Capital Matters

30/03/2023

The National Review Institute Ideas Summit 2023 is underway! Today is Day 1 and will feature speakers like:

- Megyn Kelly
- Sen. Tom Cotton
- Former FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai
- Ian Rowe
- Charles C. W. Cooke
- David Bahnsen
- And more!

We'll be carrying the event live in its entirety.

01/09/2022

Railroads want this years-long dispute to be over, and independent recommendations are on the table. Some smaller unions have accepted, but two of the largest are hesitant.

Three smaller unions have reached a tentative agreement to avoid a strike, but two larger unions are still skeptical.

01/09/2022

ESG has created an ecosystem, staffed by people who have an interest, naturally enough, in seeing that the demand for their services increases.

The ESG ecosystem is what it is.

01/09/2022

American businesses hardly lack market incentives to make green tech. What they need is regulatory permission.

30/08/2022

Monkeypox has confirmed that people are smarter and more proactive than government bureaucrats give them credit for.

30/08/2022

Trump’s trade representative should not be a role model for conservative economic policy-makers.

30/08/2022

There is not much, if any, convincing empirical evidence that supports the claim that reducing buybacks would spur more capital expenditure or wage increases.

26/08/2022

While gasoline and food prices have attracted the public’s attention, something as fundamental as air conditioning is also becoming more expensive and will continue to do so.

Washington is thus far ignoring its culpability in the rising cost of staying cool.

25/08/2022

The proposed Open Apps Market Act threatens consumers as well as American national security.

The proposed Open Apps Market Act would expose millions of Americans to potential cyber threats.

25/08/2022

Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the new law regulating what drug manufacturers can charge will reduce patient access to prescription drugs.

The new law will likely reduce patient access to prescription drugs both in the Medicare and commercial segments.

25/08/2022

The commission’s arguments play fast and loose with market definitions to conjure threats to competition where none exist.

25/08/2022

Like many movements in America’s past, the ESG-investment crusade has taken a reasonable idea and stretched it well beyond reason.

22/08/2022

Instead of throwing away money on wind and solar power, Biden and his fellow Democrats should invest in nuclear fusion, which is much more promising.

Biden’s latest green boondoggle funnels money to known energy losers, while curbing the technologies that could prove truly transformative.

22/08/2022

What the Inflation Reduction Act's IRS expansion might entail for the future of federal taxation in red states.

Where an expanded IRS is likely to focus its efforts and what can be done about it.

22/08/2022

The government's decision to shut down PredictIt is a major blow to open and fact-based discourse on matters of public interest.

Prediction markets not only provide a treasure trove of free information, they are an alternative to the degrading public discourse.

19/08/2022

Here’s the humble reality. Economists have not “solved” recessions, inflation, unemployment, or the business cycle.

Prudence demands economic humility, and setting Washington’s finances on a course that can survive normally fluctuating economic variables.

19/08/2022

In the first read of Q2 GDP, the housing downturn accounts for virtually all the quarterly decline, and it’s just getting started. Inflation may be in for a negative shock.

With a soaring dollar, plunging deficits, and surging services consumption, this inflationary surge seems likely to follow an entirely different trajectory.

19/08/2022

After two and a half years, independent recommendations on pay and benefits for freight-rail workers are on the table.

Independent recommendations on pay and benefits are out, and the two sides have until September 16 to reach an agreement before work stoppages are permitted.