John Tamny argues that once a wealthy person's needs are met, extra money tends to be invested—and that taxing wealth reduces opportunity. From The Powerline Show, November 2019. How do wealth taxes affect opportunity?

David Bahnsen joins John Tamny's keynote dinner panel at COSM 2026. The founder and CIO of The Bahnsen Group takes up where the U.S. economy is headed with Steve Forbes and George Gilder. Nov. 18. @DavidBahnsen #COSM2026

Washington borrows with ease because lenders see too much tax revenue now and expect even more later. In Tamny's telling, government debt is a symbol of confidence in the ongoing taxation of the rich. What actually backs the borrowing?

Jacobsen says Trump's promised $5,000 to each adult U.S. citizen, if Republicans hold Congress, will be paid for by future generations. Tamny disagrees: government consumption's horrors land now as less progress, less freedom, and reduced wages. When does the bill come due?

In 2024 Treasury fined Toronto-Dominion's U.S. arm $1.3 billion after a fentanyl network routinely deposited cash there. Purposefully? John Tamny argues it's difficult to make such a case. What did the fine add to a cost already borne?

Robert Maxwell died in 1991, yet still shadows Goldman Sachs. One bad-reputation client can cost a bank many good ones. John Tamny argues the 'debanking' charges are mistaken. If a bad client costs so much, what does a $1.2B fine add?

Tariff threats dominate again, built on claims the world rips America off. John Tamny argues the premise is false: American brands, dollars, and English saturate every prosperous country. The world feverishly buys Americana, not walling it out.

What does LeBron James have to do with free trade? In this April 2015 Fox & Friends interview, John Tamny uses a hypothetical switch to football to explain specialization: do what you do best, then buy from others doing their best. What do you do best?

Dollars circulate in sizable and rising amounts where production is rising, and in small and declining amounts where it shrinks. If the Fed were printing, the dollar wouldn't circulate globally. Why do producers worldwide still take it?

Tariffs are being credited with moving auto production to America. John Tamny argues the win is illusory: foreign production never threatened American workers. Production anywhere enriches trading partners rather than hollowing them out.