Senior Fellow @ceidotorg. Freedom, finance, and abundance. Host of the @freethe_economy podcast. Substack: https://xitter.cf/t.co/oe9Z6ArxlV. #FreeCon
Washington, D.C.
Joined October 2008
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Substack has finally gone mainstream and respectable (I have joined). My account is called Great Capitalism, and my launch post is here: greatcapitalism.substack.com…
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Very funny that billionaires are like “I am leaving”. And Zucman’s response is “sorry no, my theory doesn’t allow this”
Pitch: Paul Rudd stars in a sequel to Wet Hot American Summer, except it takes place at Camp Looksmax.
Parents panic after teen son vanishes from home - and they find out he spent $7K at Clavicular's 'Camp Looksmax' trib.al/wJ8EMEt
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Imagine drafting a billionaire tax proposal so sloppy & awful that the California Teachers Association recommends voting no & begins offering technical assistance to help activists become less incoherent & dangerous
Economics argument that the proposed California billionaire tax would be net negative for revenue.
As a political economy complement, note that the CA teachers union has decided to recommend voting "no" on the initiative.
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Mass timber is a really promising new construction technology that I'm very excited about! (even wrote a whole report on it last year) So I'm very pleased to see this new bill get introduced in Congress that will accelerate the mass timber rollout. Cool stuff!
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Acton Affiliate Scholar @DrSamuelGregg joined @DanHugger on the Acton Line podcast to discuss classical liberalism, the market economy, and how these structures lead to flourishing societies.
This book is also going to be the main topic for Episode 196 of @freethe_economy, dropping tomorrow morning!
buzzsprout.com/2096503/episo…
Had a wonderful conversation with @CatoInstitute 's @chellivia about her great new book *The Grim Old Days: An Introduction to the Preindustrial Past* for the latest episode of @ActonInstitute 's podcast.
Humanity has come a long way, baby!
youtube.com/watch?v=Nru6GMHl…
Goal: Pursue policy reforms so novel and eccentric that every update needs to remind people that you are not, at least this time, doing a bit.
God bless these brave young activists. I also wrote about this for the @ceidotorg blog in 2015: cei.org/blog/onions-have-no-…
je suis Tomiko Harvey.
Based on the writer's account, he has a middle seat two rows up. She wanted her to give up her aisle seat. nypost.com/2026/10/19/lifest…
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The only way we’ve built nuclear at scale & affordably is by building the same reactor again and again. But we’ve forgotten how to do that.
Glad to see TNC renewing that playbook. Ambitious to build 6 AP1000s, but if they can apply lessons from Vogtle 3➡️4, this would be huge.
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When even Starbucks is moving away from aggressive climate/ESG policies, you know something's afoot in corporate America.
In my latest for @AIER, I explain how years of shareholder engagement may be vindicated by the coffee giant's recent 'green pivot.' Read below.⏬
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The past--even the recent past--is littered with corporate goliaths once thought to be unstoppable (Borders, RedBox, AOL, PanAm, A&P...). Worth remembering in an era of rising calls for economic regulation.
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Prediction Markets Are Not "Just Gambling' Platforms
"Why would a sports bar across the street from Chicago’s Wrigley Field put a money stake on the Cubs failing? Rizzo’s, a 20,000-square-foot bar in Wrigleyville, did just that. It bought a contract that would pay if the Cubs hosted fewer than two home playoff games. The Cubs then lost both Wild Card games to the Padres in San Diego, triggering the payout.
The logic is called “hedging.”"
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This was a great conversation. Give it a listen:
Had a wonderful conversation with @CatoInstitute 's @chellivia about her great new book *The Grim Old Days: An Introduction to the Preindustrial Past* for the latest episode of @ActonInstitute 's podcast.
Humanity has come a long way, baby!
youtube.com/watch?v=Nru6GMHl…
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Need to make sure this is a concerted effort, not a one-off "surge" of enforcement
Interesting: @limebike has banned 1,000 users in D.C. over the last month for violating rules on the use of its e-scooters and bikes, including underage users, dangerous riding, and more. This comes amidst concerns over improper use and rule-breaking on the bikes and scooters.
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CEI President Kent Lassman and Adjunct Fellow Brian Rankin spoke at the Philadelphia Club on the moral foundations of free enterprise as laid out by Adam Smith, and its enduring importance today.
New study on regulatory capture: "Certain modern regulatory frameworks can, under identifiable structural conditions, invert their protective purpose by embedding private gatekeeping authority or asymmetric enforcement power."
cei.org/studies/the-protecti…
