The Remarkable Redneck Air Force of North Carolina
The relief effort after Hurricane Helene is powered by private citizens, and volunteers have discovered that it's better to ask forgiveness than permission.
The relief effort after Hurricane Helene is powered by private citizens, and volunteers have discovered that it's better to ask forgiveness than permission.
The co-founder of Ideas Beyond Borders argues that there is "no better independence than economic independence."
The paper explains how immigration restrictions severely undermine both the "negative" and "positive" economic liberty of receiving-country natives. It also adapts my analysis of this topic for a British audience.
AFIP is an "unnecessary bureaucracy" that stifles economic freedom, says Milei's government.
Geothermal projects promise nearly limitless energy, but they are being stymied by environmental policies.
The Jones Act makes the North Slope’s resources inaccessible to the state’s energy-starved residents.
But consumers will pay a price.
Drew Johnson wants to help define the post-Trump GOP.
As it stands, the program effectively redistributes money from younger and poorer people to richer people.
Three American economists win Nobel Economics Prize for showing how free markets and democratic governance engender prosperity.
There are many explanations for the slow, long-term decline in work force participation among American men. Undocumented immigration doesn't seem to be a major factor.
Anti-market progressives dominate the Biden administration. Their policies also help discredit it.
These policies may sound good on paper—but they would be disastrous in reality.
For more than three decades, the Institute for Justice has shown that economic freedom and private property are essential safeguards for ordinary Americans.
Katherine Tai said tariffs were "leverage" against China, but now she admits that China hasn't made "any changes to its fundamental systemic structural policies."
Mellor was cofounder and longtime president of the Institute for Justice, one of the nation's leading public-interest law firms.
Similar price hikes would hit smartphones, laptops, tablets, and televisions.
The former president's increasingly lopsided economic policy proposals have the feel of throwing spaghetti at the wall.
This election is all about pursuing short-term political highs while willfully ignoring long-term problems. What could pair better with that than a cigarette?
An examination of how Donald Trump's appointments to the Supreme Court have affected business interests.
Donald Trump's plan for massive tariff increases is particularly dangerous because the White House could likely implement it without any new congressional authorization.
When they entered the White House, the budget deficit was a pandemic-influenced $2.3 trillion, and it was set to fall to $905 billion by 2024. It's now twice what it was supposed to be.
Yes. But there might be one more key opportunity to rein in presidential powers over trade.
According to recent data, people work less—and actually end up deeper in debt.
Spending increased by 10 percent last year, while tax revenue increased by 11 percent. Interest payments on the debt shot up by 34 percent.
The candidate’s protectionism offsets some otherwise positive tax ideas.
Everyone benefited when I manufactured my invention in China, but Americans benefited more.
To give storm victims the best chance at recovery, let local knowledge and markets guide decisions.
And it would wreck the economy.
Government incompetence strikes again, turning the wine industry upside down with red tape and confusion.
Eliminate the domestic content requirements of the Buy American Act, don't expand them.
The dockworkers' strike is over, but America's ports will be some of the least efficient in the world whether they are open or closed.
A bitter election calls for a cocktail—and a lesson in the lunacy of price controls.
Housing is unaffordable because regulations have prevented its commodification.
Trump's protectionist running mate comes out against “cheap, knockoff toasters” and common sense.
Vance says higher energy prices make building houses more costly. What, then, do tariffs on steel and lumber do?
Plus: Israeli troops cross into Lebanon, prayer illiteracy on full display, veeps joust, and more...
How the National Flood Insurance Program subsidizes living in high-risk flood zones.
The narrower version put forward by her campaign is still bad, but much less so than the much broader one floated earlier.
Organ donations in the U.S. are controlled by a network of federally sanctioned nonprofits, and many of them are failing.
Special interests and government prevent the free market from working the way it should in the healthcare industry, making many Americans poorer and sicker.
A lot more than Oren Cass and J.D. Vance want you to think, and Americans wouldn't like the tradeoffs necessary.
Federal investigators say police in Lexington, Mississippi, used illegal searches, excessive force, and kept residents in jail when they couldn't pay off old fines.
If the former president wins the 2024 race, the circumstances he would inherit are far more challenging, and several of his policy ideas are destructive.
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The budget could be balanced by cutting just six pennies from every dollar the government spends. It used to require even less.
His ideas would leave us poorer and less free.
Economist Jeremy Horpedahl breaks down the economic outlook for Millennials and Gen Z and assesses how the 2024 presidential candidates' policies stack up against reality.
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