The U.S. and NATO must fight

The U.S. and NATO must fight (Coauthored with Elizabeth Fama) Why are we — the U.S., NATO, the civilized western world — not fighting for ...

Important questions unasked of the Fed

This weekend's WSJ essay " How the Fed Averted Economic Disaster "  by Nick Timiraos finally brings into public discussion the...

More infrastructure snafu

Just as I hit publish on my last post , the Wall Street Journal publishes a much better essay  by Ted Nordhaus on the impossibility of build...

Drowning in paperwork

The US, and New York State in particular, are embarked on a decarbonization agenda. Canada has a lot of hydropower to spare, which emits on ...

Free to transact

What rights do we need to guarantee our political freedom. Well, the right to speak freely, of course. The right peaceably to assemble, and ...

Is the Fed really clairvoyant?

  Fed Pick Raskin Tries to Mollify GOP Critics on Climate Stance is the Bloomberg.com headline.  I previously praised Raskin for the clar...

Covid tests parable

The saga (WSJ) of "free" Covid testing is a great parable for many things wrong with the American health payments system.  ... ...