Faced with President Trump’s economic moves, his centrist critics oscillate between desperation and a touching faith that his tariff frenzy will fizzle out. They assume that Trump will huff and puff until reality exposes the emptiness of his economic rationale. …
The flawed philosophy of Rachel Reeves
In 2018, in a pamphlet titled “The Everyday Economy”, a backbench Labour MP called Rachel Reeves attempted to untangle Britain’s convoluted financial system. To do so, she started by drawing upon the history of political philosophy — and the work …
The Alarming Increase in Female Healthcare Worker Suicide
The Alarming Increase in Female Healthcare Worker Suicide
by Carla Peeters at Brownstone Institute
The increasing number of suicides and fatal overdoses of women healthcare workers has accompanied rising sickness, disability, and women leaving the sector. The total social and …
Slash The Fat: 16 Agencies To Terminate
Slash The Fat: 16 Agencies To Terminate
by David Stockman at Brownstone Institute
The following is Chapter One of David Stockman’s latest book, How To Cut $2 Trillion: A Blueprint From Ronald Reagan’s Budget Cutter To Musk, Ramaswamy And The …
The Historic First Days
The Historic First Days
by David Stockman at Brownstone Institute
David Stockman’s new book is a blueprint for cutting $2 trillion from the federal budget.
Well, the Donald surely did hit the ground thundering, and some right good noise it …
America’s Fiscal Doomsday Machine Must Be Stopped
America’s Fiscal Doomsday Machine Must Be Stopped
by David Stockman at Brownstone Institute
The following is Chapter One of David Stockman’s latest book, How To Cut $2 Trillion: A Blueprint From Ronald Reagan’s Budget Cutter To Musk, Ramaswamy and The …
What Should We Be Reading?
What Should We Be Reading?
by Brownstone Institute at Brownstone Institute
We live in times of dramatic change when old categories of ideological division and hence isolation seem to have been smashed. We try to figure it out, and many …
Wildfires and the Hoary Hoax of a Burning Planet
Wildfires and the Hoary Hoax of a Burning Planet
by David Stockman at Brownstone Institute
Here they go again, blaming the wildfire catastrophe in Los Angeles on Climate Change when the actual culprits are the very politicians who never stop …
Is Trump the most libertarian president ever?
It’s unusual to have a single figure, Donald Trump, dominate the political life of a country for a decade — and for nobody, really, to have any clear definition of his core political philosophy. For much of that decade, Democrats …
Every Bureaucrat Destroys 138 Jobs
Every Bureaucrat Destroys 138 Jobs
by Peter St Onge at Brownstone Institute
An Auburn University study says every single regulator destroys fully 138 private sector jobs every year you keep him on the job.
With nearly 300,000 federal regulators, the shock is …
The Lone Star State is soaring
The United States is a misnomer. Despite its title, our republic has rarely been united, instead hosting an endless gladiatorial contest between different states and regions. In the early 19th century, New York and New England struggled for supremacy against …
The “Let It Rip” Canard: Reflections on Jay Bhattacharya
The “Let It Rip” Canard: Reflections on Jay Bhattacharya
by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute
Early in the Covid period, the skeptics of government closures and universal quarantines were denounced as favoring a policy of “let it rip.” The …
How to Cut $2 Trillion of Fat from the Federal Budget
How to Cut $2 Trillion of Fat from the Federal Budget
by David Stockman at Brownstone Institute
A goal of $2 trillion of budget savings is crucial to the very future of Constitutional democracy and capitalist prosperity in America. In …
Trump’s 19th-Century Solution to Fiscal Disaster
Trump’s 19th-Century Solution to Fiscal Disaster
by David Stockman at Brownstone Institute
In the last weeks of the campaign, Donald Trump is slicing and dicing the Federal income tax nearly as fast as he served up fries at the McDonald’s …
The Neo-Liberal Consensus Is Coming Apart
The Neo-Liberal Consensus Is Coming Apart
by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute
The global Covid response was the turning point in public trust, economic vitality, citizen health, free speech, literacy, religious and travel freedom, elite credibility, demographic longevity, and …