Retail Stores Are Dying and We Should Let Them
Retail Stores Are Dying Last week, the discount shoe retailer Payless ShoeSource filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced it […]
Monthly Archives: November 2017
The Secret Billion Dollar Tax You’ve Never Heard About
Secret Billion Dollar Tax Last year, around this time, my father received a notice in the mail from a third-party […]
Thanksgiving Was a Triumph of Capitalism over Collectivism
Thanksgiving This time of the year, whether in good economic times or bad, is when we gather with our family […]
Goodbye Net Neutrality; Hello Competition
Net Neutrality At long last, with the end of “net neutrality,” competition could soon come to the industry that delivers […]
Government Is Lying to Us About Cybersecurity
Government Is Lying to Us About Cybersecurity In a press conference, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein stated that the “absolutist […]
Capitalism Doesn’t Care about Women, but It Does Liberate Them
Capitalism Doesn’t Care About Women “Your capitalistic attitude to women,” said the Soviet premier, “does not occur under communism.” Nikita […]
Cord Cutting
Cord Cutting Subscription Video Streaming Options Online: Amazon Prime 30-Day Free Trial: $119 per year or $13 per month, comes […]
Our Ancestors Escaped Crippling Poverty Because of Capitalism
Our Ancestors Escaped Crippling Poverty Because of Capitalism The free enterprise, or capitalist, system has done more to improve the […]
Your New Mailman Works for Amazon
Your New Mailman Works for Amazon There he was dropping off packages in the mail room. I picked up mine […]
Rich People Don’t Actually ‘Hide’ Their Money
Rich People Don’t Actually ‘Hide’ Their Money Why are Cubans so poor? They’ve done very well in the U.S., where […]
The Deep History of Taxation May Surprise You
Deep History of Taxation Two things in life are certain: death and taxes. So goes the saying. And yet despite […]
The 1950s Economic Golden Age Is a Myth
1950s Economic Golden Age Is a Myth In my decades of trying to educate policymakers about the downsides of class-warfare […]
In North Korea, Black Markets Are Saving Lives
Black Markets Are Saving Lives North Korea could, arguably, be considered the nation-state equivalent of a time-capsule; a society perpetually […]
Millennials Really Dig Bitcoin
Millennials Really Dig Bitcoin It’s become fashionable to malign millennials for killing everything from dinner dates to department stores. If […]
Education Is the State’s Greatest Tool for Propaganda
Education Is the State’s Greatest Tool for Propaganda In chapter 10 of The Road to Serfdom, Hayek describes how some […]
Fake News Is Still Free Speech
Fake News Free speech is one of the most settled principles of law and public policy, or so you might […]