A
AbeBooks, 18
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 117
Achatz, Grant, 165–67, 174, 181
Adrià, Ferran, 166
Advanced Research Projects Agency, 18
Affordable Care Act, 89, 236. See also Obamacare
After America (Steyn), 29
Age of Turbulence, The (Greenspan), 193–94
Albuquerque, NM, 84
Allen, Paul, 84
Allies, the, xv
Allison, John, 103–4, 115, 132, 160, 211, 243
Amazon.com, 9, 18, 38, 83–84, 122–23, 127
AMC, 119
American Airlines, 83, 111, 122
American Enterprise Institute, the, 104, 160
American Pie, 6
America Online (AOL), 122–23, 125
Ames, Elizabeth, 91
Anheuser-Busch, 118
Aniston, Jennifer, 153
Annapolis Lighting, 87
Antitrust (Armentano), 117
antitrust regulation, 119, 122, 124–26
Appalachian State, 101–2, 107, 131
Apple, Inc., 10, 19–21, 24–25, 28, 38, 57–58, 81–82, 86, 122, 124–25, 127, 141, 147, 151–52, 161, 177–78, 182, 190–91, 196, 219, 238. See also Apple Computer
Apple App Store, 82
Apple Computer, 9–10. See also Apple, Inc.
Applied Finance Group, 189, 244
Arena Football League, 130
Arizona Daily Star, 123
Armentano, Dominick, 117
Armstrong, Lance, 34
Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers, 12
AT&T Stadium, 34
Auburn University, 65
Auletta, Ken, 140
Austin, TX, 35, 81, 83, 129–30
Austrian School of economics, 16, 202
AZT, 110
B
Back to the Land (Maloney), 21
bailouts, xii, 16, 62, 80–81, 115, 127, 220–24, 228
Bain Capital, 62
Bakken Shale, 15
Bancroft, Anne, 17
Bangladesh, 86
bankruptcy, xvi, 16, 62, 70–72, 81, 109, 120, 124, 219, 222
Barnes & Noble, 123
Bart, Peter, 118
bartering, xii
Bartley, Robert, 23–25, 33, 106, 135, 142, 159, 244, 246
Bastiat, Frédéric, 14–15, 165, 244
Bay, Michael, 218
Baylor, Elgin, 143
BB&T Bank, 103, 114–15, 132, 243
Bear Stearns, xvi, 212, 219, 221, 228
Beaverton, OR, 150
Beckham, David, 150
Bellissimo, Teressa, 173
Bermuda, 161
Bernanke, Ben, xii, 103, 192–95, 221, 224–26, 235, 237–38
Betamax, 189
Bezos, Jeff, 9, 18, 20, 38, 114, 123
“Big Oil,” 15
“Big Pharma,” 113
Big Short, The (Lewis), 107, 227
Bikini Beach (Bocca), 135
Biography of the Dollar (Karmin), 181
Birmingham Barons, 145–46
BlackBerry, 19
Blackledge, Todd, 119
Blockbuster Video, 59, 120–23, 167, 219
Bloomberg, 210
Bloomberg LP, 56
Bloomfield, Nigel, 137
Bluhdorn, Charles, 118
Blumenthal, Michael, 202
BMW 535i, 197
Bocca, Geoffrey, 135–36
Boehner, John, 15
Boeing, 84
Boise State, 102
Bonderman, David, 63
Borman, Frank, 110–11
Bosh, Chris, 64
Boudreaux, Donald J., 149
Brando, Marlon, 118
Breaking Bad, 119
Bright, H. R. “Bum,” 34
Brillstein, Bernie, 56
Brin, Sergey, 114
Britain, xv, 37–38, 155, 158, 185, 213
Brookes, Warren, xix, 52, 113–14, 244, 246
Brooks, John, 201
Buffalo, NY, 173–74
Buffalo Bills, 71
Buffett, Warren, 23, 50–51, 63
Bundesbank, 200
Bush, George W., 209–10, 214–15, 221, 223, 226, 228–29, 234–37, 239
and the dollar, 209–10, 214–15, 229, 237
Bush tax cuts, 236
Business Insider, 123
C
California, 7, 10, 15, 66, 121, 131, 147, 149, 163, 166
films made in, 7
Campbell, Earl, 70
capital, xiii–xv, 6, 8–9, 12–13, 15–16, 20–24, 26–27, 30–32, 35–41, 46, 51, 58, 61–63, 69, 73, 75–77, 80–83, 89, 91–93, 96, 104, 106, 112–14, 120, 124, 128, 152–53, 160, 182, 188, 192, 201, 203, 207, 211, 219–20, 224–25, 227, 229–30, 232–34, 237, 245
capital gains taxes, 33–41, 91, 95, 203, 206
capitalism, 8–9, 13, 19, 22, 54, 59, 64, 66–67, 91, 137, 150, 164, 176, 189, 192–93, 219, 222–23, 228–30, 232, 234
as a two-way street, 9
Carlyle Group, 119
Carmazzi, Giovanni, 119
Carter, Cris, 86
Carter, Jimmy, 202–3, 205–6, 209, 214, 226, 239
Castro, Fidel, 155–56
Cato Institute, 64, 159–60, 241, 243, 247–48
Central American Free Trade agreement, 138
central planning, 223
Central Powers, the, 158
Chase, David, 119
Chicago, IL, 83, 145, 165, 167
Chicago Bulls, 145
Chicago Mercantile Exchange, 183–84
child labor, 85
China, Chinese, xiii–xiv, 27, 132, 151, 162–64, 167, 176, 192–93, 197, 209, 237
China National Petroleum Corporation, 162
Churchill, Winston, 135
Citigroup, 127
Clark County, NV, 79
Coliseum (LA), 4
Comcast, 123–24
commodities, 57, 159, 178, 183–84, 197, 200–1, 210
Communist Manifesto (Marx), xi
comparative advantage, 143–48, 150–51, 157, 159–60, 162, 168, 184, 234
Competitive Enterprise Institute, the, 114
Congressional Budget Office (CBO), 29
Constitution, the, 93–94
Consumer Price Index (CPI), xv, 196–97, 200
consumption, 38, 41, 45, 51, 61, 72–77, 95–96, 140, 147, 160, 162, 177, 190, 192–93, 202, 204 211, 213, 218–20, 223–24, 227, 235, 238
consumption tax, 95–96
Continental Airlines, 63
Cooley, Chris, 87
Coolidge, Calvin, 231
Coppola, Francis Ford, 69
Costner, Kevin, 108
Coulter, Jim, 63
Crawley family (Downton Abbey characters), 48–49
“creative destruction,” xiv
credit default swaps (CDSs), 106–7
Crews, Wayne, 114
Crovitz, L. Gordon, 131
Crude World (Maass), 162
Cuaron, Alfonso, 167
Cuba, 155–57
Culinary Institute of America, 166
Cupertino, CA, 10, 82, 147, 152
Cyprus Air, 87
D
Daily Telegraph, 55
Daisy Miller, 69
Dallas Buyers Club, 110
Dallas Cowboys, xvii, 31, 33–40
Dances With Wolves, 108
D’Antoni, Phil, 13–14
Dao of Capital, The (Spitznagel), 11–12
Dartmouth College, 184
Davis, Fred, 87
de Blasio, Bill, 237
debt, 25–30, 39–40, 55, 72, 74–75, 95, 106–7, 242, 244
deficits
budget deficits, xiii, 25–32, 233
de Laurentiis, Dino, 118
Dell computers, 124–25, 177–78, 182, 189, 197, 219
Democratic Party, the, 24
Dench, Judi, 17
Dent, Jim, 36
Denver Broncos, 64
deregulation, 111, 205, 211–12
Desert Inn, 80–81
Detroit, MI, 80–81, 84–85, 142, 144, 154
Detroit Lions, 144
Dividing the Wealth (Kershner), 51, 77
Dobbs, Lou, 195
Doerr, John, 82
dollar, the, xv, xxiii, 24, 30, 37, 157–61, 176–86, 197–210, 214–15, 218, 226, 229, 232, 237
Dow Jones Industrial Average, 62
Drake Hotel, 83
Dunne, Dominick, 55–56
Duryea, Charles, 11
Duryea, Frank, 11
E
Eason, Tony, 119
Eastern Airlines, 110
East Germany, 225
Econoclasts (Domitrovic), 199
economics, 9, 113, 140, 157–59, 162, 220, 232, 240
as a profession, xxi–xxiii, 186, 192–94
as a science, xii, xvii–xviii, xxi–xxiii, 220, 227, 240
Economics (Samuelson), xvii
Economics and the Public Welfare (Anderson), 88, 232
Economics in One Lesson (Hazlitt), 79, 85
Economist, The, 84
Economy in Mind, The (Brookes), xix, 52
Edsel, 108
84 Charing Cross Road, 17–18, 59
Elephant and the Dragon, The (Meredith), 151
Eli Lilly, 109
Ellison, Larry, 44
Emminger, Otmar, 200
Encore, the, 80
End Is Near and It’s Going to Be Awesome, The (Williamson), 29
energy independence, xv, 155–64
entrepreneurs, entrepreneurship, xv, xvii, xxii, 11, 14, 16, 19–20, 27–28, 30, 33, 35–38, 40–41, 45–47, 51–52, 54, 57–60, 72–76, 81, 89, 91, 95–96, 114, 121, 128, 137, 169, 187–92, 202–3, 214, 220, 227, 232, 238, 243
entropy, 187
high entropy, 176, 187–88, 208
low entropy, 176, 180, 188–89, 208
Entropy Economics, 187
ESPN (Freeman), 47
ESPN-TV. See ESPN
Evans, Robert, 118
Exile on Main St. (Rolling Stones), 4, 6
F
Facebook, 20, 24, 66, 91–92, 114, 119, 131, 239
failure, xvii, 23, 35, 40, 56, 80, 86–87, 105, 109, 113, 191, 218–24, 228, 230, 235, 239, 242
lessons learned from, xvii, 40, 80, 86, 113, 218, 221, 224
Fair Labor Standards Act, 233
Fair Tax, the, 95
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), 111
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), 103
Federal Drug Administration (FDA), 109–10, 113
Federal Homestead Act, 21
Federal Open Market Committee, 195
Federal Reserve, the, xii, xv, 71, 103–4, 190, 192, 209, 214
Ferguson, Niall, 29–30
Financial Crisis and the Free Market Cure, The (Allison), 103, 243
financial crisis of 2008–2009, xv, 107, 208, 215, 217–30, 236
flat tax, the, 95
Flint, MI, 154
Flynn, Matt, 65
Fools Rush In (Munk), 123
Foote, Shelby, 217
Forbes, 140, 177–78, 183, 203, 245–46
Forbes, Steve, 91, 95, 183, 197, 249
Forbes 400, the, 23, 60–61, 66
Ford. See Ford Motor Company
Ford, Henry, 11–13, 19, 60, 74–76, 85, 166, 233
Forde, Pat, 101
Ford Motor Company, 4, 11–13, 19, 74–76, 80, 108, 184, 196, 219, 233
foreign investment, 141
Fox Business News, 195
Franklin, Benjamin,
Freeman, Michael, 47
free markets, free-market capitalism, xi, 64, 89, 113, 139, 147, 207, 223, 237
French Connection, The, 13–14, 32
French Laundry, 166–67
Friedkin Connection, The (Friedkin), 13
Friedman, Milton, xiii
Friedman, Thomas, 169
Friendster, 113
Frum, David, 203
G
Galbraith, John Kenneth, 126
Gates, Bill, 20, 50–52, 84, 112, 122, 129
Gazprom, 162
General Motors, 4, 80–81, 126–27, 234
General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (Keynes), xi
Georgia, 6
Ghostbusters, 56
Gilder, George, xviii, 14, 176, 187–88, 203, 204, 213, 242–43
Giving Pledge, the, 50
Glass-Steagall, 211–12
globalization, 149–50, 192, 198
Globalization (Boudreaux), 149
Godfather, The, 118
Goizueta, Roberto, 108
Gold (Lewis), 179
Goldman Sachs, 92, 102, 105, 132, 182
gold standard, the, x, 178–83, 232
Gonzalez, Tony, 144–45
Google, 15–20, 24–25, 28, 76, 124–25, 129, 161, 210, 223, 238
Google Chrome, 125
GooglePlex, the, 161
Gorman, James, 217
Gourmet, 165
government
as obstacle to growth, xviii, 127
role in 2008 crisis, xv, 101–15, 217–30, 235, 236
wealth and, 18–19, 28, 40, 44–45
government spending, xii–xiii, xxi, 17–24, 30–32, 188, 208, 233, 237, 247
Gravity, 167
Great Chicken Wing Hunt, The, 174
Great Depression, the, xi, 21, 232, 238
Greenspan, Alan, 103, 193–94, 211
Greider, William, 214
Guest, Christopher, 31
Gulf & Western, 118
H
Hackman, Gene, 13
Haiti, 86
Harry Potter series, 55
Harvard University, 210
Hazlitt, Henry, 79, 82, 85, 125
hedge funds, 61, 105, 183–84, 224, 227
Help, The (Stockett), 130
Heppenheimer, T. A., 111
Hollywood Palladium, 3
Hollywood Video, 120–22
Honda, 81
Honduras, 28
Hong Kong, 139, 141–42, 153, 169, 242
Hoover, Herbert, 232–34
Hopkins, Anthony, 17
House of God, 231
housing, xiv, 61–62, 75–76, 79, 103, 105–6, 140, 146, 201–2, 204–5, 211–15, 218–20, 223–24, 226–27, 229, 235, 238, 247, 249
Howard, Graeme, 234
How Capitalism Will Save Us (Forbes and Ames), 91
I
I, Pencil, 149
IBM System/360, 57
Indianapolis, IN, 187
inflation, xv, 185, 187–98, 199–215, 226, 243
initial public offerings (IPOs), 37–38, 76, 91–92, 203, 206, 210
Inland Revenue Service, 5
In Search of Excellence (Peters), 127
interest rates, xii, 71, 76, 212–14, 237
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 48, 50, 94–95
International Monetary Fund (IMF), xviii
internet, the, xv, 17–19, 23, 57–58, 60, 83, 85, 122–25, 161, 208, 243
government’s role in founding of, 18–19
job growth caused by, xiv, 19, 83, 85
jobs killed by, xiv, 19, 83, 85
Internet Explorer, 125
investing, investment, investors, xiii, xvi–xvii, 4, 9–13, 19–28, 30–31, 34–41, 45, 47–48, 56, 61–63, 73–76, 80–83, 85, 91–93, 96, 103, 105–6, 119, 121, 128, 141, 151–53, 156, 160–61, 164–65, 169, 179–83, 185, 188, 199, 201–12, 214–15, 218, 222–23, 226–28, 230, 232–37
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, 117
Irwin, Douglas, 184
Isaacson, Walter, 146
Israel, 157–61
J
Jackson, Bo, 145
James, LeBron, 64, 143–45, 147–48, 160–61, 168, 204
Japan, xviii, 27, 141, 158, 164, 182, 185, 202–3, 209, 225
Jobs, Steve, xiv, 9–10, 20, 23–24, 38, 41, 59, 75, 81–82, 85–86, 96, 114, 146–47
“Joe the Plumber,” 44
Johnson, Jimmy, 33
Johnson, Lyndon B., 179
Johnson, Samuel, 105
Jordan, Michael, 143, 145–46, 168, 204–5, 210
K
Kaepernick, Colin, 175
Kaiser, George, 24
Kansas City Royals, 145
Karmin, Craig, 181
Kealoha, Ric, 174
Keller, Thomas, 166
Kennedy, Edward M. “Ted,” 110–12
Keough, Donald, 108
Kershner, Howard E., 51, 77, 225
Keynes, John Maynard, xi
Keynesianism, Keynesians, xiv, xvi
Kim Jong-Un, 176
Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, 82
Knight, Phil, 151
Knowledge and Power (Gilder), xix
Kohn, Donald, 193–94
Koum, Jan, 131
Kraft, Myra, 40
Kraft, Robert, 39–40
L
Labyrinths of Prosperity (Brenner), xix
LaGuardia Airport, 122
Lamont, Thomas W., 234
Larry King Live, 54
Last Picture Show, The, 69, 184
Layne, Bobby, 70
Leaf, Ryan, 175
Lear, Norman, 31
Lehman Brothers, xvi, 219–22, 228
Leviathan, 24, 44. See also government
Life (Richards), 4
lifestyle inequality, 59–60
Live by Night, 6
Long, Jake, 102
Los Angeles, CA, 3, 6–7, 59, 163, 168
Los Angeles Times, 6–7
Los Gatos, CA, 121
Lott, Trent, 93
Louisiana State University, 65
Lowe, Rob, 7
Lucas, George, 69
M
Maass, Peter, 162
Mad Men, 119
Madoff Securities, 109
Maher, Bill, 155
Maloney, C. J., 21
Manhattan Island, 142
Manning, Peyton, 175
Marino, Dan, 119
Marx, Karl, xi
Maryland, Russell, 31–32
Maugham, Somerset, 167
Mayer, Louis B., 117
Mayo Clinic, the, 168
McConnell, Mitch, 15
McDonald’s, xxiii, 144, 169, 177
McGwire, Mark, 34
McKenna, Regis, 146
McKinnon, Ronald I., 207
McMillan, Chris, 154
Melamed, Leo, 183
Merrill Lynch, 212
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 117–18
Miami Heat, 64
Microsoft, 21, 45, 51, 76, 82, 84, 124–27, 161, 168, 182, 206
Midland, TX, 204
Mill, John Stuart, 43, 74, 76, 178, 187, 229, 244
Miller Brewing, 118
Mitchell, Margaret, 118
Monday Night Football (MNF), 118–20
money, xii, xiii, xxiii, 5, 9–10, 20–22, 24, 26, 28, 30–31, 34–35, 37–39, 41, 44–45, 48–49, 51–52, 56, 60–63, 65, 70, 72–73, 76, 81, 92–95, 104, 107, 109, 113–15, 137, 140, 164, 171, 176–85, 187–88, 190–91, 196, 198–200, 203–5, 207–12, 214–15, 232, 239, 243, 245
monopolies, monopoly profits, 123–28
Moore, Chris, 6
Moretti, Enrico, 10, 82–83, 151–53
Morgan, J. P., 92, 102, 212, 221, 234
Moscow on the Hudson, 138
Moscow Scene, The (Bocca), 135–36
Movie Gallery, 120
Mozilla Firefox, 125
municipal bonds (“munis”), 38, 40
Muppet Show, The, 56
N
Napster, 147
NASDAQ, 160
Nashville, TN, 142
National Buffalo Wing Festival, 174
National Football League (NFL), the, 31, 33–35, 39–40, 65, 71, 86–87, 101–2, 119, 130, 143–45, 147, 160, 173, 175, 199
National Iranian Oil Company, 162
New Coke, 108
New England Patriots, 39–40, 66, 91, 102, 144, 221–22
New Geography of Jobs, The (Moretti), 10
Newton, Isaac, 52
New York, NY, 17, 59, 122, 130, 140–42, 150, 153, 163, 168, 173–74, 224, 245
New York Times, 47, 53, 56, 169, 201
New York Yankees, 49
NFL Europe, 130
NFL Today, 145
Nicaragua, 28
Nike, 144, 150–52, 156, 161, 196, 246
99 percent, the, 64
Nixon, Richard, 176, 179, 181, 201–2, 205–6, 239
North Dakota, 15, 162, 195, 210
O
Oakland Raiders, 145
Obama, Barack, 24, 44, 89, 229, 234, 236–37, 239
O’Brien, Ken, 119
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, 103
O’Grady, Mary Anastasia, 138
Ohno, Kenichi, 207
oil, 14–15, 23, 47, 49, 60, 84, 120, 126, 137, 139, 157–62, 167, 174, 183–84, 195, 201, 203–5, 209–10, 214
O’Neill, Paul, 209
O’Rourke, P. J., 137
outsourcing, xv, 141, 146, 149–54, 195
P
Palazzo, the, 80
Paley, William S., 118
Paper Moon, 69
Paramount, 118
Park Avenue, 142
Parkinson, C. Northcote, 17
Parkinson’s Law (Parkinson), 17
Patriot Act, 211
Paulson, John, 61–63, 105–6, 212, 226–27, 235
Pellegrini, Paolo, 212
Pelosi, Nancy, 15
Pennington, Bill, 46
Percy, Walker, 217
Permian Basin, the, 162
Perry, Mark, 160
Petroleos de Venezuela, 162
Pettigrew, Brandon, 144
Pitt, Brad, 7
Plainville, CT, 46
Portland, OR, 151
Portland State, 64
Postman, The, 108
Principles of Political Economy (Mill), 43, 178, 187
private equity, 62–63
private sector, the, 19, 21, 23, 28, 30, 40–41, 92–93, 102, 106, 120, 132, 188, 232–34
progressive taxation, 5
Puzo, Mario, 118
Q
R
Rasmussen, Scott, 47
Read, Leonard, 149
Reagan, Ronald, 204–6, 208–9, 223, 239, 242, 244
Reagan National Airport, 122
RealClearMarkets, 140, 177–78, 243
Real Time, 155
recessions, xiv, xviii, 53, 205, 220, 231–32, 238
Redmond, WA, 168
regulation, regulators, xxii–xxiii, 101–15, 119–28, 131–32, 164, 188, 205, 208, 211–12, 224, 228, 230, 232–33, 236–37, 243. See also names of individual regulatory agencies
“regulatory capture,” 103
Reichl, Ruth, 165
Reid, Harry, 15
Republicans, Republican, 62, 205–6
Reynolds, Matthew, 174
Rise and Fall of Monetarism, The (Smith), 214
Roaring ’20s, 232
“robber barons,” 85
Robertson, Oscar, 143
Rock, Arthur, 9–10
Rockefeller, John D., 52, 60, 126
Rocky, 108
Rolling Stones, the, 4–6, 12, 36
Romney, Mitt, 62
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 21
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 21, 232–34
Roubini, Nouriel, 228–29
Royal Navy, 158
Rubenstein, David, 119
Russia, Russians, 54, 135, 137–38, 167, 25
Russians, The (Smith), 137
Ryan, Buddy, 86
S
Saban, Nick, 221
Sahara Hotel, 80
Samuelson, Paul, xv
San Antonio Spurs, 64
Sands, the, 80
San Francisco MacWorld, 82
San Leandro, CA, 149
Sarbanes-Oxley, 211
Saturday Night Live, 56
Saudi Aramco, 162
Savile Row, 141
savings, saving, xiv, xvi, 16, 20, 38–39, 45, 49, 61, 72–75, 96, 137, 140, 169, 190, 192–93, 207, 226, 238
Say, Jean-Baptiste, 143, 147, 244
Schramm, Tex, 35
Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 119
Seattle, WA, 64, 66, 83–84, 142, 175
Secrets of the Temple (Greider), 214
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), 102, 222
“seen” and “unseen” in economics, 14–25, 24, 46, 75, 80–81, 85, 113–14, 183, 224
Seven Fat Years, The (Bartley), 23, 25, 33, 106, 135, 142, 159, 244
Shell Oil, 159
Shenzen, 151
Shepherd, Cybill, 69
Shula, Mike, 221
Silicon Valley, CA, 10, 23, 59, 81, 83, 113–14, 141–42, 152–53, 208, 224
Simple Life, The, 43
Simpson, O. J., 119
Skippy peanut butter, 197
slavery, 156
Sloan, Allan, 18–19
Smith, Adam, 3, 69, 75–76, 176, 211, 229, 244
Smith, Hedrick, 137
Smith, Malcolm, 175
Smoot-Hawley Tariff, 234
Snow, John, 209
Solyndra, 24
Soon-Shiong, Patrick, xvii, 60
South by Southwest (SXSW), 130
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology, 210
South Korea, 223
Spain, 166–67
Spitznagel, Mark, 11–13
Sports Illustrated, 31–32
Springfield, MA, 11
Stallone, Sylvester, 108
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, 192
Staples Center, 3–4
Staubach, Roger, 34–35
Steinbrenner, George, 49–50
Steyn, Mark, 28–30
Stigler, George, 103
St. Louis Rams, 130
Stockett, Katherine, 130–31
Stone, Oliver, 57
Stories I Only Tell My Friends (Lowe), 7
Stratten, Dorothy, 70
subprime market, subprime sector, 103
Sunset Strip, 3
Super Bowl, 31, 33–34, 39, 64–66, 130, 173, 175, 191, 196, 199–200
Superman, 59
Swenson, Roland, 129–31
Switzer, Barry, 34
T
Tamny, John, xi–xviii
Tango & Cash, 108
tariffs, xv, xxiii, 209, 234, 237
tax code, xii, 41, 44, 50, 91, 95
taxes, xii–xiii, xviii, xxii, 3–10, 12–14, 20–21, 30, 37–39, 45, 49, 73, 91, 95–96, 156, 161, 188, 203–4, 232, 234, 237, 243, 245
as penalty on work, 3–10
tax rates, xii, 4–6, 8, 12–15, 28, 36, 38, 205–6, 233
Taylor, Jerry, 159
Tel Aviv, 159
Tennessee Titans, 71
Tenth Amendment (U.S. Constitution), 94
Terminator, The, 119
Texas, 15, 34, 63, 70, 102, 129, 195, 204, 210
Texas Pacific Group, 63
There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere (Swisher), 123
They All Laughed, 70
Thiel, Peter, 20
This Is Spinal Tap, 31–32
Time Warner, 122–25
Titanic, 218
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 80, 213
Tolstoy, Leo, 167
Toreador Research & Trading, 140, 189, 244
trade, xii–xiii, xviii, xxii–xxiii, 7, 72–73, 86, 104–5, 120, 123, 135–42, 147, 155–56, 158–59, 165–70, 177–78, 182–85, 188, 205–6, 208, 212, 220, 227, 230, 232, 234, 237, 239
trade deficits, 135–42
Transportation Security Administration (TSA), 112
Treatise on Political Economy, A (Say), 143
Treat of Nanking, 139
trickle-down economics, 9
Trio, 167
Trotter, Charlie, 166
Turbulent Skies (Heppenheimer), 111
Twentieth Century Fox, 14
Twitter, 20
U
Uber, 8–9
Undistributed Profits Tax (1936), 233
unemployment, 76, 86–88, 169, 193–95, 197–98, 232, 234
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), 137–38
United Airlines, 63
United States, the
child labor in, 85–86
consumer-price index of, 197
debt of, 26–29
deficit of, 27–29
economy of, xiv, xxi–xxii, 26–27, 37, 72, 138–39, 196, 225, 229–30
energy policy of, 161–63
financial crisis in, xv–xvi, 238
gold standard and, xxiii, 178, 181–82, 184–85, 200–1, 208, 229
government of, 230
housing crisis and, 224
immigration to, 63–64
industries in, xiv–xv, 19, 23, 46, 53, 60, 74, 84–85, 111, 127, 160, 165, 224
“outsourcing” from, 150–52, 195
predictions of doom for, 29
regulation in, 122
tax rates in, 12, 15, 37–38, 91–97, 161, 234
trade and, xiii, 138–41, 156–59, 167–68, 184–85, 206
University of Alabama (Crimson Tide), 65–66, 221
University of California at Berkeley, 10
University of Florida (Gators), 102, 104
University of Louisville, 102
University of Miami (Hurricanes), 31, 102
University of Michigan (Wolverines), 70, 101–2, 107, 131–32
University of Southern California (USC), 66, 70, 221
University of Texas (Longhorns), 70, 102, 129
UPS, 151
US Airways, 122
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 196
U.S. Congress, the, 16, 22, 24, 45, 94, 104, 224, 226, 229, 235
U.S. Department of Energy, 24
U.S. Department of Justice, 122, 125
U.S. Postal Service, 111
U.S. Treasury Department, 202, 207, 209–10
bailouts by the, xvi, 221, 226, 235
V
Van Doren, Peter, 159
Vanity Fair, 46
Venetian, the, 80
venture capitalism, capitalists, 9, 22, 26–27, 82, 153, 160, 189–90
Vietnam, Vietnamese, 150–51
Volkswagen, 81
W
Wachovia, 212
Wade, Dwyane, 64
Wallison, Peter, 104
Wall Street, xvi, 56, 61, 105, 182, 244
symbolism of, 181
Wall Street, 57
Wall Street Journal, 70–71, 103, 131, 138, 174, 181, 194, 197, 217, 242
“Mansion” section, 163
Walters, Barbara, 217–18
Walton, Sam, 60
Wanniski, Jude, xviii–xix, 155, 244, 248
War and Peace (Tolstoy), 167
Warner, Kurt, 130–31
Washington Post, 87
Washington Redskins, 87
Watergate scandal, the, 202
Way the World Works, The, xix, 155
Wealth and Poverty (Gilder), xviii–xix, 203
wealth inequality, 53–67
and reduction of lifestyle inequality, 59–61
Wealth of Nations, The (Smith), 3, 69, 176, 211
Wells Fargo, 212
Western Kentucky University (Hilltoppers), 102, 104
West Germany, 225
When Money Dies (Fergusson), 199, 214
Where Did I Go Right? (Brillstein), 56
Whiskey A Go Go, 3
Wieden+Kennedy, 151
Wilde, Oscar, 217
Williams, Ricky, 70
Williams, Robin, 138
Williamson, Kevin, 29–30
Wilson, Russell, 65
Winners, The (Dunne), 55
Woods, Tiger, 34
Woodson, Charles, 101–2
Wozniak, Steve, 148
Wynn, the, 80
Y
Yamani, Sheik, 159
Z
Zanuck, Dick, 14
Zimbabwe, 28