China's Big Tech Crackdown Shouldn't Be Cheered by Antitrust Fans in the West
An onslaught of antitrust and data-security crackdowns have threatened the country's biggest ride-sharing platforms, cryptocurrency exchanges, and messaging services.
Wealth
AOC Says Amazon Abuses Market Power, Ignores Fact That Customers Shop at Amazon Because They Want To
After returning from space yesterday, Jeff Bezos thanked Amazon customers who made his fortune possible.
Bezos Launching Into Space Will Probably Make Your Life Better Too
May our new space billionaires produce spinoff technologies for the rest of us to enjoy in due time!
Biden's New Death Tax Hits the Middle Class While Excluding Certain Wealthy Investors
The American Families Plan hits individuals with identical net worths very differently.
The Global Middle Class Has Tripled in Size Since 2000
And the global upper-middle class doubled.
ProPublica's Bombshell Tax Report That Wasn't
The new report doesn't reveal anything we didn't already know.
Americans Reject Far-Left Rhetoric About the Rich, Have Positive Views of Tech CEOs
Plus: Kentucky adopts school choice program, the vaccine passport debate heats up, and more...
Washington State Might Tax 4 People Billions of Dollars. What If They Leave?
A proposed wealth tax would collect 97 percent of its revenue from famous billionaires.
In Defense of COVID Billionaires
Billionaires may well have enabled our greatest (only?) policy successes in 2020.
Very Important People
Mears' effort to take readers behind the velvet rope and explore the world of clubbing proves both fun and sobering.
California Lawmakers Want a Wealth Tax to Soak the Rich for Living There. Also, for Leaving.
The proposed tax would apply to not just wealthy residents, but anyone who is wealthy who has lived in the state for the last 10 years.
Good Riddance to the Roman Empire
Maybe Rome needed to disintegrate before the West could grow wealthy.
The Truth About Income Inequality
Should we be worried about the wealth amassed by the so-called 1 percent?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: 'No One Ever Makes a Billion Dollars. You Take a Billion Dollars.'
What is the correct reward for the person who creates something that millions of people want badly enough to pay for it?
Stossel: Life Is Better Than Ever
Don't believe news reports—we're healthier, richer, and safer than ever before.
Impending Defeat for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Pestilence, war, famine, and death are all on the decline.
Stossel: In Defense of Capitalism
People acting in their own self-interest created modern prosperity, says Ayn Rand Institute's Yaron Brook.
Bernie Sanders Wants To Seize 77% of Dead Billionaires' Estates
The estate tax is a form of double taxation.
School Vouchers Aren't Welfare for the Rich
Data from North Carolina, Florida, and Arizona show how school choice programs take care of students who would otherwise be neglected.
The World Is Getting Better, Declare Op-Eds in Leading Newspapers
Doomslayer Julian Simon vindicated after 40 years.
Natural Disasters Are Destroying a Lower Percentage of Humanity's Stuff Since 1990
Absolute losses increased, but the proportion of losses relative to global GDP has dropped
Stossel: Bernie's Digital Media Empire
Bernie Sanders has millions of viewers who watch his socialist videos.
Getting Crony Capitalism Half Right
The solution to government interference isn't more of it.
Myth of the Evil Rich
As long as rich people don't collude with government, they make our lives better.
In Search of the Elusive Bitcoin Billionaire
Bitcoin is booming. Libertarians were there first. So where are all the cryptocurrency tycoons?
Trade Is a Labor-Saving Device
We each have two legitimate ways to acquire any good: produce it ourselves or acquire it through trade. For most goods, trade will be the lower cost method.
Climate Change Will Impoverish Millennials, Says Study
Only if you think merely tripling per capita GDP by 2100 is poverty
If You Think You're Rich Today, Just Wait Until Tomorrow: Instapundit on Progress
Forget Pope Francis and other naysayers. The world is getting richer, safer, and freer.
How Risk-Taking by the Wealthy Helps the Middle Class
Aim higher with tax reform to help average Americans.
Ronald Bailey Outlines Solution to Climate Change Over at Scientific American
Richer is more climate-friendly, especially for developing countries.
Are You Better Off Now Than You Were 20, 30, 40 Years Ago?
Declinists who focus on inequality and stagnant wages miss increased freedom and opportunities.
The Tesla Tax Break and Other Green Tax Credits Go Mostly to the Rich - Surprised?
The top income quintile received about 90 percent of all electric and hybrid car tax credits.
What Makes a Billionaire Bad? Just Add Government.
Cronyism, not the free market, is what makes income inequality harmful.
How Donald Trump Is Like John Hancock
The complicated political dynamics between rich presidential candidates and poorer ones far predate the 20th century.
Piketty Is Wrong: Rich Families Don't Generally Get Richer
Corporate CEO pay is, however, way out of hand.
If You Want to Be Rich, Choose Your Country of Birth Wisely
"There is nothing more valuable than a U.S. passport."
Hillary Clinton's Double Standard on 'Unaccountable Money'
She wants to get money out of politics-other people's politics, not hers.
Misleading Inequality Report Is Nothing to Fear
No, the richest 1 percent will not soon have as much wealth as the rest of us.
