by Richard W. Rahn | Aug 24, 2020
Some people are so out of touch with the world around them, they are shocked when others react in predictable ways to their idiocy. Goodyear tire company managed to get itself in a dust-up this past week when someone in authority at the company decided it was OK for...
by Richard W. Rahn | Aug 17, 2020
The smartest people (just ask them) are those who work for the big high-tech firms, investment banks and big media companies. They tend to live around San Francisco (Silicon Valley), Los Angeles, Portland, the Seattle area, New York and Chicago. For years, they have...
by Richard W. Rahn | Aug 10, 2020
In the name of political correctness, should the 3,200-year-old statue of the Egyptian pharaoh and slaveholder Ramesses II be destroyed? How about the 2,500-year-old statue of slave owner Socrates? Thinking people understand that it would be a travesty and an act of...
by Richard W. Rahn | Aug 4, 2020
COVID-19 is greatly speeding up the death of low-skilled or unskilled jobs. Likewise, the era of physical shopping areas with many thousands of potential customers close together is also rapidly dying due to new technologies and potential pandemics. In a normal...
