get less of it. If you subsidize something, you get more of it. Deutsche’s central desire is to tax people working from home (WFH) to redistribute that money to people who cannot work from home along with reducing the […]
-
California laws are worse than ineffective
16 Aug 2020
In my last blog post, Caleb defended California against my critique, as he’s proud to be a Californian. Now perhaps I was too harsh, as CA has a lot going for it. But I still struggle to see the positive aspects of its progressive legal vision. Today, in advance of starting school tomorrow, I took […]
-
This is a claim I make to our principles students in the first part of our economics class, as I reflect on the economic way of thinking, a discussion topic fairly standard in more textbooks. Essentially, the economic way of thinking forces one to fully consider all costs and all benefits of any choice. In […]
-
Weekly Sage #11: Jacob Viner – Chicago School
18 Jan 2019
The Weekly Sage hopes to regularly bring brief profiles of key contributors to thought and faith before a Christian audience for historical education and awareness of valuable resources. Sometimes history brings together a special combination of resources and people that form a center of intellectual influence. The Weekly Sage will occasionally consider such “Schools” […]
-
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 […]
-
In his campaign, Mr. Trump said we were going to be so successful that we would get tired of winning. Count me as not yet weary. Over the last few weeks, there were two big stories with EPA which are worth highlighting. In general, Mr. Trump has gone with a full scale assault on the […]
-
I happened to catch a couple of minutes of the Rush Limbaugh program, in which he was playing some snippets from an interview of Kurt Anderson and Charlie Rose on PBS, on the subject of Anderson’s new book, Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire. The theme of the books seems to center on how conservative talk […]
-
I have refrained from writing about health care recently until I could get a better handle on what would happen. It seems I now have a better handle–for now at least. The Senate bill or its iterations was likely doomed to failure for this reason: There were and are at least three factions at cross-purposes: […]
Bert Wheeler
Jeff Haymond
Marc Clauson
Mark Caleb Smith
Tom Mach