Richard W. Rahn

Despite incompetent leadership and woke doomsayers’ predictions, life will get better

This is the time of year for good cheer and optimism. Most everything will get better -- health, life spans, economic prosperity, etc.

December 19, 2022

America’s workforce and the law of diminishing returns

There is an adage: In any organization, 20% of the people do 80% of the work, and 80% of the people do 20% of the work.

December 12, 2022

The vicious journalists, scientists and politicians who blame others for their misdeeds

Part of being a child is partially living in fantasyland -- which makes the pain of growing up much easier.

December 5, 2022

COP27’s green agenda will leave many out in the cold this winter

The U.N. annual climate conference (COP27) that just concluded in Egypt might have set the record for the greatest number of bad ideas ever presented at a major international conference.

November 28, 2022

High cost of corruption around the world

Why are some countries rich and others very poor? At the top of this list, put corruption -- both policy and personal.

November 21, 2022

How to stop inflation

Inflation makes you rich -- well, not exactly -- but it can make you appear rich.

November 14, 2022

Teaching Biden about energy and climate change

Last week, President Biden attacked the coal industry. He said his administration was going "to be shutting down these plants all across America..."

November 7, 2022

How much money should we spend to protect Congress, the Cabinet and Supreme Court?

The attack on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul, again presents the question of which public officials should receive protection and how far should it pertain to family members.

October 31, 2022

Unrestrained government spending is resulting in a money meltdown

Those who study both the physical and behavioral sciences should have learned that there are consequences to every action -- some good and some not so good -- often referred to as stage II.

October 24, 2022

The dangers of too much power in the hands of one person

Political instability is rising, and the citizens of the world are more fearful, with good reason.

October 17, 2022

The never-ending state of rotten and excessive government

Norway would be almost the ideal country if it were not a bit cold for my tastes.

October 10, 2022

Gore, Kerry go after World Bank President Malpass on global warming comments

The president of the World Bank, David Malpass made an unforgivable error this past week by admitting he did not precisely know how much of the current global warming is caused by man.

October 3, 2022

The coming Chinese-Russian conflict

President Xi Jinping of China is probably looking at the Russian debacle in Ukraine and thinking, "Putin needs me, but I don't need him."

September 26, 2022

Replacing the queen on currency serves no good purpose

With the passing of the queen, there has been much discussion about whether the monarchy and all the various paper currencies with a portrait of the Queen should be replaced.

September 19, 2022

Good news about economic freedom for former communist countries

The annual Economic Report of the World was just published by the Fraser Institute and a number of other think tanks.

September 12, 2022

Biden and Democrats’ buying votes through fiscal irresponsibility

Do you understand quantum physics? There are few physicists who claim to fully understand it, and there is still much disagreement among them about some core aspects of quantum physics.

September 5, 2022

Larger government cannot make things better

Over the period from 1980 and 2018, "the world's population rose by 71.2 percent, yet the average working time to earn enough money to buy 50 kinds of energy, food, raw materials, and metals fell by 71.6 percent.

August 29, 2022

Electrical energy future incorporates fusion, geothermal and hydro plants

The good news is that the world will be awash with clean and inexpensive energy; the bad news is that utopia may be up to a century off due to government drag.

August 22, 2022

Democrats’ new $739 billion bill benefits elites, leaves middle class behind

If you had been aware of the following facts, would you have voted for the just-passed climate and health care bill?

August 15, 2022

War between China and Taiwan would create global chaos

An economical and/or hot war between China and Taiwan will be a global economic and political disaster.

August 8, 2022