How Minimum Wage Laws Are Like Poll Taxes
Here’s a letter to Mr. Eddie Ng: Mr. Ng: Thanks for your e-mail. You find my colleague Dick Wagner’s case […]
Monthly Archives: May 2019
Data Show California Is a Living Example of the Good Intentions Fallacy
During a speech at Harvard several years ago, Charlie Munger related a story about a surgeon who removed ‘bushel baskets […]
Government Thrives by Keeping People Blind to Its True Costs
Ever wonder why people put blinders on horses? As prey animals, horses have eyes on the sides of their heads […]
Slowing Productivity and Rising Inequality Have a Common Driver: Government Intervention
A growing chorus of alarmist voices decries the rising economic inequality in the Western world, especially in the United States. Surprisingly […]
Why We Need Hayek Today
One hundred and twenty years ago today, on May 8, 1899, Friedrich August von Hayek was born in Vienna. The […]
The Fearmongers Are Wrong about Artificial Intelligence and Robots
Thanks to the recent efforts of such figures as Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang and British Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, […]
Why Millennials Are Poorer Than Other Generations
One of the challenges in looking at income and wealth data is getting a sense of how different demographic groups […]
Guns or Butter: It’s Time to Be Honest about Which Is Driving Federal Debt
In October, Senate Democrats-led by insurgent 2016 presidential candidate and possible 2020 presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)–published a report […]
America’s Success Was Achieved by Limiting Government, Not by Government
Then-President Obama’s famous 2012 ‘you didn’t build that’ rationalization for not only increasing taxes but also for increasingly progressive taxes […]
The Future of Energy Sustainability Has Never Looked Brighter… Thanks to Free Markets
Depletion … pollution … security … climate change. These flashpoints of energy sustainability have been invoked time and again to […]
Chicago’s New PlayStation Tax Shows How Greedy Politicians Can Be
‘If it moves, tax it.’ That’s government’s eternal motto, as Ronald Reagan quipped. To this, the city government of Chicago […]
Rights and Non-Rights: A Simple Way to Distinguish the Two
“That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter […]
The Diversity Delusion (Heather Mac Donald Interview)
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