This week on the Free the Economy podcast we cover Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, fraud in broadband deployment, and housing affordability. Our guest this week is James Copland of the Manhattan Institute. We talk about the future of financial regulation: www.buzzsprout.com/2096503/epis...
Investing in the Mixed Economy: Lessons from Paris
greatcapitalism.substack.com/p/investing-...
William Easterly's latest book "Violent Saviors" is a history of colonialism, but also a love letter to Adam Smith and his legacy of humane liberalism. My review for AIER: thedailyeconomy.org/article/viol...
My guest for Episode 162 of Free the Economy is Alex Durante of the Tax Foundation. We discuss the impact of Trump tariff policy on manufacturing, economic growth, and jobs. Timely! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH2c... (2/2)
Episode 162 of Free the Economy is here! This week we cover the sneaky (federal) cause of high housing prices, record outflows from ESG investment funds, and why YouTube and Instagram shouldn’t be legally liable for the emotional problems of teenagers: www.buzzsprout.com/2096503/epis... (1/2)
President Trump's use of sweeping "emergency" powers to impose tariffs is unlawful, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Friday.
Read more: reason.com/2026/02/20/t...
SCOTUS, just now: "...we hold that IEEPA does not authorize the President to impose tariffs."
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
INTERVIEW: Total Boomer Luxury Communism with Russ Greene. "Should We Be Taxing Young Adults to Pay for Elder Amenities?"
greatcapitalism.substack.com/p/interview-...
New from me on Substack: The American Dream is not dead, podcasting edition. greatcapitalism.substack.com/p/podcasting...
Here's our blog post summary for Episode 159 of the Free the Economy podcast, with links to all of the stories we covered (3/3): cei.org/blog/free-th...
Our guest for Episode 159 is Brian Albrecht, chief economist of the International Center for Law and Economics. We talk about economic growth, happiness, statistics, and the meaning of gross domestic product, or GDP (2/3): www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIlJ...
This week on Episode 159 of the Free the Economy podcast we talk about the last 50 years of regulatory reform, a new study on climate adaptation, and reforms to Kentucky’s property tax system (1/3): www.buzzsprout.com/2096503/epis...
Also, see Grant Dever's recent FREOPP blog post, "How the SPEED Act can deliver on permitting reform" here: freopp.org/oppblog/how-...
New at Substack, I review the book "FDR: A New Political Life" by historian David Beito. Short version: Roosevelt had a lot more failings and scandals than most textbooks will tell you about! greatcapitalism.substack.com/p/review-of-...
Thanks to my insightful friend Grant Dever of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity for joining the Free the Economy podcast for Episode 158! We talk about energy, abundance, permitting, affordability, and why Congress should pass the SPEED Act: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2qy...
INTERVIEW: China’s Economy and the U.S. with Derek Scissors.
The future of tariffs, Taiwan, and the flow of rare earth minerals: greatcapitalism.substack.com/p/interview-...
Thanks to Ross Kerber of Reuters Sustainable Finance for quoting me in his recent story:
"A back-of-envelope evaluation of national tax rates and freedom levels"
www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Younger workers are getting squeezed to finance gold-plated retirements for people 65+ in America today. Public policy expert Russ Greene joins the Free the Economy podcast to explain Total Boomer Luxury Communism: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDBa...
Perverse Incentives of Gas Mileage Regulations:
CAFE standards were supposed to save consumers money at the pump but created a litany of second-order problems
greatcapitalism.substack.com/p/perverse-i...
I recently had the opportunity to interview my longtime Competitive Enterprise Institute colleague Marlo Lewis, Jr. about new developments in climate policy, and we covered a lot of interesting territory: greatcapitalism.substack.com/p/interview-...
New interview for Episode 155 of the Free the Economy podcast, "China’s Economy and the U.S. with Derek Scissors" of AEI & China Beige Book: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CHo...
I'm afraid we're all rather spoiled, here on the English Riviera.
Scapegoating investors may be politically satisfying, as is often the case. It also distracts from the actual binding constraint: America doesn’t build enough homes, people! Fix that, and Wall Street’s role will shrink on its own: www.aei.org/economics/am...
Substack has finally gone mainstream and respectable (I have joined). My new account is called Great Capitalism, and my launch post is here: greatcapitalism.substack.com/p/great-capi...
Episode 154 of Free the Economy is here. This week we talk about tariffs, ACA subsidies, Books of the Year, and how Santa landed on Trump’s naughty list. Our guest is Marlo Lewis. We talk about the EPA’s “endangerment finding” and the future of climate policy: www.buzzsprout.com/2096503/epis...
Great lecture on the Christmas story in Western art: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zh4...
Episode 153 of the Free the Economy podcast is here! We talk about electric vehicles, home appliances, the failure of tariffs, & the rise of climate realism. Our guest this week is James Erwin, who tells us about what the CFPB is doing wrt bank privacy:
www.buzzsprout.com/2096503/epis...
A lot of otherwise confusing relationship configurations seem to be built off of asexual people not IDing as such. My theory, fwiw, is that a non-trivial portion of the male incel world is actually asexual young men not being able to deal w/ being ace and resorting to performative misogyny instead.
It's interesting, btw, how the National Park Service describes the memorial today. They say that "his methods gained popularity in Europe and the United States" (true) but also that "Modern medical consensus holds that homeopathic remedies have no demonstrated efficacy." www.nps.gov/places/000/d...
I think about this issue every time I walk past Massachusetts & Rhode Island Aves in D.C., where there's a monument to Samuel Hahnemann, the creator of homeopathy. His system was popular and influential when the memorial was created in 1900. (Its dedication was attended by President McKinley.)
