“When you see a big, black, luxury automobile being driven by a short, fat, balding old man with a young, beautiful blond with her arm around him, what do you immediately think about his income? This is the beauty of the free-market system, because it enables short,...

Elon Musk has just passed Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg to become the second-richest man after Jeff Bezos — all of whom are worth more than $100 billion. It is estimated that the U.S. had approximately 834 billionaires last year worth a total of $3.5 trillion — only...

Scientists have done what was thought to be impossible and that is to produce COVID-19 vaccines in a matter of months. But now the real battles begin. What is the priority for delivering the vaccine? Who gets it first — medical personnel, other first responders, the...

Some of presumptive President-elect Joe Biden’s advisers have advocated a new and even more extreme shutdown of the country to allegedly stop the COVID-19 virus. Much of what is advertised as public health wisdom from the political class is nothing more than nonsense...

Jeff Bezos owns both The Washington Post and Blue Origin (a company that builds rockets and space vehicles). Three weeks ago, Blue Origin successfully tested “NASA’s active landing sensor system, which will be used to build an autonomous, precise, and flexible landing...

When this commentary is published, we will not yet know who won the presidential race. Rather than add to the stress, here is some good news to make your life a bit happier. There had been an EU report that because of climate change, rising sea levels would cause many...

We all have our biases, but there is difference between serving as a “flack” (aka PR agent) for a political campaign, organization, or a cause and holding oneself out as an objective truth seeking “journalist.” It is not just a question of semantics, because...

How would a benevolent dictator have handled the COVID-19 pandemic?  Predictably, Joe Biden is saying Donald Trump did it all wrong and caused a couple of hundred thousand people to die needlessly – a very serious charge if true.  But what was the Biden plan that...

President Trump has caused the Chinese immense difficulty. He was the first American president to call them out for their unfair trade practices, theft of intellectual property and military expansionism. Particularly since the revelation that they were responsible for...

Most voters have made some votes they regret — when they voted for a winner, and he or she did not live up to expectations. The situation is even worse when you convince someone to vote for a candidate who turns out to be a disaster. The person you convinced to make...

Whose responsibility was it to make sure that the president did not catch the COVID-19 virus? U.S. taxpayers spend a substantial sum to protect the president against physical threats — including biological threats, whether accidental or deliberate. The nation protects...

Successful countries are characterized by a fidelity to long-lasting traditions and institutions, including the rule of law. Jurisdictions characterized by few constructive traditions, weak institutions and failures to maintain the rule of law are prone to chaos. The...

Several European countries and Japan have negative interest rates — which means borrowers receive interest rather than pay interest on their loans. Federal Chairman Jerome Powell of the Federal Reserve said again this past week that the Fed will keep interest rates...

The good news is that through 2018 the world had slowly become more economically free. For more than two decades, a country ranking of economic freedom has been produced by the Fraser Institute in Canada and many other cooperating policy organizations around the...

Bad data cause bad conclusions which cause bad decisions. The medical, political and media classes have much to be embarrassed about when it comes to their statements about COVID-19. There has been endless revisionism and denial rather than forthright discussions of...

Is skin color a good predictor of income and other success among Americans? Take a look at the enclosed table, and you will notice that the highest per capita income among the large ethnic groups in the United States is from those of Asian Indian origin. Some Asian...

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...

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...