In 2024 Treasury fined Toronto-Dominion's U.S. arm $1.3 billion after a fentanyl network routinely deposited cash there. Purposefully? John Tamny argues it's difficult to make such a case. What did the fine add to a cost already borne?

Robert Maxwell died in 1991, yet still shadows Goldman Sachs. One bad-reputation client can cost a bank many good ones. John Tamny argues the 'debanking' charges are mistaken. If a bad client costs so much, what does a $1.2B fine add?

Tariff threats dominate again, built on claims the world rips America off. John Tamny argues the premise is false: American brands, dollars, and English saturate every prosperous country. The world feverishly buys Americana, not walling it out.

What does LeBron James have to do with free trade? In this April 2015 Fox & Friends interview, John Tamny uses a hypothetical switch to football to explain specialization: do what you do best, then buy from others doing their best. What do you do best?

Dollars circulate in sizable and rising amounts where production is rising, and in small and declining amounts where it shrinks. If the Fed were printing, the dollar wouldn't circulate globally. Why do producers worldwide still take it?

Tariffs are being credited with moving auto production to America. John Tamny argues the win is illusory: foreign production never threatened American workers. Production anywhere enriches trading partners rather than hollowing them out.

Why do producers accept dollars? They expect them to exchange for goods, services, and labor in similar amounts. That makes circulation a record of production, not of Fed policy. What's a currency worth if producers won't take it?

John Tamny argues that student loans shift attention from hard-won degrees to elite-school status. His view on education and opportunity, from a February 2021 Jimmy Sengenberger interview. What should a degree signal?

'Money velocity' is a myth. Money buys nothing. Production buys production, and money changing hands faster is a sign of rising production, not an overheating economy. What does a dollar buy with no producer on the other side of it?

Per the Washington Post's Liam Bowman, 59 have died in ICE custody since Trump returned to office. John Tamny: '59 humans healthy enough to work are now dead.' His essay connects the count to criminalized work. Is 59 still an anecdote?