Clearing the Tabs 5-25-2018

Some things I've read this week or will be reading over the weekend.

May 19
Learning our history and why it matters for America's future

May 20
Collapsing Iran and Venezuela Mock the Fed's Definition of Inflation

Negotiating better trade agreements

May 22
Effective Tax Rates on Business Investment Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

The False Promises of Protectionism

May 23
Let’s Grow Up, Conservatives

How Media Outlets Misinform the Public about Teacher Pay

May 24
Dambisa Moyo: inequality, growth, and the failure of liberal democracy (video and transcript)

With Cost of Living a Top Concern, Winston & Miller see Tax Cuts as a Winning Issue This Year

May 25
Midterm elections provide a surprising Republican opportunity

House Republicans Are Trying to Re-Reform Welfare

Clearing the Tabs 5-18-2018

Some things I've read this week or will be reading over the weekend.

May 12
‘What If?’ History that could’ve been

May 13
The Left-Wing Plot to Repeal the Trump Tax Cuts

Recycling, Once Embraced by Businesses and Environmentalists, Now Under Siege
Local officials raise fees and send recyclables to landfills as economics erode

May 15
The Injustices Of Keynesianism

Brian Domitrovic is worth reading every times he writes.

Why is the Farm Bill subsidizing wealthy and financially secure agribusinesses?

How Mentorship Is Healing Social Poverty in Richmond, VA

May 16
Trump has already made real progress in controlling prescription drug costs

The Top 14 Causes of Political Polarization
Why we can’t stand each other, explained.

May 17
Tom Wolfe Wrote Two Essential Pieces About The American Economy

Another piece from Brian Domitrovic this week, it's like Christmas.

May 18
Let college football players major in football. NFL or not, they'll get jobs.

How tax reform brings opportunity to poor neighborhoods

As Goes The Suburbs, So Goes The Nation?

Joel Kotkin insights are always worth your time and study.

Mike Pence's Commencement Address at Hillsdale College

Clearing the Tabs 5-11-2018

Some things I've read this week or will be reading over the weekend.

May 7
Looking Beyond One-Party Rule In California

Faux 'Retirement Crisis' Rooted In 20th Century Notion of Work

May 8
The ‘experts’ were wrong in 2016; they could be wrong in 2018 too

A Courageous Trump Call on a Lousy Iran Deal
A great line by Bret Stephens:
"Build on political sand; get washed away by the next electoral wave."

Salena Zito on ‘The Great Revolt’ (podcast)

May 9
Hispanics Score Under Trump

Cost of Living Is the Sleeper Issue of 2018
Voters less interested in Russia investigation and scandal

Birthplace of Capitalism
A great line from this piece:
"At the very least, history teaches us a simple lesson: either goods will cross the borders of the Middle East, or armies will."

May 10
Tax Revenues Jump 13% To Record High In April — When Will Dems Admit They Were Wrong About Trump's Tax Cuts?

Laffer Curve strikes again: lower tax rates produced more revenue

Time to Draw a Line on Food Stamps

Speaker Ryan Lays Out Priorities for the Remainder of the Year

May 11
The Coalition for Cultural Freedom

Kemp Foundation forum brings together business and political leaders

Newspapers Outside the Train Windows

I am reading Graham Greene's The Orient Express. Early on (page 7), Greene sets a scene as passengers are boarding their train and settling in to their seats.

The French language aside, my loyal readers know me to a loyal newspaper guy. How great to be getting settled on a train and have "newsboys" outside your window yelling the name of their newspapers for sale!

Now, if you are anything like me, the train station or airport newsstand is the first stop after my arrival, so I would not necessarily benefit from these guys just outside the train window, but wow, I would love to see people outside my window peddling newspapers.

Clearing the Tabs 5-4-2018

Some things I've read this week or will be reading over the weekend.

April 28
The Negative Impact of the #MeToo Movement

April 29
Starbucks Is Not the Next Selma

Today’s protests are a useful diversion for those who reap the profits of the race-grievance industry.

April 30

The Economic Case for Free Trade Is Stronger Than Ever
But working-class identity politics threaten to ruin everything.

McCarthy Expresses Confidence in GOP Prospects this Year
“As long as we stay on offense, we stay in the majority.”

We can learn much about the American Dream from ex-offenders who turn their lives around

We’ll All Be Paying Trump’s Hidden Tax
Tariffs hurt American consumers.

May 1
Tax Reform for Progressives

Going After Big Oil, Louisiana Follows NY's Lead

Private Sector, Not Government, Is Key to Job Creation
Bernie Sanders is all wrong, but federal policies can encourage work

What's worse than tariffs?

May 2
House Speaker Paul Ryan, Majority Whip Steve Scalise contribute to initiative to repeal California's gas-tax increase

Learning Is a Learned Behavior. Here’s How to Get Better at It.

May 3
How Supply-Side Economics Spawned The 1980s Boom
Nice, brief recap of Robert Bartley's life, work, and legacy.

Opportunity sprouts in impoverished areas, thanks to tax reform
One of the great upsides to the tax reform package signed into law last December is a takeoff on "enterprise zones" which are called "opportunity zones" in the tax bill.

"These Opportunity Zones and their related Opportunity Funds should be very attractive to investors sitting on large, unrealized capital gains who want to both benefit from tax deferral on their original investment and potentially get a tax-free windfall from investing in some of the poorest areas of the country."

Book Review: The Great Revolt by Salena Zito and Brad Todd

May 4
The Media Is Killing the Democratic Party
The Democratic message has been reduced to Russia and Stormy Daniels

Hope for those trapped in welfare dependency -- Thanks to Trump