Incompetent Elites Make Trump Look Appealing
Wall Street Journal Oped 2/3/2024. Why people support Trump. They want their country back.
Wall Street Journal Oped 2/3/2024. Why people support Trump. They want their country back.
The Liz Truss Tragedy
The Liz Truss Tragedy. Project Syndicate Oct 25 2022 with Jon Hartley. Blog post version (undated)
The Liz Truss Tragedy. Project Syndicate Oct 25 2022 with Jon Hartley. Truss’ growth-oriented policy really was the only answer for the UK, but the messaging and politics doomed the effort. Blog post version (undated).
Time for supply
With Jon Hartley, Project Syndicate Mar 3 2022
With Jon Hartley, Project Syndicate Mar 3 2022
Flatten the Coronavirus Curve at a Lower Cost
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
How to Treat the Financial Symptoms of Covid-19
The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal
Understanding the left
“Understanding the Left.” What’s going on with the Great Awakening? Understand it as that, a quasi-religious political movement. Click title for more info.
“Understanding the Left.” February 2020. In From the Past to the Future: Ideas and Actions for a Free Society, John Taylor, Ed. Hoover Press, Ch. 18. What’s going on with the Great Awakening? Understand it as that, a quasi-religious political movement. This was before the whole movement turned to race a few months later, but the analysis still holds, and may be better for not touching that issue. Talk given at the Mt. Pelerin Society Jan 1 2020.
Imagine what we could cure
Wall Street Journal, with J. J. Plecs.
Wall Street Journal, with J. J. Plecs.
Law and the Regulatory State
In Thomas W. Gilligan, Ed., American Exceptionalism in a New Era, Hoover Institution Press, p. 57-70. Exceptionalism interpreted as the rule of law guaranteeing economic freedom. In peril, as always.
In Thomas W. Gilligan, Ed., American Exceptionalism in a New Era, Hoover Institution Press, p. 57-70. Exceptionalism interpreted as the rule of law guaranteeing economic freedom. In peril, as always.
Climate Change isn't the End of the World
Wall Street Journal with David R. Henderson. Local Copy.
Wall Street Journal with David R. Henderson. Local Copy.
Don't Believe the Economic Pessimists
Wall Street Journal. More on growth, a reaction to many voices that say growth is impossible, just give up. Local pdf
Wall Street Journal.
More on growth, a reaction to many voices that say growth is impossible, just give up. Local pdf
Trade and Immigration
An uncompromising defense of free trade and immigration. For George P. Shultz, ed., Blueprint for America Hoover Institution Press, p. 109-125.
An uncompromising defense of free trade and immigration. For George P. Shultz, ed., Blueprint for America Hoover Institution Press, p. 109-125.
Growing Risks to the Budget and the Economy
Testimony to House Budget Committee, Sept 14 2016. Economic growth is the big problem; bi-partisan policies to fix it rather than keep yelling the same talking points louder. On debt, the small probability of a debt crisis is the big problem, and how to avoid it. Oral remarks much shorter, sweeter (I get 5 minutes) but less documented.
Testimony to House Budget Committee, Sept 14 2016. Economic growth is the big problem; bi-partisan policies to fix it rather than keep yelling the same talking points louder. On debt, the small probability of a debt crisis is the big problem, and how to avoid it. Oral remarks much shorter, sweeter (I get 5 minutes) but less documented.
The Clinton Plan’s Growth Deficit
Wall Street Journal. Comments on the Hillary Clinton economic plan. See also the related blog post.
Wall Street Journal. Comments on the Hillary Clinton economic plan. See also the related blog post.
Ending America’s Slow-Growth Tailspin
WSJ oped. I try to quantify how much growth we could get out of better policy by regressing GDP per capita on the World bank's ease of doing business measure. The answer: a lot. Local pdf
WSJ oped. I try to quantify how much growth we could get out of better policy by regressing GDP per capita on the World bank's ease of doing business measure. The answer: a lot. Local pdf
How and Why we Care About Inequality
In Inequality and Economic Policy: Essays in Memory of Gary Becker, Tom Church, John B. Taylor, and Christopher Miller Eds., Stanford, CA: Hoover Press.
In Inequality and Economic Policy: Essays in Memory of Gary Becker, Tom Church, John B. Taylor, and Christopher Miller Eds., Stanford, CA: Hoover Press.