Protectionist Trade Policy Picks Winners and Makes Us All Losers
President Trump recently threatened to impose over $200 billion in new tariffs-on products ranging from car parts and purses to […]
Monthly Archives: September 2018
Are Food Stamps Really Reducing Labor Costs for Amazon?
On a recent segment of his popular Fox News program, conservative pundit Tucker Carlson took aim at elite billionaires Jeff […]
Stop Making Excuses for Protectionism
The Hong Kong dollar has been pegged to the U.S. dollar since 1983. It was also pegged to the dollar […]
Parents Should Be Free to Choose Safer Schools
As back-to-school time approaches, parents are bracing for school-related trauma. The threat of bullying, violence, school shootings, and mental health […]
The Economic Benefits of Legalized Sports Betting in the U.S. Would Be Huge
With sports betting making waves in the news sphere, it seems advocates for the legalization of sports wagering have hit […]
If You Hate Big Government, You Should Oppose the Death Penalty
From the Postal Service to the Department of Motor Vehicles, the government has proven to be as ineffective as Hillary […]
Welfare Spending Did Not Decrease Poverty, Capitalism Did
Last September, I shared some very encouraging data showing how extreme poverty dramatically has declined in the developing world. And […]
In 1970, Milton Friedman Called for Unilateral Free Trade Rather Than Retaliation. We Still Haven’t Learned That Simple Lesson.
Between 1966 and 1983, Milton Friedman (pictured above at the American Enterprise Institute in the 1970s) wrote more than 300 […]
Why the Supreme Court Shouldn’t Possess the Power to Bestow Individual Rights
The national anxiety over Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement from the Supreme Court of the United States seems disproportionate to size […]
Marginal Tax Rates Matter. Here’s an Intro.
Three years ago, I shared two videos explaining taxation and deadweight loss (i.e., why high tax burdens are bad for […]
Unemployment Has Bottomed Out. So Where’s the Wage Growth?
Originally posted on National Review’s The Corner. It’s been a while since we’ve had such low unemployment. pic.twitter.com/DcFEQPSdJ7 – Michael […]
Elizabeth Warren Looks to Make Cronyism Great Again
Donald Trump wants to make protectionism great again. Bernie Sanders wants to make socialism great again. And if we continue […]
The Troubling Internal Logic of the Far Left’s Calls for Violence
Before comedian Louis CK was drummed out of show business for sexual misconduct, he offered a prophetic insight into the […]
What the Origins of Money Teaches Us about Spontaneous Order
Money has been around for most of human history. From Mesopotamia (or even earlier), all civilizations have employed some kind […]
Why California Cities Are Becoming Unlivable
In July, the mayor of San Francisco frankly stated that poverty in the city is so bad, that “there is […]
Free Trade or Protectionism: Let’s Boil It Down to the Basics
The policies and, even more, the tweets of the current President of the United States have made trade and trade […]