by Richard W. Rahn | Jan 15, 2019
Who should pay for your health care? For your education? For your retirement? “Socialism,” we are told by the pollsters, is gaining in popularity at least the romanticized versions of it. It would be a world without poverty where people have everything they need, and...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jan 8, 2019
Bully: “A person who uses strength or power to harm or intimidate those who are weaker.” In civilized societies, children are taught not to bully. The “#MeToo” movement has declared war on adult sexual bullies. But there is one area where the bullies have not been...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jan 1, 2019
My New Year’s wish for the coming year is for more of my fellow Americans and others to learn some basic history and try to get a grip on reality. Someone who writes for The New York Times under the name of Michelle Alexander wrote a column published last week, “Who...
by Richard W. Rahn | Dec 25, 2018
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell just announced another quarter-point interest rate hike. The markets immediately responded by dropping several hundred points. In his arrogant and smug statement, Mr. Powell told us that the economy needed higher interest rates....
by Richard W. Rahn | Dec 11, 2018
Zurich What do the Paris riots, Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, the dusky gopher frog and Peter Wallison’s new book “Judicial Fortitude” all have in common? They are all signs that the peasants have had it with the bureaucratic state and the smug elitists who...
