Most states managed to avoid much-predicted fiscal crises during the pandemic. Congress wants to shower them with more federal aid anyway.
Experts disagree on whether the move is a win for free association.
The plan would redistribute wealth, create distortions, and grow government.
A higher federal minimum would reduce employment and increase the deficit, according to a new nonpartisan government analysis.
Good intentions, bad results.
Some of them like the stock, but all of them think our financial system is broken.
Reimplementing 10 percent tariffs on aluminum imported from the United Arab Emirates for vacuous national security reasons only entrenches executive authority over trade.
"I don't think it is going to survive," Biden said on Sunday, though he promised to push for a higher minimum wage as a stand-alone bill in the future.
The free market economist and iconoclast died in December at the age of 84.
Biden should repeal Trump's food taxes immediately.
"It's an escape hatch from tyranny," writes the Human Rights Foundation's Alex Gladstein. "It's nothing less than freedom money."
California grocers have filed three lawsuits against local laws requiring "hero pay" during the pandemic.
Biden's recovery plan is a poorly targeted effort that would make the economy worse off in the long run.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The anthropologist and brand consultant explains why we need fewer blanket accusations of racism and more mutual respect and compassion.
It goes far beyond merely reversing awful Trump policies, but does still have some drawbacks.
The reconciliation process exists for a reason. Discarding it for political expediency should be viewed with skepticism.
The market's failure to produce an ideal outcome cannot alone justify activist policy, because governments can also fail to produce the ideal.
Minimum wage jobs aren't supposed to be career choices, but stepping stones on the way to other things. Everyone has to start out somewhere.
The last thing this game-inspired, meme-powered finance fight needs is federal meddling.
When the feds failed to track COVID-19, Emily Oster stepped in.
Pandering to maritime unions means higher costs and harsher lives for coastal minority populations.
American companies would need relief from Democrats’ COVID relief efforts.
American Compass Executive Director Oren Cass vs. the Cato Institute's Scott Lincicome on whether the U.S. should increase its intervention in the manufacturing industry.
American Compass Executive Director Oren Cass vs. the Cato Institute's Scott Lincicome on whether the U.S. should increase its intervention in the manufacturing industry.
Plus: How the U.S. covered up the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington school district is suing to force its teachers back to the classroom, and more...
California Democrats and their labor union allies are embracing anti-democratic principles to thwart the will of the people.
Biden is seeking unity, but bipartisan agreement on bad policy is nothing to cheer for.
A politicized vaccine distribution process intended to take price out of the picture has given the edge to the rich, connected, and powerful.
Five reasons why Trump's trade war didn't go the way he thought it would.
Let people join with the like-minded to reject officials and laws that don’t suit them and to construct systems that do.
Bill Allen was my multiple-times UCLA econ professor, author of The Midnight Economist and co-author of Alchian & Allen's University Economics.
Neither major party is a friend to limited government.
Bureaucracy keeps on regulating through the chaos
The lawmakers who passed A.B. 5 ignored the many benefits of contractor status.
More than 4,100 people died of COVID-19 yesterday across the country, but some New York medical providers are dumping vaccines instead of putting them in people's arms.
Ostrom was best known for her studies of how local groups manage natural resources.
Entrepreneurs discouraged by red tape even before COVID-19 need officials to leave them alone.
The Harvard economist explains how to expand opportunity for the young by deregulating housing, labor, and education.
Sen. Josh Hawley, a supporter of Trump's trade policies, lobbied to give a special exemption to a Missouri-based power tools manufacturer. Many other elected officials did too.
The United States was virtually alone in keeping schools closed this fall. As a result, public education—and cities—may never look the same.
Progressives want to spend an additional $435 billion to help people who've lost neither jobs nor income weather the pandemic.
Fortunately, 2020 is nearly at an end. Unfortunately, its events will leave one hell of a mark on the years to come.
