I mentioned this in my last post; you should watch the presentation if you have the time. It’s lengthy but quite provocative. Student feedback was very good–they loved hearing this challenging view. Dr. Pincin and I subsequently had a follow on session the next day to discuss and we had about 30 students and faculty […]
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Dr. Art Laffer Speaking Event at CU now live
27 Mar 2025
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Trumpian fans will almost surely say “how could you not see it before?”, but I still believe it’s a reasonable response that when someone says “go and drink this poison–it will taste really good!” we should vehemently disagree. And I still disagree with his rhetoric on tariffs, but there is some small reason for optimism. […]
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Socialists of all stripes agree–the market process must be managed by the all-wise elite
04 Mar 2025
And just like the communists, they will always speak of doing it on behalf of the people. Welcome to the Peoples Republic of America (PRA), because it’s Tariff Time! Of course Mr. Trump’s supporters will vehemently disagree with me, with some justification, as Mr. Trump doesn’t want to run the whole economy. True enough. But […]
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Partisan polarization feels like a fact of life. Media outlets and social media algorithms alike gravitate toward the extremes, so much of what we hear and see confirm this perception. Our political leaders, on both sides of the aisle, appeal to the most radical parts of their base to avoid primary challengers. Common ground is […]
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Don’t Tax Me! I’m Irish!
25 Jul 2021
The Biden administration seeks to form an international agreement to establish a global minimum corporate tax at 15%. According to CNN, 132 nations back the proposal, but some notable holdouts including Ireland, block the way. The EU needs to vote unanimously to pass the proposal, so as long Ireland opposes it, there’s no deal. Over […]
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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 […]
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“I have a plan” is the mantra of the maven of Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren. But thanks to the folks at Cornerstone Macro (HT WSJ) we can see her plan for taxes, as well as the other near competitors.* None of these competitors has provided these numbers in this summary form, but each have proposed or […]
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The Mailbag! – Vol. 25
06 May 2019
Matt’s Marvelous Mailbag seeks to provide marginally adequate answers to much better questions about politics, economics, social life, theology, or any potpourri you see fit to have answered. Send questions to mailbag.bereans@gmail.com. Well, it’s just three questions this week, but that’s more by choice than necessity as two of these turned into small essays on […]
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Weekly Sage #19: Irving Fisher
15 Mar 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. Irving Fisher “We have seen that all wealth and property imply prospective services or ‘desirable events.’ It is the desirability of these future expected services which gives […]
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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” together. […]
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