Home-Based Businesses Win Relief From Regulators
A recent boom in entrepreneurship challenges red-tape hurdles.
A recent boom in entrepreneurship challenges red-tape hurdles.
Researchers found that giving people $1,000 every month for three years resulted in decreased productivity and earnings, and more leisure time.
The New Right talks a big populist game, but their policies hurt the people they're supposed to help.
The candidate supports gun rights, wants to privatize government programs, and would radically reduce the number of federal employees.
Sen. Rand Paul writes that repealing the Robinson-Patman Act would help bust inflation.
Voters should not dismiss the former president's utter disregard for the truth as a personal quirk or standard political practice.
Despite the party’s alleged turn against regime change wars, Pompeo’s stab-in-the-back myth has Republicans convinced that the same policy will work this time.
Reason's Emma Camp attended the Republican National Convention to ask attendees if they still believe in the power of free markets.
Under the law, the feds couldn't deny you a job or security clearance just because you've used marijuana in the past.
This week left no doubt that the GOP's current leadership wants the government to do more, spend more, and meddle more.
We asked delegates at the Republican National Convention whether a second Trump term would address America's debt problem.
Tariffs lead to trade wars, limit competition, and reduce innovation. But both Trump and Biden want more of them.
There seems to be general bipartisan agreement on keeping a majority of the cuts, which are set to expire. They can be financed by cleaning out the tax code of unfair breaks.
If voting was the solution to the ills of America's working class, wouldn't it have worked by now?
Libs of TikTok is blasting out screenshots of random people's offensive posts to her millions of followers in hopes of claiming their scalps.
Sen. Rand Paul writes that the lawsuit punishes Apple for a feature its customers like.
Growth of regulation slowed under former President Trump, but it still increased.
Both parties—and the voters—are to blame for the national debt fiasco.
We're looking at four more years of anti-tech and anti-business antics from the FTC no matter who wins this November.
The high-profile fight with UPS didn't improve working conditions as much as O'Brien promised.
Opening night of the Republican National Convention programmed a central issue with a Trumpian twist: "Make America Wealthy Again."
The Ohio Senator is one of the Party's leading advocates of protectionism, economic planning, and immigration restrictions.
In a "novel" order concerning the app NGL, the agency takes aim at online anonymity and at minors on social media.
Yes, trade tariffs cause higher prices. Trump never understood that, and now Biden apparently has forgotten it.
Competing visions on tipping policies highlight the differences in the candidates’ approaches to winning over working-class voters—but neither will provide much benefit.
Both parties—and the voters—are to blame for the national debt fiasco.
"I don’t care to replace a left-wing nanny state with a right-wing nanny state," the onetime presidential hopeful said this week.
Good intentions, bad results.
Wealth taxes discourage investment, shrink wages, and don’t generate much revenue.
The Biden administration's $60 billion expansion of the IRS has netted $1 billion in new revenue so far.
Although former President Donald Trump's deregulatory agenda would make some positive changes, it's simply not enough.
"I've been in the business for 25 years...I never had to increase the amount of pricing that I did this past time in April," one business owner told the A.P.
Yes, cheap imports hurt some American companies. But protectionist trade policy harms many more Americans than it helps.
Which party can do the least to fix America's troubled old-age welfare system?
"Documented Dreamers" continue to have to leave the country even though this is the only home many have ever known.
Dennis Pratt and Gene Epstein debate the efficacy of ethical and consequentialist arguments for libertarianism.
Economists Gene Epstein and David Friedman debate the merits of the Austrian and Chicago schools of economics.
The U.S. has successfully navigated past debt challenges, notably in the 1990s. Policymakers can fix this if they find the will to do so.
Those three presidential candidates are making promises that would have bewildered and horrified the Founding Fathers.
The national debt has become an alarm bell ringing in the distance that people are pretending not to hear, especially in the city that caused the problem.
"Period during which America's national debt was about $75 million"
Donald Trump had a point before his campaign walked it back.
And you have to admit, he's got a point.
Biden's incoherence and Trump's comparatively cogent lies demonstrate just how poorly the two-party system serves supporters of small government.