Discredited Economic Theories—Scapegoats Born of Populist Superstition

Wealth is not deducted from some fixed sum that belongs to everyone. It’s created and the creation involves many people and many factors. 

Bill Gates: US Pandemic Response is ‘Shocking’

Bill Gates has some bad news for President Trump, who has suggested that a coronavirus vaccine could be available by Election Day

Bill Gates Worried About ‘Once-in-a-Century Pandemic’

There are lots of liberals out there who hate Bill Gates for one reason: he’s wealthy, something that is anathema to many hard lefties. 

Running Out the Clock

I can’t deny the morbid fascination of watching the Trumpocalypse with open mouthed horror day after day, but more than half that horror stems from the totally oblivious nature of the American public, or at least that 30 – 40% who seem to see a different Trump than the one sleeping alone in his tower in the Palm Beach Kremlin.

10 Things Happening In Our World Today, May 18, 2013

The jackpot for the 43-state Powerball lottery climbed to $600 million on Friday, its highest total ever. If nobody wins after the drawing on Saturday night, it could eclipse the $656 million Mega Millions jackpot from March 2012. [Los Angeles Times]

Barack Obama time travels to Mars and other weird stuff

In August of 2011, a man named Andrew Basiago made the following claim: he had time traveled to Mars with now President Barack Obama in 1980.

Buffett’s buffet? Billionaires giving back

What do dozens of American billionaires talk about when they get together? Their topic this week was of course money; not how to make it, but how to give it away.