by Gary Alexander April 16, 2024 Last week, I wrote about why tax increases don’t usually raise tax receipts. This week, I’ll show how tax rate cuts always raise tax receipts, especially from the rich. This is based on the work of Art Laffer, whom I first met when I...
by Ivan Martchev April 16, 2024 Nobody can predict if the cycle of acrimonious recriminations between Israel and Iran will stop this week – after the Iranian retaliation for the destroyed Damascus consulate – or whether it keeps spiraling out of control, which could...
by Jason Bodner April 16, 2024 Last week, I tackled the global flood that set Noah and his animals adrift, but it turns out that 70 other cultures chronicled the same story, so maybe the myth is really just a fuzzy memory. This week, I offer the Peri Reis Map,...
by Jason Bodner April 2, 2024 It’s the stuff of Indiana Jones…The Lost Ark of the Covenant. The large, gold-covered wooden chest supposedly holding Moses’ Ten Commandments resided at the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem for centuries. It disappeared after Jerusalem was...