Is Consumer-Regulated Electricity Going Worldwide?
Electricity demand from data centers is exploding. This surge has spurred an intense buildout of new generation capacity, as businesses...
Is Kansas City a Public Safety Charity Case?
In a recent column for The Kansas City Star, I detailed international media stories about crime here in the City...
On Short-Term Rentals
I recently attended a meeting of the Transportation and Commerce Committee of the Saint Louis City Board of Aldermen held...
Remembering Pearl Harbor
As first appearing in the Kansas City Star and the American Spectator: A surprised and outraged Franklin D. Roosevelt called...
Let Market Guide Us To Prosperity In ’14
As first appearing in the January 7, 2014, Columbia Daily Tribune: Here are five market-oriented resolutions for a more prosperous...
The Boston Tea Party and . . . Targeted Tax Credits?
I don’t think any American schoolchild escaped this lesson from civics class: On the night of December 16, 1773, in...
The Effects of Municipal Taxation: Roman Empire Edition
Right now, I’m reading The Rule of Empires by Washington University history professor Timothy Parsons (who was my history advisor...
Maybe When Service Drops to One Day a Week, We Can Eliminate Its Monopoly Protection?
The U.S. Postal Service doesn’t want to deliver mail on Saturday anymore. Facing a large budget gap, the USPS is...
St. Ann Could Become a “Pool” Sales Tax City
Not just anyone can come up with attention-grabbing headlines like that. You are either born with the talent or not....
Environmental Benefits of High-Speed Rail Overstated
Eric Morris recently wrote a post for Freakonomics that attempts to evaluate some of the proposed benefits of a high-speed...
Stuck Inside of Retail With the Tax Holiday Blues Again
Before I depart for a semester in London, I plan on replacing a portion of my seasoned wardrobe. I’ll be...
Creve Coeur Votes Down Tax Increase
If you blinked you could have missed yesterday’s elections in St. Louis County. Countywide, there were three elections, two of...
Great Moments in Film-Related Think Tank History, Part 1 (Probably of 1)
So, my wife and I are watching the all-time classic Say Anything this weekend when I heard something I never...
