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. Published May 25, 2020
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. Published May 18, 2020
The Chinese Communist Party virus (aka COVID-19) is forcing people to be innovative -- and many will be constructively creative. Published May 11, 2020
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. Published May 4, 2020
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." Published April 27, 2020
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. Published April 20, 2020
How do you like being under house arrest? A bit of an overstatement -- perhaps -- but not by much. How much longer are you willing to endure it? The COVID-19 crisis has caused government -- federal, state and local -- to strip away many basic liberties. Published April 13, 2020
One of the bad ideas that is now being floated is for the federal government to take an equity stake in the airlines and some other businesses in exchange for aid, to offset the losses from the COVID-19 virus. Published April 6, 2020
The beauty of the free-market system is, if there is demand for most anything, it will be supplied in a fraction of the time that it would take for a government to try to do it. Published March 30, 2020
Someone in a nursing home with major health problems has a relatively high probability of dying from the coronavirus -- it may be sad, but the unfortunate fact is they already have a short additional life expectancy. Published March 23, 2020
In an attempt to help more Americans understand the importance of the U.S. Constitution in making America the exceptional nation that it is, Judge Douglas Ginsburg has created a three-part series, titled "A More or Less Perfect Union," Published March 16, 2020
Some have argued that the trade disruption caused by the coronavirus puts the U.S. economy in grave danger. These fears are overstated. Exports are about 11.7 percent of U.S. GDP, and imports are equal to about 14.5 percent of GDP, and much of this trade (goods and services) is likely to be little affected by the virus. Published March 9, 2020
China's economic virus is likely to be much more dangerous to the world than the COVID-19 virus. We know from history that the consequences of recessions tend to cost many more lives than disease epidemics. Published March 2, 2020
The Framers of the Constitution understood that free trade among the states, based on mutual recognition of differences in policies and natural conditions, would maximize consumer satisfaction and the wealth of the people. Published February 24, 2020
A political civil war was ignited by the Democratic governor and the new state Democratic legislature declaring war on gun owners. Virginia had been a state with few gun restrictions and wide gun ownership -- and with a low crime and murder rate. Published February 17, 2020
President Trump has nominated distinguished economist, Judy Shelton, to be a member of the Federal Reserve's (Fed) seven-person board of governors. Mrs. Shelton is under attack for her alleged "unorthodox views." Elizabeth Warren -- who advocates adding trillions of dollars in new federal spending, huge tax increases and massive new regulations -- had the gall to call Mrs. Shelton radical. Published February 10, 2020
The stock market (Dow 30) dropped by more than 600 points this past Friday -- allegedly because of greater concerns about the coronavirus outbreak which is centered in China. How big of an economic impact is it likely to have in the United States? Published February 3, 2020
Why are most internationally traded commodities, like oil, corn and aluminum, priced in U.S. dollars (USD), and why is most foreign trade invoiced in dollars? The USD is a better store of value, unit of account, and medium of exchange (that is, money) than any other major country's currency. Published January 27, 2020
Worldwide debt levels, including public, business and household debt, have reached record levels, not only in absolute terms but also as a percentage of global GDP (well over 300 percent), which is worrisome. Published January 20, 2020
The governor and the Democratic legislators in Virginia are proposing restrictive gun laws, which would make it much more difficult for law-abiding Virginians to defend themselves, as well as taking away some of their basic liberty. Published January 13, 2020
