When the Government Makes Wildfires Worse
Federal policies are subsidizing people's choices to build homes in harm's way.
Economics
Nationalist Conservatives Are Abandoning the Ideas of Liberty
We should prefer drag queens in libraries over despots in the government.
How Congress Could Cement State-Level Progress on Occupational Licensing Reform
The Restoring Board Immunity Act would give states yet another reason to rein in overzealous licensing authorities.
Are Gavin Newsom's $600 Checks a Redistributive Vote-Buying Scheme or Welcome Return of Stolen Goods?
California's embattled governor wants to spend $8 billion of the state's surprise budget surplus on individual payments to state residents.
Biden's $1.9 Trillion 'Rescue Plan' Isn't Saving the Economy. It's Holding It Back.
The economic aid package paid people not to work. So it's no surprise that many aren't working.
Yes, the National Debt Matters
Many Democrats and Republicans act like spending isn't an issue. Here's why they're wrong.
John Samples: Facebook's Oversight Board Was Right To Uphold Trump Ban
A member of the board (and a Cato Institute vice president) defends the controversial decision to kick the former president off the social media platform.
Laws Against Price Gouging Won't Fix the Long Lines at the Gas Station
Don't punish businesses for raising prices during a crisis.
States Hope Labor Shortage Will Shrink as They Ditch Federal Unemployment Benefits
Plus: Remembering "sexual-subculture pioneer" Pat Bond, debunking gender gap hyperbole around jobs, and more...
Small Cracks in the Restrictive Wall of Occupational Licensing Across the Nation
With depressing job reports, why not eliminate more laws that keep people from doing jobs they want to do and people want to pay them to do?
The Gender Gap in Pandemic Job Losses Has Been Wildly Exaggerated
Jobs data casts doubt on the idea that the COVID-19 pandemic is uniquely setting women back.
Biden Claims 5 Past Fed Chairs Back His Jobs Plan, but 2 Are Dead and 2 More Have Been Quiet About It
Plus: Boomer electoral power dwindling, U.S. migration patterns appear linked to pandemic restrictions, and more...
The Era of Small Government Is Over
Is there any hope to check the growth of the state?
New Jobs Report Shows the Government Gets the Unemployment It's Paying For
High unemployment benefits are getting the blame for disappointing job growth in the midst of a worker shortage
Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Window Tax, Canadian Strip Clubs, Hero Pay (Vol. 3)
Good intentions, bad results.
More Than 300 Manufacturers Just Asked Biden To Repeal Trump's Steel Tariffs as Prices Skyrocket
Trump imposed huge tariffs on imported steel and Biden is keeping them in place even as American businesses beg for relief.
Biden's $2 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Will Hurt the Environment
The president says fighting climate change is one of his primary goals. His legislation would do no such thing.
Looming Budget Catastrophe in Pictures So Simple Even Congress Can Understand
Maybe drawings can deter elected officials from their outrageous spending habits where detailed reports have failed to attract their attention.
When Politics Makes It Impossible To Plan
For more than a decade, politicians have moved toward seizing short-term wins through any mechanism available to them.
The Equity Mess
Despite their professed goals, Democrats' pandemic policies have widened disparities between races, classes, and genders.
Economic Lessons From COVID-19
What the pandemic has re-taught us about the perils of planning, the power of incentives, and the complexities of externalities.
The U.S. Won't Beat China by Being More Like China
Biden's argument about a strategic competition with China ignores America's advantages.
12 Years to Disaster? How Climate Activists Distort the Evidence
The data behind apocalypse 2030 is based on placing blame, not predicting the future.
A Keynesian Warmonger Gets What He Deserves in the Otherwise Awful Without Remorse
A terrible, Tom Clancy-inspired action movie that ends in a lame speech touting war as economic stimulus.
How the NFL and the Players Union Screw Draft Picks Out of Millions
During the draft, they can't even endorse snacks that the league hasn't approved.
The FDA Wants To Lower Nicotine in All Cigarettes, Which Will Make Smokers Smoke More
This is the same agency that cost thousands of lives with its botched vaccine rollout.
If Biden Truly Wanted To Create Jobs, He Wouldn't Support the PRO Act
Destroying the ability of freelancers to make a living is union protectionism, not economic opportunity.
When Joe Biden Talks About Worker Choice, He Means Only 1 Choice
His administration is twisting history and federal law to claim the government must encourage collective bargaining.
Is International Surveillance of Cryptocurrency Use on Its Way?
Say what you will about the U.S., but its financial reporting rules are at least consistent.
Is Socialism Better Than Capitalism? A Soho Forum Debate
Jacobin's Ben Burgis says yes, Soho Forum's Gene Epstein says no.
Socialism or Capitalism? A Soho Forum Debate
Jacobin's Ben Burgis and Soho Forum's Gene Epstein debate which system better promotes freedom, equality, and prosperity.
California Has Seen a Staggering Amount of Unemployment Fraud During the Pandemic
But where is the outrage?
COVID-19 Industrial Policy Fails Again
A Connecticut company got a $138 million government contract in order to break America's supposed "dependence" on foreign-made syringes. It has yet to produce even a single one.
Why the Conservative War on Woke Capital Is Doomed To Fail
It will be coopted by regulation-loving progressives who oppose capitalism, not wokeness.
Foxconn Finally Admits It Won't Create 13,000 Jobs in Wisconsin
It now plans to employ just 1,454 people after bulldozing dozens of homes to make room for a factory Donald Trump once touted as the "eighth wonder of the world."
The House Just Voted To Let Marijuana Businesses Use Banks. Again.
Maybe this year it will pass the Senate too.
Scofflaws Paved the Way for Legal Marijuana
Defying authoritarian laws helps to preserve freedom and to undermine prohibitions.
Federal Banking Regulations Force Legal Weed Entrepreneurs To Behave Like Criminals
Federal law doesn't prohibit financial institutions from offering banking service to dispensaries and growers, but the added reporting requirements and threat of federal scrutiny keeps many banks away.
Josh Hawley's Dangerous 'Trust-Busting' Bill
Hawley’s legislation would give officials more room to unilaterally punish business behaviors they personally don’t like.
The Real Inflation Risk Is Political
The short-term inflation outlook isn't as grim as it looks, but the long-term situation could be awful
How Economists Learned to Love Minimum Wage Hikes
Would raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour cost jobs?
Stop the Steal? Organized Labor Can't Accept Loss in Amazon Unionization Election.
The pro-union left agrees with the MAGA right: If you can't beat 'em, claim they cheated.
Biden's $1.5 Trillion Budget Request Would Fund All Nails Needed for the Coffin of Fiscal Restraint
The White House is proposing an 8.4 percent boost in discretionary spending, which comes on top of Biden's $1.9 trillion pandemic relief bill, and his proposed $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan.
Chef Andrew Gruel on Capitalism, Cuisine, and Calling Gov. Gavin Newsom an Asshole
The founder of the Slapfish seafood chain battles arbitrary, non-scientific regulations and a punishing economy while reinventing the lobster roll.
