Anthony O'Brien

Lauren Sanchez Bezos and Jeff Bezos on Saturday, June 28, 2025, leave Harry's Bar in Venice, Italy, the day after their wedding. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Opinion: Billionaires are not to blame for poverty

November 15, 2025 at 7:31 a.m.

Opinion: To avoid poverty graduate from high school, get a full-time job and marry before you have kids

The author asserts that people predicting massive job loss due to artificial intelligence are forgetting the American economy tends to absorb technological change such as the transition from horses to automobiles. (Lloyd Fox/The Baltimore Sun)

Opinion: AI job market doomsday predictions off the mark

August 5, 2025 at 7:30 a.m.

Opinion: The flexibility of the U.S. labor market means that it has shrugged off many waves of technological change.

The Dixie Cup manufacturing plant in Wilson has been vacant since 2011. The decline in U.S. manufacturing has not led to a worse economic situation for most Americans, the author asserts. (Rich Rolen/Special to The Morning Call)

Opinion: The ‘good old days’ aren’t coming back thank goodness

May 27, 2025 at 7:30 a.m.

Opinion: The decline in manufacturing jobs has not led to a drop in the U.S. standard of living

President Donald Trump signs executive orders Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in the Oval Office in Washington, D.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/TNS)

Opinion: Killing DEI is worth all of Trump’s other mistakes

April 9, 2025 at 10:02 a.m.

Opinion: Trump deserves applause for leading a counterrevolution against DEI.

FILE – Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally, July 31, 2024, in Harrisburg, Pa. Trump’s false attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris’ Black identity have worried top Republicans that Trump may lose a campaign they still see as favorable for him. They say he should focus solely on the economy and immigration. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Your View: Six things Trump can do to stimulate the economy

November 21, 2024 at 7:31 a.m.

Opinion: Trump’s key economic objective should be to increase productivity growth by unleashing the power of the market.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the Women's March, April 15, 2023, in Los Angeles. Harris is embracing her role as the Democrats' leading champion for abortion rights in the 2024 election. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)

Your View: Democratic candidates taking extreme view on abortion

October 4, 2024 at 7:36 a.m.

What is the Democrats’ position on abortion? It’s difficult to say with certainty because Democrats have been shy of stating their views directly.

President Joe Biden speaks at an event commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act on Monday, July 29, 2024, at the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Your View: Am I taking crazy pills? Biden’s no moderate

August 9, 2024 at 7:31 a.m.

Opinion: Why has Joe Biden been such a lousy president? The main problem is that he ran headlong into O’Brien’s Iron Law of Politics: Leftists stink at governance.

Pro-Palestinian Pasadena City College students walk out of class as they demonstrate against the Israel-Hamas war April 30, 2024, in Pasadena, Calif. (Sarah Reingewirtz/The Orange County Register via AP)

Your View: Economics drives antisemitism, from the Middle Ages to now

July 3, 2024 at 7:30 a.m.

Opinion: Theological disputes are clearly not at the heart of current antisemitism. It isn’t fundamentalist Christians who these days are calling for the expulsion of Jews “from the river to...

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on proposed spending on child care and other investments in the "care economy" during a rally Tuesday, April 9, 2024, at Union Station in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Your View: A lesson in economics for President Biden

May 1, 2024 at 7:01 a.m.

Opinion: Were corporations very greedy in the 1970s, but quite altruistic from 2012 to 2019, only kind of greedy in the early 1990s, and then very greedy again in the...

The container ship Ever Libra is moored at the Port of Los Angeles. A 2023 poll conducted for the Chicago Council on Global affairs found that 74% of those surveyed thought that international trade is good for the U.S. economy and 82% thought that international trade is “good for consumers like themselves.” Damian Dovarganes/AP

Your View: Trump and Biden have one thing in common: bad economic policies

March 8, 2024 at 7:30 a.m.

Opinion: There are bad policies, there are stupid policies, and, in a class by themselves, are Biden and Trump’s recklessly destructive trade policies.

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