John Tamny
Forbes
Washington, DC, United States
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‘How To Save $1 Million For Retirement’ Is Headed for Obsolescence
The cost of everything is set to plummet. → Read More
Why Are Free-Market Thinkers So Fearful of CBDCs?
Markets decide what currencies circulate, not Treasury departments or central banks. → Read More
Leo Tolstoy’s ‘Anna Karenina’ Is So Much More Than a Love Story
What a great thinker Tolstoy was. How interesting to have him around today. → Read More
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Five Guys Is the Answer to Elite Fear of China’s ‘Belt and Road’ Initiative
America's best export is freedom, and the brilliant businesses that spring from it. → Read More
The Harassment of TikTok Is Embarrassing, and Un-American
Oneonta, a town of 7,000 in Alabama, can lay claim to a TikTok account that has 117,000 followers. The driver of the town’s popularity on the wildly popular social media site is Mayor Richard Ph → Read More
Harassment of TikTok Is Embarrassing, Un-American
Oneonta, a town of 7,000 in Alabama, can lay claim to a TikTok account that has 117,000 followers. The driver of the town’s popularity on the wildly popular social media site is Mayor Richard Ph → Read More
Republicans Sadly Demand Affirmative Action For Their Views
After the Chinese spy balloon was shot out of the sky over South Carolina recently, videos of it went viral. Millions of views viral. On TikTok…. It was difficult to not chuckle at this t → Read More
Rep. Mike Gallagher's Attacks On TikTok More Dangerous Than TikTok
“Is there such a thing as a private company in China? I’m not sure there is.” Those are the words of GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher, who is heading up a new House committee that the Wall St → Read More
The Fed's Reality Denial Will Not Deter Custodia's Re-shape of It
When the tragic invasion of Ukraine began last February, Russian people eager to avoid entrapment in a war that vandalized reason turned to dollars. Get it? Not only do dollars liquefy a fair amount o → Read More
William Barr's Attack On 'Big Tech' Is the Personification of Self-Unaware
Success in politics requires an impressive lack of self-awareness. Think about it. What political types must say on a daily basis, and what they must nod along to routinely vandalizes reason. Al → Read More
Joe Biden Takes On the Berenstain Bears...And Loses
“No need to worry, no need to fret. The thing for you may not have been invented yet.” – The Berenstain Bears. The Berenstain Bears is a much-beloved collection of children&rsq → Read More
As Kevin McCarthy Ascends to Speaker, a Defense of the Freedom Caucus
“Many of them are stupid and highly emotional, especially the men. Most have no historical depth. If they have little respect for institutions, it’s because they have no idea how instituti → Read More
Jonathan Haidt Decries Victimhood, Creates Millions of Victims
Young Americans need “a stiffening of the vertebrae,” according to prominent businessman Elbert Hubbard. Hubbard laments their “foolish inattention” and “dowdy indifferen → Read More
As China Retreats From Covid Lunacy, Lunacy Returns to the U.S.
China allegedly faces dark days ahead. Why, you may ask? Because of freedom from coronavirus mandates. Who fears too much freedom in China? American reporters and corona-experts. Supposedly it → Read More
Books: Seeking Meaning In Nino Strachey's 'Young Bloomsbury'
“Those were the days.” Everyone has heard it, and most have said it. But were they? Particularly in the largely free parts of the world, today invariably exceeds yesterday. Looking back to → Read More
A Walk Through Whole Foods Weakens Inflation Case
There’s a quip about Whole Foods that it’s actually “Whole Paycheck.” Get it? Not terribly witty, bur arguably indicative of remarkable progress. In an age of staggering abunda → Read More
S. Bankman-Fried Was In the Arena, Unlike His 'Shocked' Critics
A recent opinion piece by the Wall Street Journal’s Allysia Finley led with the question/title “Where Was Biden’s SEC Sheriff on Sam Bankman-Fried?” At risk of speaking for Fin → Read More
Amazon's Pursues a Variety of Ways To Reward Its Employees
When Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane offered me a job in 2003, he acknowledged that the salary potion of the offer was arguably below market. At the same time, Crane’s boundless belief in the → Read More
Amazon Invests Heavily In Robots To Lift Its Human Workers
As the valuation of Amazon has risen, so has investment in the company’s most crucial assets: the people who arrive for work each day. Since Amazon must answer to shareholders for whom it’ → Read More