The Panama Canal was opened in 1914. It was an enormous undertaking. The canal took ten years to complete (from the time Teddy Roosevelt got our country’s work on the canal started), and $400 million…
Category:
Economy
-
-
David Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature has been called “one of the keystone books of western philosophy,” “the founding document of cognitive science,” and perhaps the “most important philosophical work” in the English language.…
-
For decades, America’s manufacturing sector has seemingly eroded, with jobs and production shifting overseas in search of lower costs and fewer regulatory constraints. While many companies have relocated abroad, the reality is more nuanced than…
-
President Trump is bringing federal agencies to heel. Is the Federal Reserve next? Our nation’s central bank jealously guards its independence from politics. Given its inflation-fighting and financial stability-preserving mandates, that might seem like a…
-
Writing eight years ago in USA Today, I cheered: “President Trump’s proposed budget takes a big step towards draining the swamp in Washington. This is the first time since the Reagan era that a president…
-
The rapid global expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices is transforming industries and creating an immense demand for data storage and processing power. What is IoT in a data center? The Internet of Things…
-
Writing eight years ago in USA Today, I cheered: “President Trump’s proposed budget takes a big step towards draining the swamp in Washington. This is the first time since the Reagan era that a president…
-
President Trump is bringing federal agencies to heel. Is the Federal Reserve next? Our nation’s central bank jealously guards its independence from politics. Given its inflation-fighting and financial stability-preserving mandates, that might seem like a…
-
At its core, economics is about making choices. We face trade-offs. If you want more of this, you must give up some of that. Non-economists often ignore the trade-offs. For example, protectionists argue tariffs will…
-
At its core, economics is about making choices. We face trade-offs. If you want more of this, you must give up some of that. Non-economists often ignore the trade-offs. For example, protectionists argue tariffs will…