The Trump administration’s policies must run a gauntlet of lunatic left-wing judges before they can be implemented. Infrastructure of every type in the U.S. faces huge additional costs, with its real cost ten times what it was a century ago and three times that of similar infrastructure elsewhere. Mergers can be delayed for years, to […]

President Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would impose tolls on the Straits of Hormuz shocked the usual suspects but makes perfect sense (I hope he re-reverses his subsequent reversal). U.S. taxpayers have been billed for three idiotic Middle East wars in the past 25 years, and this one is only prolonged because of the Straits’ […]

The election of non-Marxist Presidents in Peru and Colombia (provided they are allowed to take office) reinforces a remarkably upbeat series of election results in Latin America. Cumulatively, those results give the whole continent a new hope of success, alas with the notable exceptions of Mexico and Brazil, still mired in hard-leftism. The question I […]

The Socialist/Communist advance in last week’s New York primary elections confirms that the U.S. political system is systematically rigged against good policy and sound economics. Two reforms are needed: a property franchise, to ensure that those without a stake in the economy cannot vote themselves handouts, and an end to the tax benefits for charities […]