"By excluding environmental groups, we get a distorted picture about the value of our natural resources,” says Shawn Regan of the Property and Environment Research Center.
The West needs markets in water, not allocations based on political considerations.
Today's antitrust activists forget that big companies with significant market share come and go.
After returning from space yesterday, Jeff Bezos thanked Amazon customers who made his fortune possible.
Monetary policy can't work optimally until we free up the economy in other important ways.
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Are you ready for 30 percent cuts in benefits to keep the program alive?
The American Families Plan hits individuals with identical net worths very differently.
Prohibitions drive hazardous activities underground, which makes them more risky.
Taken together, these six measures would have a major impact on the way we shop, chat, and otherwise go about our business online.
"We went from agricultural poverty to a country characterized by middle-class prosperity."
In many professional arenas, Wu's swings and misses would have consequences. In Wu's case, it landed him an advisory role in the Biden administration.
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Dr. Lee Gross' direct primary care practice takes the complexity and unaffordability out of health care.
In capitalist societies, the poor get richer.
It wasn't until his thirties that the economist started to turn from Marxism.
Why is it so hard for him to just admit he was wrong?
The new report doesn't reveal anything we didn't already know.
Lockdowns, tariffs, and other market interventions made wood an expensive commodity.
Using the process of elimination, the culprit seems clear.
The Biden administration is expending a lot of time and energy to make the country more uncompetitive than ever.
There are any number of ways regulators may seek to clamp down on cryptocurrencies.
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The value of our money may be the latest victim of pandemic-era policy.
More Puerto Ricans live in the 50 states than on the island, and it’s not hard to see why.
And yet neither Democrats nor Republicans represent those principles.
These rules drive up costs and distort markets while letting politicians claim credit for defending domestic industries from foreign competition.
By invoking the magic of good intentions, the Times justifies the U.S. acting like Russia and China.
Costly mistakes have allowed socialism to rise again in the 21st century.
The Jones Act shields the American shipping industry from foreign competition and harms both the environment and disadvantaged communities.
Free people and free markets reduced poverty in the past and are capable of doing so again.
"Direct primary care is about as close to a free market in health care as you've ever seen in our country," says Dr. Lee Gross.
The right and the left are ready to send fiscal conservatism off the rails.
Texas officials' rush to enforce price gouging laws during that state's winter storms will only make residents worse off.
Tech companies should have the same freedom to choose their customers.
There's a silver lining to partisan demagogues taking up peaceful entrepreneurship.
There’s no reason to fight over the content of your kids’ lessons when you can choose your own.
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.
A politicized vaccine distribution process intended to take price out of the picture has given the edge to the rich, connected, and powerful.
It turns out that there is a mechanism in capitalism for allocating scarce goods. It is called a "price."
Maxine Eichner's The Free-Market Family laments the bad public policy that makes it hard for parents to juggle work and child care, but often arrives at the wrong solutions.
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Breaking: A pair of donors just stepped in at the 11th hour with a huge challenge grant.
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Virginia Postrel's new book explores economics, politics, and technology through textiles.
