With inflation higher than it has been at any time in the last thirty-five years, many are wondering what can be done to bring it back down. On Sunday, the Washington Post ran twelve short...

Inflation is skyrocketing in practically the entire world. Central banks are getting scared and beginning to announce the end of expansionary measures, also known as tapering. Why do central banks find themselves in a dilemma? Why...

As anticipated, the latest data show that prices continued to rise at an incredible pace in December. The Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCEPI), which is the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation, grew at a...

The month of January 2022 has witnessed the fastest rise in Covid-19 cases since the pandemic began. At its peak a year ago, the weekly increase in new cases had reached 1.75 million. The...

A book this ostentatiously titled can only be written by a researcher of Vaclav Smil’s caliber. The subtitle is no less intriguing: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future. Remarkably enough, this prolific and media...

Last weekend, between dealing with Winter Storm Izzy and a torrent of work to complete, I squeezed in a viewing of Adam McKay’s Don’t Look Up. So much has been said about it in the last...

We are told that comparing current Covid policies concerning the unvaccinated to Nazi-era policies is outrageous. We are told we are dishonoring the memory of the dead. No one should apologize for comparing Nazi policies with stigmatization of...

In 2021, we saw the unwinding of a number of policies and practices put in place in 2020, as well as the reversal of certain trends. Even as some states cast off lockdowns, compulsory...

f you have spent much time in the bitcoin community over the last year, you have probably seen someone claim that bitcoin is a battery. It is a common refrain, and not just among...

If the Covid policy crisis has done anything, it is to make clear that “government scientific agency” is as much of an oxymoron as military intelligence, jumbo shrimp, or Marxist economist. Government bureaucracies cannot “do”...