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Initial Excuses for Lockdowns Were the Worst Ones
John Tamny writes for Real Clear Politics about the bad excuses that led governments toward lockdowns in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Let’s travel back in time to…
John Tamny
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Budget, Taxation & Economy
Inequality and a better life
John Tamny‘s latest column for Real Clear Markets challenges the popular notion that increased inequality must be bad. In 1989 then prominent computer maker Tandy released the Tandy 5000. Though…
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Forbes touts a book that counters Keynesianism
Steve Forbes reviews for the latest issue of Forbes magazine a book that challenges key misguided assumptions of Keynesian thought. JOHN TAMNY’S LATEST effort, Who Needs the Fed? (Encounter Books,…
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Forbes battles a common economic misperception
The latest issue of Forbes magazine features Steve Forbes‘ rebuttal of a dangerous misconception about the way an economy works. ONE OF THE MOST pernicious ideas polluting economic understanding–and policymaking–is…
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Rubio’s interventionist streak
During the recent debate, Senator Marco Rubio was asked about federal agricultural subsidies, especially for sugar. His answer was a disturbing one, revealing an interventionist streak. John Tamny calls Rubio…
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John Tamny tries explaining simple reality to Hillary
Forbes writer John Tamny (whose book Popular Economics is great reading) attempts in this piece to explain why laws that make it hard to fire a worker get in the…
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Will younger Americans realize that big government is their enemy?
The mega-state created by generations of Republicans and Democrats has so whittled away our freedom and distorted our economy that younger people will find it very difficult to live as…
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Abolish antitrust laws?
Gene Epstein reviews for Barron’s a “lively defense of free markets” by John Tamny, editor of RealClearMarkets. It’s titled Popular Economics: What the Rolling Stones, Downton Abbey, and LeBron James…
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Does Jennifer Anniston’s marital state relate to unemployment?
Yes, argues John Tamny in this piece. Tamny is terrific at finding interesting ways to explain economics to ordinary people and here he shows that just as Jennifer Anniston’s choice…
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A lesson about capitalism from the Super Bowl
Those who appreciate Joseph Schumpeter’s notion of the importance of creative destruction, along with those who understand the importance of loss in a system of profit and loss, might appreciate…
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Leef asks Forbes readers to consider how much wealthier we could be
George Leef’s latest Forbes column relies on the wisdom of Frederic Bastiat to explain that the American economy could be much more prosperous without all the government meddling that has…
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John Tamny nails the truth
In this Forbes column, John Tamny nails a tremendously important truth: our growing leviathan government doesn’t doom us in a Hobbesian, back to the state of nature way. Rather, its…