Articles & Blog Posts by Jon N. Hall
- Citizenship and Intervening in Elections
- Duty and Democracy
- A song for patriots
- Inflation, Shutdowns, and Trending Authoritarianism -- Yes, They Are Connected
- Quagmires in the Fed’s War on Inflation
- Redefining ‘Recession’ for the Little People
- Will the Fed do the right thing on inflation?
- Cancel Culture for Serious People
- Inflation: Raise rates or sell assets
- Inflation: Negotiating with Reality
- Helping the Greenies Understand Fossil Fuels
- Supply chains and the energy that fuels them
- A chess champ opines on Putin
- The Power of One Man over a Slavish People
- What to do about what's really stoking inflation
- Children of the Corn and the Fraud of Renewable Energy
- Biden’s War with Prices
- Working Folks and the Poodle of Congress
- How Mike Pence Fell Short on January 6
- The 2022 Outlook for the U.S. Oil Industry
- The right price for a barrel of oil
- The Price of Recovery for U.S. Oil
- COVID-19 and the Profitability of U.S. Oil
- The Elusive Fairness of Taxes
- The Biden Regime Wants More Money
- Debt in the Time of Plague
- Capital Gains Tax Changes in the Reconciliation Bill
- Self-medicating for COVID with Cheap Drugs
- Lara Logan drops dynamite Fox News segment on Biden's sweeping vaccine mandates
- Afghanistan and the Managerial Elite
- Righting the Ship of State through Extraordinary Measures
- Inflation and the Reanimation of Dead Ideas
- The New Normal in the Permanent Emergency
- Be careful whom you celebrate
- The Epistemology of Election Audits
- Futurist limns out future of the Biden regime
- Bitcoin, Russian TV, and Devaluing the Dollar
- The Golden Age of Exquisite Interest Rates
- Liz Cheney's Big Lie
- The Federal Reserve Should Not Finance Insane New Spending
- The States Must Resist the Federal Takeover of Elections
- GameStop and the 'financialization' of the economy
- Tainted Electors in Post-Legal America
- The Institutionalization of Election Fraud
- Examining the Evidence for Democrats' 'No Evidence of Voter Fraud' Claim
- The Direction of America is in the Hands of State Legislators
- Election deadlines in post-constitutional America
- The Cure for Pennsylvania’s Mail-in Ballots
- How to Win Back the House in 2020
- Proving a Negative and Vetting Mail-in Ballots
- Making Mail-in Ballots ‘Secure’
- Salvaging the 2020 Election
- New York Had It Coming
- Missouri professor makes mask joke, gets canceled
- Democrats 'Go Postal' over Mail-in Ballots
- Is Kamala Harris black enough?
- Mail-in Voting and the Future of American Democracy
- Hakeem Jeffries Lies for a Living
- How to Spank the Establishment Media
- Violence to History the Mob Will Love
- Resisting the Mob and Restoring Order
- Bob Johnson’s dreadful $14.7T proposal
- Is Big Pharma Suppressing Hydroxychloroquine?
- OAN reporter lets Giuliani open up on Biden
- Was Trump right about disinfectants?
- MIT polymath criticizes Dr. Fauci and our approach to COVID
- Airlines and Disease in the New Normal
- We Can Work and Chew Gum at the Same Time
- Steve Hilton and the need to restart the economy
- The Price Mechanism in Attending College
- The Source of Bloomberg's Big Bucks
- Social Security Reforms Progressives Will Resist
- Steve Hilton and the NeverTrumps' big mistake
- Money and Debt without Limits
- Can America ‘Afford’ Another Recession?
- David Horowitz reminds us of our founding
- Correcting Voters' Mistakes
- Property, Obamacare, and Liz Warren's Wealth Tax
- When Does Serial Lying Become Disqualifying, Liz?
- Warren's Money Grab: A Tax on Net Worth
- The 'moderates' in the Democrat field
- Does Sovereign Debt Matter?
- Bailouts for Pensions -- ‘Through No Fault of Their Own’
- Trump’s ‘Accidental’ Win on the Citizenship Question
- A Most Singular Woman
- How to Twist Numbers to Make Obama Better on Economy than Trump
- Congress Is Dysfunctional, So Send in the Cavalry
- Roy Moore and What Political Parties Should Be
- Big Money for Big Government: the MMT Debate Continues
- Windmills versus nuclear energy
- Variations on a Speech for the Ages
- How Congress 'Extends the Life' of Social Security
- Would Stronger Parties Produce Better Candidates?
- Preparing for 2020 in Our So-called ‘Democracy’
- A Powerful Film Defies the History Books
- Transfer Payments and Touching the 'Third Rail'
- Truth or Lie: Social Security Doesn’t Add to the Debt
- The Hijacking of a Presidential Election
- After Lehman's Collapse: A Decade of Delay
- Democrats Now Share Responsibility for the 2019 Deficit
- Ambiguity and American Jurisprudence
- The Tyranny of the Judiciary and What to Do about It
- The Federal Deficit under 'Divided Government'
- Ambiguity, the Chevron Doctrine, Kavanaugh, and 'Birthright Citizenship'
- The 'Right' to Birthright Citizenship
- The 'Limitless' Capacity of Government to Create Money
- The Midterms after Kavanaugh
- The Fiscal Lunacy of Electing Democrats to Congress
- McCain, Bipartisanship, and the 'Congress Problem'
- Election Integrity in Kansas and Beyond
- The Election that Creates the Most Problems
- The West Since the Cold War
- On the Financial 'Wisdom' of Attending Today's Colleges
- The Cost of College: Beating the System
- A Pound of Flesh at the Speed of Justice
- ‘Private’ Projects with Taxpayer Bailouts
- A Really Bad Idea: Taxing Internet Commerce
- NeverTrumps and Fox News
- Delinquent Debt in America: To Forgive or Not to Forgive
- The Dollar: Lionel Shriver on Ruin
- How a Rich Nation Becomes a Poor Nation
- The Real Issue in Government Shutdowns
- How to Prevent a Roy Moore-Doug Jones SNAFU
- The Trump Tax Cuts and the Obamacare Mandate 'Repeal'
- Helping the New Tax Law to Pay Off
- Book to Film: Live by Night
- Tax Cuts: The Case for Gradualism
- Unless Changed, the Tax Bill Should Die
- Tax Reform: History Lessons for the Middle Class
- The Looming Debt Rollover Regime
- The Moore Affair Is in the Hands of Alabama
- Middle-Class Tax Cuts, Deficits, and the Business Cycle
- The Big Mistake in Obamacare Replacement Plans
- The Escalating Costs of Higher Edumacation
- Repairing the U.S. Senate
- The Purpose of Political Parties
- Graham-Cassidy would pass if we had a Republican Congress
- Melancholia: Rethinking a Movie
- What's Up for Obamacare This Fall?
- Fox News and the 'Both Sides' Issue
- Oliver Stone and Confederate Monuments
- Health Care: Is It Time to Replace the Majority Leader?
- Top GOP Strategist Wants to 'Tax the Rich'
- Medicaid: The Snag in Obamacare Repeal
- Paul Krugman Explains Obamacare
- Fixing Medicaid and the Obamacare Subsidy Program
- The Next Revolution: New Fox News series starts out with a bang
- Slouching Toward Health Care Reform
- Business Tax Reform First
- Pulling the Plug on Health Care Reform
- Universal Health Care with a Conservative Twist
- Just a Guy and His Chick Flicks
- The Democrats and Dystopian Debt
- The Alternative to ‘Alternative Taxes’
- ‘Net worth sweep’ and Obamacare’s endless bailouts
- The ‘Free Market’ and Universal Health Care
- No Exceptions: ‘Radical’ Tax Reform
- Obamacare: Snatching a ‘Win’ from Repeal Defeat
- Two Tweaks for ‘Ryancare’
- Obamacare in Limbo: Repeal or Let Die
- The Real Tax Unfairness
- Tax Cuts for Those Paying at 2.6%
- Obamacare: Disentangling the Private from the Public
- Obamacare Tax Woes for Non-taxpayers
- Cyber-Security: There’s No Disputin’ that Old Vlad Putin
- Making Good on the Promise to Repeal Obamacare
- Cutting the Spending, Goosing the Economy
- The never-ending story of election recounts
- Trump’s Reaganesque Approach to Business
- Divided or Undivided Government: That Is the Question
- You’re Never Gonna Get the Smell Out
- Immigration and ‘far-right’ rhetoric
- Hey, Millennials, Do Deficits Matter?
- Getting the Government We Deserve
- Millennials and the Obama Legacy
- Does America Have an ‘Official’ Morality?
- The Resurrection of Congress
- Voting Technology in 2016
- Did 'Private' Choices Give Us These Nominees?
- ‘Permission’ to Vote for Trump
- Members Only: the Right to ‘Private’ Associations
- America Needs ‘Open’ Conventions
- Are Political Parties ‘Private’?
- Delegates to Both Conventions Need to Start Over from Scratch
- GOP Delegates Are ‘Free’ to Choose Whomever
- The ‘Rigged System’ and the F.B.I. Primary
- What’s Wrong with Europe
- Time and the Pelosi-Reid-Obama Debt
- Redemption after the Apocalypse: A Deconstructive Exegesis of Mad Max: Fury Road
- Promethean Delegates Unbound: the ‘Nuclear Option’
- The Most Important Republicans in 2016
- Delegates to the Rescue in the Year of the Outsider
- Nullifying the Republican Primaries
- Inequality in the Personal Income Tax
- Hillary wants more of your money
- Lurching Towards a Contested Convention
- The ‘Unchecked Power’ to Tax
- The Ignored Campaign Issue: the Deficit
- The ‘Right Stuff’ for the Presidency
- Getting ‘Medieval’ on the Top 400 Taxpayers
- Dearth of 'systematic thinking' dooms debate
- Tax Advice for GOP Presidential Candidates
- The Nanny State and Adipose Rex
- Bailouts for Private Pension Funds
- Husband of Hillary Clinton receives curious award from curious source
- Europe's Loss
- Europe Cannot Begin Again
- Amending the Constitution to Defend Citizenship
- Is Ryan really right for the speakership?
- Are We Really Stuck with ObamaCare?
- Prices, Schizoid Americans, and the 'Knowledge Problem'
- The 'Growth Fairy' and the Federal Deficit
- 'Undocumented Americans' and the Nation's Data
- Anchor this!
- Taxes, Trump, and Shifting the Economy out of Neutral
- Not your father's 14th Amendment
- Christie Gets Grilled by Greta: Acquits Himself Well
- Why Is Health Insurance So Expensive?
- The President Invokes 'Logic' over the Iran Deal
- Selecting a Nominee: Why Not Laura?
- The Price of Health Insurance and the Tenth Amendment
- Incoherence, Thy Name Is ObamaCare
- What Exactly Is an 'Entitlement'?
- Subsidies and the Price of Health Insurance
- The Income Taxes of the Bottom Half
- Flat Tax Fantasies
- The Rubio Tax Plan Asks for Grief
- The 'Total Cost' to the Individual of ObamaCare
- Liars in High Places
- Accuracy in the Information Age
- Changing Your Vote on ObamaCare
- The Fate of ObamaCare: Let the People Decide It
- ObamaCare at the Crossroads
- Universal Healthcare: Who Really Pays?
- A 'Level Playing Field' for the Super Bowl
- The 'Obama Debt' in Context
- The Power of Hypotheticals
- H&R Block, Your Taxes, and ObamaCare
- A 'Perspicacious' Reading of ObamaCare
- ObamaCare: 'If the Wine Is Sour, Throw It Out'
- Too Late Smart
- ObamaCare and the Language of Law
- Will Ambiguity Save ObamaCare?
- Democrats and Inflation
- A Conversation with Cato the Eldest
- One Little Change for the Federal Reserve
- Cinema for Christians and Similar Souls
- Taxes and Property in the 'Real' America
- Complexity and Finding the Right Path
- Quicker Relief from Our Bad Choices
- Restoring Constitutional Government
- Taxes: There's Always Room at the Top
- The Road to Taxpayer Rights
- <em>Hobby Lobby</em> and the Fall Campaigns
- Navigating the Income Tax in the 'Offseason'
- How to Control the IRS
- Backwards Missouri Persecutes the Ailing
- Rules and Rule Makers
- Law, Logic, and the Tendency to Overcomplicate
- Putting Social Security on Solid Footing
- A Dog in the Manger on Football's Big Day
- Paul Krugman, Vanquished
- If You Like Your ObamaCare, You Can Keep Your ObamaCare
- The Trust Fund Mirage
- Manliness and the Knockout Game
- Targeting the Low-Information Voter
- Teacher tenure issue may aid Christie
- The Rhetoric of ObamaCare
- One Second After
- Banging the Drum for Default
- ObamaCare's Original Sin
- The Democrats vs. Electoral Reform
- Making America Exceptional Again
- Election Fraud: Detecting the Undetectable
- Complexity and Its Cult
- Presidential Lawlessness: It's So Cool
- Immigration Reform versus Unemployed America
- Norman Ornstein Fixes America's Broken Election System
- The End of the World and Other Entertainments
- The Law Means Nothing to These People
- Mark Steyn, Accommodation, and the Fall of Khartoum
- Election Integrity under the Arizona Ruling
- The Real Threat from Comprehensive Immigration Reform
- Internet Retailing Under the Marketplace Fairness Act
- Robert Reich's War on Global Capital
- Steve Rose on Obama's Arrogance
- The IRS Scandal and Tax Reform
- Krugman: Hardly 'Hard-line'
- 'Barack Hussein Nixon'
- The Future of Private Property
- Culture and the Barbarians at the Gate
- The Rising Price of Civilization
- ObamaCare: Welcome to the 19th Century
- Family Fortunes and the I.R.S.
- Refining Our 'Theory' of Taxation
- Will Obama Grab Your IRA?
- Obama's Obsession with the One Percent
- Will Obama Grab Your IRA?
- ObamaCare and the 'RobertsTax'
- Without Serious Spending Cuts, the Conservative Base Will Walk Away
- The Taxpayer's Share
- Loyalty in Football
- 'Put Not Your Trust in Aryans': A Movie Review
- A Currency as Good as Gold
- Fiscal Cliff: Negotiating with a Weak Hand?
- Krugman Sends 'Deficit Scolds' Straight to Hell
- Saved from Another Great Depression?
- The Twinkie Economist Looks at the 1950s
- Snookered on the Fiscal Cliff
- A Persistent ObamaCare Factoid
- Reeling from Fiscal Vertigo
- Claire McCaskill: 'Other People's Money' and Marijuana
- Todd Akin: It's the Majority, Stupid
- 'The Policies That Caused the Mess in the First Place'
- Recovery and the Fed's 'Exit Strategy'
- The Weight of the Fed in the Voters' Decision
- The Brokest Nation
- America's Road to Perdition
- Putting Sand in the Gears of the Price Mechanism
- Inequality: The Cudgel of Progressives
- 'Fun Facts' from Barbara Shelly on Wacky, Ignorant Missouri
- Howard Dean: A Piece of Work
- If All Else Fails: What to do if Akin doesn't step aside
- The Impact of ObamaCare on the Economy
- ObamaCare: The Most Recent in a Parade of Horribles
- Did the 'Individual Mandate' Survive?
- The Tax You Need Not Pay
- Taxes: 'Heresies of the Obvious'
- Long-Term Budgeting by a Short-Term Congress
- What 'Every Economist' Says
- The Aesthetics of ObamaCare
- A Raging Prairie Fire of Lies
- Election Fraud: A new special report from Fox News
- 'Marriage Equality' and the Public Interest
- Obama's Blank Check
- ObamaCare and Freedom
- ObamaCare and Freedom
- Taxing Thoughts from Justice Sotomayor
- ObamaCare's Real Price Tag
- Paul Krugman's History Problem
- 'Let Voters Decide': Tax Reform in Missouri
- Mandatory Spending by a Broke Nation
- Sandra Fluke and the Nature of Insurance
- 'Nobody Considers That a Tax'
- Elections in America: 'Inaccurate, Costly, and Inefficient'
- ObamaCare's Moral Conscience Accommodation
- America's One True Religion
- Krugman's Premature Victory Lap
- The Company Men
- Non-citizen Voting in Connecticut
- A Diseased Economy Awaits the Correct Diagnosis
- Voter Fraud for the Complete Idiot
- Your 'Fair Share' in the New Tax Rate Regime
- The Missouri GOP Wakes Up
- Tax Rates for Limiting the Leviathan
- Who's the Real Tea Party Candidate?
- Joe Stiglitz Wants Your Money
- The Left's Big Obsession
- Inequality: It's a Good Thing
- Creative Destruction in Kansas City?
- Tea Parties are like the confederates or something
- Stop Coddling Warren Buffett
- Tax Reform for a Broke Nation
- What took the S&P downgrade so long?
- A Ridley Scott Movie for Conservatives
- Debt Ceiling: Anything But Spending Cuts
- Debt Ceiling: The Long Run Is Here
- Bill O'Reilly Addresses the Tea Party
- Can Increased Demand Save the Economy?
- Debt Ceiling: Groping for Clarity
- ObamaCare and the King's Royal Deer
- Debt Ceiling: The Trap of Budget Cuts in the 'Out Years'
- Presidential Elections: An End Run Around the Constitution?
- The 'Real' Tax Rates on Top Earners
- The Debt Ceiling Showdown in an Uncertain Recovery
- Bobby Fischer Against the World
- Paul Krugman: The Lesser of Two Evils?
- The Ever-Shifting Price of ObamaCare
- Hit and Run Journalism in Kansas City
- The Debt Ceiling: Who's Holding Whom Hostage?
- Removing the Payroll Tax Cap
- Social Security 'Whoppers' and the Compliant Media
- NY Times columnist wrong: Congress Can End Social Security Whenever They Choose
- The Price of Government Employees
- Robert Reich: Who You Calling a Liar?
- Paul Krugman: Another Day Older and Deeper in Debt
- Kansas City Star whitewashes Senator McCaskill's offenses
- 'Waiving' goodbye to the Constitution
- The Unbearable Lightness of the Social Security "Trust Fund"
- Who's afraid of a little election fraud?
- The Limits of Federal Power: ObamaCare on Trial
- Obama Chooses Badly: Recovery Thwarted
- Shrink the Fed Before It Shrinks the Dollar
- Money Is Still Money, Isn't It?
- Shared Sacrifice in Obamaland
- Obama and the Age of Reaganomics
- The Reindustrialization of America
- Federal Revenue and the Economy
- Trillion-Dollar Deficits and the Press
- The Dollar's Demise is not Inevitable
- Engineering the New Electorate
- Roosevelt Redux?
- A Tax Holiday for Corporations?
- Federal Overreach and the New States' Rights Movement
- Money: Debauched, Debased, and Destroyed
- Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Federal Trust Funds
- To Hell with the Constitution?
- The Price of the Public Option
- Rightwing Fascists and Other Fables
- Obama's Deficit: The Devil Made Me Do It
- Two Tweaks to the Constitution
- Health Insurance and the Lure of Someone Else
- The Fair Price of Civilization?
- Where's the 'Do Nothing Congress' When You Need Them?
- Federal Finance: having it both ways
