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Happy Birthday, Botswana
Its prosperity and stability a testament to its first president, who did not seek to destroy the market economy he inherited.
Peak Oil? Cue Crickets Chirping
Great article asks "Whatever Happened to Peak Oil?" over at RealClear Politics*
Why Is Socialism So Damned Attractive? New at Reason
It's allure is a primitive evolutionary hold over.
China's Rare Earth Minerals Mercantilism Totally Fails: I Told You So Six Years Ago
Wall Street Journal has nice op-ed on China's rare earth bust.
Common Sense Organ Donation Reform Proposed
A proposal to study compensating organ donors and their families: not enough, but a start.
5 Ways Capitalist Chile is Much Better Than Socialist Venezuela
The story of Chile's success starts in the mid-1970s, when Chile's military government abandoned socialism and started to implement economic reforms.
The Solution to California's Drought: A Free Market in Water
How government created an artificial shortage of our most essential resource.
Millennials Hate Capitalism Almost as Much as They Hate Socialism
Seize the means of production? Meh. Millennials love private enterprise-as long as you don't call it "capitalism."
Yes, Free Markets Would Improve Healthcare Results
John Stossel responds to critics of his last column.
'Buy American' Hurts Americans
"Every part of my product is made in the USA." What could be wrong with that? Lots of things...
Free Markets Would Improve Hospital Service
Instead, hospitals are run like socialist bureaucracies.
Hooray for Hillary Clinton's Ties to Walmart
Sen. Sanders, however, seems to think that voters will be horrified to learn of Alice Walton's support for Clinton.
Free Markets Linked to Less Human Trafficking
Score one for capitalism and economic liberalization: countries with freer markets handle human trafficking better, say researchers.
There Are Better Ways to Handle Unwanted Animals Than Through Government
Private, market-based solutions less likely to end with the killing of animals.
Panama Papers Are About Government Corruption, Not 'Tax Evasion'
Governments will seek to focus on general tax evasion charges to distract from evidence of corruption by public officials.
Ronald Bailey Speaking at Florida Gulf Coast University on Saturday
Students for Liberty Conference on Free Market Environmentalism
Saving Earth's Biodiversity Through Markets and Technological Progress
A review of Half Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life by Edward O. Wilson
What Government Can Learn From Moore's Law
To make Washington more like Silicon Valley, we need expiration dates on legislation.
New York Yankees Don't Understand The Free Market
Baseball's ultimate capitalists don't like fans buying tickets for the prices they're actually worth on Stubhub.
Free-Market Education Radical Andrew J. Coulson, RIP
Author and Cato scholar wrote path-breaking book Market Education: The Unknown History.
Shut Up, Explained the Businessman: How Consumers Like You Get SLAPPed Down
Free market groups support Federal SPEAK FREE Act opposing "strategic lawsuits against public participation"
U.S. Falls Back Down the Economic Freedom Ranking
U.S. Economic Freedom Falls say Heritage Foundation Index of Economic Freedom 2016
Oil Price Super-Cycle Collapse: Party Like It's 1998?
Never bet against human ingenuity operating in free markets.
The 'Pink Tax' Is a Myth
Is the "pink tax" a corporate conspiracy, patriarchy in action, or just market preferences at work?
The New York Times Complains of Drug Price Hikes While Raising Its Own Subscription Fees
The freedom to set prices free of government coercion makes for better newspapers and better medicine.
Ted Cruz Is Wrong: Climate Change Does Not Necessarily Entail Progressive Policies
"Hot or cold, cooling or freezing, global egalitarian measures are required."
Should Women Be Allowed to Charge What the Market Will Bear for Their Eggs?
Yes. Next question.
Sanders and Clinton Vs. Capitalism
Neither seem to realize how much better life is, thanks to markets.
McDonald's 'Cage Free' Edict Gets Activists Clucking
Market decisions do more than new laws
If Pope Francis Wants to Help the Poor, He Should Embrace Capitalism
Markets and globalization have lifted billions out of poverty and lessened global inequality. So what's behind the pope's agenda?
Libertarians Liked the iPencil Before It Was Cool
Some 57 years before the Apple Pencil, Leonard Read wrote "I, Pencil."
There's Nothing Mysterious About the Market
The mystery is why we keep letting government get in the way.
Higher Wages Mean Fewer Hours at Some Walmart Stores
An extremely predictable lesson in consequences
Could Legal Marijuana Lead to an Industrial Building Boom in Denver?
Warehouses in short supply.
What Makes a Billionaire Bad? Just Add Government.
Cronyism, not the free market, is what makes income inequality harmful.
Wisconsin to Market Chain: Jack Up Those Prices or Else!
Depression-era law used to screw with competitors.
Your Band Sucks: Jon Fine on How the Indie Cultural Revolution Changed America for the Better
"If you're telling me Amazon is bad for culture, like seriously, fuck you," says memoirist of '90s alt-music scene.
Whole Foods' John Mackey: Why Intellectuals Hate Capitalism
They're jealous, he says, they side with rulers, and they don't understand how markets work.
The Economics of Software-Vulnerability Sales: Can the Feds Encourage 'Pro-Social' Hacking?
The question for cybersecurity-minded lawmakers should not be how to control the zero-day market but how to encourage more "white hat" trades and fewer destructive ones.
Economic Freedom Makes People Happy
New study finds that happiness correlates with living in a free society.
Coercion Is Bad Economics
Free markets generate value, deliver diversity, and spur better ways of doing things
