Free Markets
Oil Export Restrictions Holding America Back
Regs make it nearly impossible to sell our growing supply overseas
The Quiet and Growing Success of Private Food Labeling
Most mandatory government food labeling schemes stink. Private ones usually don't stink. Problem, meet solution.
Anti-Food Truck Meddling Ends Up Ruining Miami Farmer's Market
The unintended consequences of not letting consumers have what they want
Wisconsin Adopts Free-Market Policies as Neighboring Minnesota Expands Government
Consider 'em laboratories
Female Breadwinners and the Power of the Market
Fox got it wrong. Freer markets have made freer women.
Michael Lind's Obtuse Attack on Liberty and Libertarianism
Statists like him are on the wrong side of history
Obama's "Fairness" Economy Has Backfired
There are two obvious ways to start fixing income disparity, and neither seems to interest the president.
Latest Video Game Violence Overreach: Rules that Have Already Been Struck Down
Congressman wants to regulate video games like porn with about as much likelihood of success
Inauguration Day Ticket Scalpers Worry Chuck Schumer
A number of tickets were made available on Ticketmaster for $60, now fetching up to $2,000
Cash-Only Surgery Center Becomes a Model for Free-Market Health Care
It actually posts competitive prices up-front and won't deal with Medicaid or Medicare
Pacific Nations Dominate Top-Ranking Economically Free Countries
Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland
How the Consumer Became King
Stores don't open on Thanksgiving because they want to; they open because shoppers reward those that do.
Legalize Insider Trading
Prohibiting people from profiting from their access to information makes the economy less fair and less free.
Who Killed Hostess?
Unions, management and the market all had their swings at the former snack giant
Why U.S. Health Care Costs More Than Canada's: "A Mercedes Costs More than a Corolla"
Q&A with the Montreal Economic Institute's Michel Kelly-Gagnon
Californians Flee in Search of Free Economies
Texas, Nevada and Arizona thank their neighbor for the new workers and capital
When Liberals Misread Bastiat
Slate's Matt Yglesias furnishes the latest example of "vulgar liberalism."
Where Free-Market Economists Go Wrong
Subsidies, stimulus, regulations, protectionism, trade restrictions, government-bank collusion, zoning, bailouts and more do not equal a "free" market.
Got a Pencil? You Didn't Build That
Nobody, Leonard Read once explained, can make a pencil by himself.
Why Bill Clinton Should Be Giving the Keynote Address at the RNC Convention
If Clinton actually used his perspective, he'd be giving a rousing convention speech on the benefits of free trade and free markets.
