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Life and Debt - Taki's Magazine
17+ hour, 25+ min ago (303+ words) Opening the magazine at random, my eyes fell immediately on this headline: Brown's Britain is broke and creeping towards the ignominy of an IMF bail-out. This is precisely the situation today, except that the governmental incompetent in charge has changed,…...
The Economists Got 2025 All Wrong
1+ week, 3+ day ago (335+ words) Well, Donald Trump has done it again! He stumped the chumps. The "chumps" in this case were the "blue-chip" academic and financial economists whose consensus forecast this time last year was of high inflation and low economic growth. Wrong on…...
How Trump Can Help Accelerate Argentina’s Economic Comeback
1+ mon, 18+ hour ago (450+ words) President Donald Trump and Argentine President Javier Milei have a special relationship. Each is engaged in a crusade to make his respective country's economy great again. Trump was all in on helping Milei win his elections earlier this year, and…...
A Crippled Economy
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (646+ words) A strange new phenomenon is taking place in U.K. skies. Paralyzed Indians are flying into the country needing wheelchairs and then quite happily springing up and walking away from their seats cured as soon as they set foot on blessed British…...
What’s the Matter With Economists?
2+ mon, 5+ day ago (1768+ words) Caricature of Young's wives, published after his death I was reading a new academic paper from the Journal of Political Economy titled "How Social Structure Drives Innovation: Surname Diversity and Patents in U.S. History" on how Diversity Was Our Strength in…...
How to Make Sure the US Dominates 21st-Century Telecommunications
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (373+ words) Takimerch sale now on! 25% off everything for a very limited time Trump's announcement and executive order to ensure that the U.S. dominates the artificial intelligence revolution was a welcome America First policy directive. That mostly means keeping the government out of…...
War on Capitalism
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (462+ words) Takimerch sale now on! 25% off everything for a very limited time New York Stock Exchange Capitalism gets a lot of hate. I expect it from the left. They blame free markets for racism, "horrifying inequality" and even, according to Economist…...
Why the CBO Almost Always Gets It Wrong
7+ mon, 17+ hour ago (476+ words) Takimerch sale now on! 25% off everything for a very limited time These days it seems that a mysterious group called "the CBO" rules the world, or at least Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, it's not very good at predicting things, and its bad…...