To fight the coronavirus at home, France is removing all military forces from Iraq.

I quoted Maj. Gen. George S. Patton in my column last week: “A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.”

I have a special affinity for underdogs. Maybe that’s because I have been one myself. So my interest was piqued when I heard that a political novice from Baxley (pop. 4,400) by the name of Dr. Kandiss Taylor is running for the United States Senate seat vacated by Johnny Isakson.

It really is true. What goes around comes around. Please note that this Murphy Center piece is co-authored, a first for this column. Cliff Sowell and I have been friends for years, meeting as graduate students in the economics department at the University of Georgia. While we went our separa…

Business travel demands had me back on the road, almost immediately in the aftermath of 9/11. I got back on jets as I had been spending three to five days a week at that point for a few years. It didn’t seem odd to me, but I could see the shell shock all around me, starting with the empty se…

“We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself,” tweeted the president on Sunday night, adding that, after the current 15-day shutdown, “we will make a decision as to which way we want to go.”

By now, everyone should be aware we are living through an extraordinary moment. Yes, there have been past pandemics; and yes, some of them were even more virulent and lethal than this novel coronavirus may turn out to be. But this public health emergency is, for the vast majority of us, with…

On Monday, March 16, 2020, President Donald Trump took to the podium in the White House pressroom and began to make the case to the American people that the underlying operations of the country must change to stop the growth of the Wuhan coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, in the United States.

“It’s a war,” says President Donald Trump of his efforts to contain the coronavirus pandemic, and likening his role to that of “wartime president.”

It has long been my policy not to weigh in on what everyone else in the media happens to be pontificating about at the time. Hence, you saw little here about the Trump impeachment trial. To add to that cacophony seemed a waste of my time — and yours.

One of the things knowing economics has brought me is a general sense of amazement. An area of my amazement is in the power of voluntary associations of unrelated individuals. An example can be seen by the current interaction of COVID-19 and the logistics concept of supply chain.

Dozens of thousands of Georgians and millions of Americans spent the weekend heading home from various destinations, adventures, and vacations from Spring Break. In addition to some surprise screening procedures at dozens of U.S. airports, they are returning home to a vastly new normal.

“The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our life-time,” said Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey to a friend on the eve of Britain’s entry into the First World War.

In some ways, the spread of the coronavirus has been like watching a slow-motion car wreck: You can see the impact and the damage coming a long way off, but it seems like a long time coming. Then again, the accelerating speed of the fallout is breathtaking: sporting events, schools and even …

Dr. Brian Monahan, attending physician of Congress, told a closed meeting of Senate staffers this week that 70 million to 150 million Americans — a third of the nation — could contract the coronavirus. Dr. Anthony Fauci testified that the mortality rate for COVID-19 will likely run near 1%.

People are beginning to hoard toilet paper. I went on a normal shopping trip to buy toilet paper last week and could not find any because of all the panic-buying. Social media is full of people storming grocery stores and fighting over two-ply. Hand sanitizer is extremely difficult to find. …

The Democratic presidential field is down to two old, white males, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders. Though they are said to represent two polar-opposite wings of the party, on one issue, they are in complete agreement. They both have solemnly pledged to destroy millio…

I was proud recently when Marc Little, chairman of my organization, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, stood behind President Donald Trump at a White House event for Black History Month and prayed for him.

The national unemployment rate is the most closely watched of all economic statistics. A new estimate comes out at 8:30 am on the first Friday of every month, and whether it goes up, down or stays the same, it gets media attention.

“For this past couple of sessions, if not longer, we have been making it a priority in our caucus and in the Georgia House, to define and refine our state in its offering of a culture of life. These are not empty words, and our priorities are being supported with programs, with personnel and…

“Fortress Europe is an illusion.”

The results from this past week’s Super Tuesday primaries were stunning. Just days earlier, former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign had limped into South Carolina. Today, he is the clear frontrunner — having won South Carolina and then 10 of 15 Super Tuesday contests, and surging past Sen…

Sen. Bernie Sanders really would be an easier candidate for President Donald Trump to campaign against in November. Sanders is so far left, with a history of burning bridges, that Trump and the Republican Party could easily and deservedly vilify him.

Why in the world is the federal government, 20 years into the 21st century, continuing to pour tens of billions of tax dollars into little-used mass transit rail projects? In a digital age with increasingly popular and affordable door-to-door ride-sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft, universa…

A week ago, the candidacy of Joe Biden was at death’s door.

South Carolina Democratic voters have revived Joe Biden’s candidacy.

What a difference a decision makes. Wasn’t it just the other day that Georgia Republican Congressman Doug Collins of Gainesville, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, was the hero of the hour for his unwavering defense of President Donald Trump during his Kangaroo Court impea…

We are approaching the midpoint of spring semester. By now, I have spent seven weeks pounding students with the idea that when trade is free and unrestricted, and individuals and firms behave in their own self-interest, the market price that emerges is the magic price that results in economi…

“Not a single case of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has been reported this year, or in late 2004. It is the first winter without a case since the initial outbreak in late 2002. In addition, the epidemic strain of SARS that caused at least 774 deaths worldwide by June 2003 has …