Richard W. Rahn

Americans freely finding common bonds with one another is not racism

Is skin color a good predictor of income and other success among Americans?

August 31, 2020

Unmasking anti-capitalist capitalists in the age of Black Lives Matter

Goodyear tire company managed to get itself in a dust-up this past week when someone in authority at the company decided it was OK for employees to wear Black Lives Matter insignias but not Blue Lives Matter or All Lives Matter, etc.

August 24, 2020

Sensible Americans flee New York and California to states with lower taxes and safer lifestyles

Less arrogant and more sensible Americans have been migrating to states like Texas, Tennessee and Florida, where taxes are lower, regulations fewer and more sensible, and where the Bill of Rights is taken seriously.

August 17, 2020

Americans erect statues of leaders for inspiration not perfection

In the name of political correctness, should the 3,200-year-old statue of the Egyptian pharaoh and slaveholder Ramesses II be destroyed? How about the 2,500-year-old statue of slave owner Socrates?

August 10, 2020

COVID-19 pandemic drastically alters the future workplace

COVID-19 is greatly speeding up the death of low-skilled or unskilled jobs. Likewise, the era of physical shopping areas with many thousands of potential customers close together is also rapidly dying due to new technologies and potential pandemics.

August 3, 2020

The economic costs of riots and COVID-19 lockdowns

The COVID-19 lockdowns and the riots will cause real incomes of most citizens in the United States and much of the world to be significantly lower than they would otherwise be, and personal misery to be higher.

July 27, 2020

Supporters of Black Lives Matter in denial of real-world consequences

History cannot be rewritten, which makes it even more important to treat all as distinct individuals with the same rights.

July 20, 2020

How India, China and the United States compete for global influence

Will China overtake the Untied States and will India catch up to China? The world's three most populous countries are in an increasingly competitive struggle for global influence and domination.

July 13, 2020

Remembering Fred Singer and Dennis Avery, extreme environmental science critics

From the beginning of the extreme environmental movement, there were a number of serious scientific critics, including Fred Singer and Dennis Avery.

July 6, 2020

How China and Jeff Bezos benefit from BLM protests, businesses burned and monuments destroyed

Who is funding the Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests and riots and why?

June 29, 2020

Google and NBC try to censor free speech with ad bans for The Federalist and Zero Hedge

Those who wish to control the lives of others are always with us -- and not just in government, but also in the media and increasingly in high tech.

June 22, 2020

New barbarians deny free speech to others and destroy historical artifacts

"Barbarians" are groups of people who engage in wanton destruction of civilized places and institutions. Barbarians are driven by a desire for others' material goods, through theft (looting), and for power.

June 15, 2020

Politicians use COVID-19 war to destroy small businesses

The COVID-19 racket to destroy small business has not been enough for some politicians. In a number of cities where the riots have occurred, the police have been ordered to stand down or in other ways not to protect small businesses.

June 8, 2020

How much should the government borrow to cover infrastructure costs?

Borrowing to cover current operating costs of government and involuntary transfer payments are harmful because it puts an obligation in the form of higher taxes on future generations many of whom are unborn.

June 1, 2020

‘You are not going to die from COVID-19’

Good news (please see the accompanying table)! If you are under 65, in reasonably good health and do not have a vitamin D deficiency, you have only a tiny chance of dying from COVID-19. And if you are younger than 34, your chances of dying from the virus are so small as to be almost statistically undetectable.

May 25, 2020

Deflation or inflation: COVID-19 economic chaos

Are prices going to soar or are they going to collapse as a result of the ongoing economic chaos? There are economic "experts" making the case for a coming deflation while others argue that a great inflation is coming.

May 18, 2020

Chinese Communist Party virus pushes American innovation and automation

The Chinese Communist Party virus (aka COVID-19) is forcing people to be innovative -- and many will be constructively creative.

May 11, 2020

Government’s short-sighted strategy to COVID-19 pandemic destroying America

The data is clear, the U.S. lockdown for COVID-19 did not measurably change the mortality rate in the United States. In addition, the models were wrong, period. Their predictions failed empirically.

May 4, 2020

Eighty percent of the population has little or nothing to fear from COVID-19

It is wrong to restrict the freedoms of everyone, destroy economic prosperity, and in many cases deny people the opportunity to work -- all in the name of "saving their lives."

April 27, 2020

Paying workers for not working and businesses for not producing has disastrous consequences

You, your children and your grandchildren are going to be made much poorer than you all would have been because of the ignorance and bad decision-making of most of the world's political leaders.

April 20, 2020