3 Economic Myths That Need To Die
As we step into 2024, it's crucial to adopt a more informed perspective on these dubious claims.
As we step into 2024, it's crucial to adopt a more informed perspective on these dubious claims.
Private, for-profit intercity bus services are a remarkable example of free market transportation. Socialists naturally want to shut it all down.
Big government has been ruinous for millions of people. Charities aren't perfect, but they are much more efficient and effective.
Was Milton Friedman the most important libertarian of them all?
How to declare a ceasefire in the carbon tariff wars.
We're often told European countries are better off thanks to big-government policies. So why is the U.S. beating France in many important ways?
The best pizza isn't made in New York, Chicago, or New Haven. It's made on assembly lines.
Freer markets and property rights protections can be more efficient means to deal with localized food shortages.
American grocery stores are an underrated symbol of free market abundance.
Lots of Americans have an intolerance to FODMAPs—the sugars prevalent in garlic, onion, and many other foods.
A new Friedman biography ably explores the economist's ideas but sidesteps the libertarian movement he was central to.
A new Friedman biography ably explores the economist's ideas but sidesteps the libertarian movement he was central to.
David Friedman's anarchism doesn't have the answer for everything. That's the point.
The DAIRY PRIDE Act says it wants to protect consumers. In reality, it's trying to protect dairy farmers from economic competition.
A new report from the GAO highlights how America's system of sugar subsidies and tariffs costs consumers about $3.5 billion every year.
Despite their popularity, food trucks at the National Mall are paying a hefty price to operate.
David Friedman's anarchism doesn't have the answer for everything. That's the point.
Thank Swifties, not Joe Biden, for Ticketmaster's consumer-friendly pricing policy.
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Labor actions largely respond to policies that cause widespread pain.
Author Jacob Soll's commitment to an untenable historical thesis distorts the facts.
This progress has been widely shared, to the great benefit of the people at the bottom of the distribution.
The video site took out ads touting social media's benefits.
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The answer? Because special interests and government prevent the free market from working the way it should.
Sohrab Ahmari inadvertently gives even more reasons to reduce the power of the state.
"Subject of a 500-year-old purity law in Germany"
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"Until today, there was no such thing as a free market–focused crossword puzzle," says Stella Zawistowski.
A combination of "absurdly high" federal tariffs and excessive FDA regulations created the conditions for a crisis.
"Government in general does a lot of things that aren't necessary," says Jared Polis.
The Chile Project surveys neoliberalism's most polarizing experiment.
For an economics lesson, Nina Turner should try out Catan.
It's a short-sighted approach that distracts us from the more important question.
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New legislation would intervene in the credit card market to help businesses like Target and Walmart, who don't like the fees they have to pay to accept credit card payments.
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Próspera Inc. is creating a voluntary free market mini-state inside one of Latin America's poorest nations.
Lai's media company covered the Communist government's abuses when other Hong Kong media wouldn't.
At a minimum, the national debt should be smaller than the size of the economy. A committed president just might be able to deliver.
Why are some Republicans turning their backs on the free market principles we’ve advocated for generations?
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We once ranked No. 4 in the world, according to the Heritage Foundation. Now we're 25th.
An examination of French firms associates labor regulations with lower innovation and consumer welfare.
The new administration plans to end the state monopoly on oil and gas.