by Richard W. Rahn | Jun 20, 2023
Too many senior executives of publicly owned companies seem to have forgotten that they have a fiduciary and moral responsibility to maximize long-term profits for the benefit of their stockholders. It is not their job to save the planet from climate change, end...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jun 12, 2023
“Most likely, lockdowns represent the biggest policy mistake of modern times.” This past week, the most comprehensive study to date — a 220-page book — of the effect of lockdowns (written by Lars Jonung, professor emeritus at Sweden’s Lund University, Jonas Herby of...
by Richard W. Rahn | Jun 5, 2023
If women, on average, are as intelligent or perhaps more so than men (which they are), why did women most often obtain the right to vote decades after men? The only country that had granted women the right to vote before 1900 was New Zealand. The U.S. granted the...
by Richard W. Rahn | May 29, 2023
How tall are you? How much do you weigh? What is the net value of your assets? The answers to all of these questions change over time — they are variables. Your height changes over the years — as you grow from an infant and then into middle age, you begin to shrink —...
by Richard W. Rahn | May 23, 2023
Take a look at the nearest food package. Notice there is a list of ingredients that tells you how many calories and other useful information. Most of us assume that the information is largely accurate because we know the manufacturer can be sued for misleading us. Do...