Richard Morrison
@RichardMorrison
Senior Fellow at @ceidotorg. Finance, freedom, and pandas. Promoting a new abundance agenda. Host of the @freethe_economy podcast.
I had a great time interviewing former Anheuser-Busch executive and author Anson Frericks about his new book "Last Call for Bud Light: The Fall and Future of America's Favorite Beer." Thanks to the producers at @cspan for giving me the interviewer's seat! youtube.com/watch?v=P1GfS4…
So America will get this great supply of critical minerals...at a 20% markup, paid to the US Treasury. Baffling.
In the two trade agreements confirmed today, the President has negotiated it so companies based in Indonesia and the Philippines pay nothing to import American goods (great for Indonesian and Filipino consumers!) and US companies pay a 19% tax to import their goods.
Europeans whenever air conditioning is mentioned
americans are conditioned to only ever think of consumption, not production. the AC is a magic make cold box, it definitely doesn't require gas and coal to be burned elsewhere to run it
The overwhelming majority of San Francisco’s celebrated Victorian homes were built with facade elements that were mass produced with power tools in off-site factories and ordered from catalogs. Basically none of them were “hand carved.”
San Francisco is well known for its beautifully constructed homes. But to hear some people tell it, it might sound as though The City’s architectural heyday has long since passed. sfexaminer.com/news/housing/s…
Total Chad move.
Folks, I did it. I finally made it to Springfield, IL and visited Chadito's, a local joint I've followed for years ever since it popped up in a Google search as being owned by one Chad Reese.
I will donate $4.20 to Ben's GiveSendGo fundraiser when he's sent to the Marriott Bonvoy gulag by the Ambassador Elite Militia for trespassing in the preferred member check-in line.
I have found another situation like this: those bifurcated lines at hotels where the common trash have to be in a long line but then there is an empty “platinum member” line. Just walk through it. What are they going to do? Arrest you?
Glad to see big YouTube econ accounts like Money & Macro (593K subscribers) using charts from rising star @JosephPolitano: youtube.com/watch?v=nBXwqN…
Any of us could become disabled or care for a loved one with a disability. Life after disability can be incredibly challenging—homes aren’t accessible, wheelchairs cost thousands, and healthcare adds up. Some call this the disability tax. Despite the high costs, life remains…
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Don't mess with Costco, libs. I am serious.
Would Americans be better off without Costco? Zephyr Teachout says yes. I say no. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
Was great to coauthor this piece with Harrison Cerone, research associate at @ceidotorg
America’s community banks, vital to local lending, have nearly halved since Dodd-Frank in 2010 due to heavy regulations. Fed’s Michelle Bowman urges tailored rules to revive and support these banks. @jberlau @rc_markets cei.org/opeds_articles…
The plan was always that wind and solar would be free to compete on their own merits once they became cost-competitive. Unending subsidies for wind and solar are fundamentally at odds with innovation, and they hurt our long-term climate policy goals.
I demand a workplace sitcom set in the country's last operating penny factory.
Scoop: A House Republican push to kill the penny is facing internal divisions this week. Rep. John Rose (R-Tenn.) is pushing for changes to the Common Cents Act. Tennessee is home to the only penny factory in the U.S., and Rose is running for governor. Markup expected tomorrow.
Whoopee! I get to talk to Tyler about how the US recovered from the Great Depression, and how the New Deal influenced that recovery. Come and listen! cato.org/events/false-d…
It didn't get the fanfare of being called "Capital Formation Week," but the House passed a number of bills yesterday related to capital formation issues, including one that would expand accredited investor status to any investor who passes an exam. crowdfundinsider.com/2025/07/246372…
Instead of creating socialist grocery stores, maybe the NYC Housing Authority could let developers build directly on their properties? "NYCHA has actually barred commercial businesses from its properties for the last 80 years." aei.org/op-eds/nix-soc…
Lots of really bad economics in today’s NYT op-ed on grocery store competition. Take this passage for example:
I'm looking forward to our September 18 roundtable on the trade-through rule: SEC.gov | SEC Announces Roundtable on Trade-Through Prohibitions
You: It's not possible to re-build American society around a single photo from the 1989 Ralph Lauren home collection Me:
"Degrowth economics" is a house built on foundations of sand.
🧵Now available! My paper with Ashruta Acharya and Alek Psrurek on the most generous engagement with the most influential "model" of degrowth. TLDR: It doesnt hold empirically. It predicts the opposite.
Me to local politicians: Please stop everything-bageling us into material poverty.
you wonder why there’s a housing shortage and then you see elected officials like this who see every new proposed housing unit as an opportunity to fund a dozen other social goals