Category: Director’s Take
With all the global leadership and economic problems the US faces, you might think Congress would act swiftly to reauthorize a program that has established the US as a recognized world leader and raised over $230 billion for the US Treasury without raising taxes. Unfortunately, you might be wrong. Read Dr. Jamison's complete blog post [...]
The bipartisan and multinational attack on US tech companies has become incoherent. It always had weak intellectual foundations, which is why arguments against Big Tech firms are long on mantras about them being gigantic and bad, ad hominem attacks, and fearmongering. Now the arguments have become contradictory. The cases against Big Tech rest on a [...]
The recent fall in cryptocurrency (crypto) and non-fungible token (NFT) values has led to anxiety, finger wagging, and calls for regulation. This is not surprising; bitcoin prices have fallen by one-third in the last 30 days. The largest crypto exchange, Coinbase, is laying off nearly one-fifth of its workforce. And the largest crypto lender, Celsius, [...]
Progressives and their media allies have been fretting loudly that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter might enable more free speech online. They shouldn’t be afraid, at least not if their ideas can compete legitimately with those of traditional liberals, conservatives and libertarians. Who should be afraid of a Musk-led Twitter, however, [...]
Host Shirley Rooker speaks with Mark Jamison of the American Enterprise Institute, who discusses the reasons government regulation of what we see on social media is a threat to democracy. This podcast (Of Consuming Interest) can be listened to on wherever you listen to podcasts, as well as the link below.