What a Funny Taylor Swift Video Can Teach Us About Health Care
Taylor Swift’s recent LASIK eye surgery has been making headlines after Jimmy Fallon showed footage of the singer acting “loopy” […]
Monthly Archives: October 2019
8 Books on Personal Growth That Can Help Launch Your Career
Professional development and career growth can be daunting—but with the right resources and preparation, the only constraint preventing you from […]
The Myth That People Work Harder Under Capitalism
In the not so distant past, people didn’t work hard, but not for the reasons the ahistorical or socialists think. […]
Chicago Teachers’ Strike Shows Why We Don’t Need Public Schools
As the Chicago teachers’ strike continues with no end in sight, 300,000 students spend another day outside of the public […]
The New Trickle-Down Theory of Economics
A recent New York Times opinion piece by David Leonhardt titled “The Rich Really Do Pay Lower Taxes” can best […]
Ricardo’s Theory of Comparative Advantage: The Least Understood Idea of Our Time
Opponents of those who advocate for private property rights and free markets often call them social Darwinists who wish to […]
The Strongest Support for School Vouchers Comes from Lower-Income Families
When it comes to education, the word voucher tends to elicit strong reactions in three broad public opinion camps. First, […]
California’s Power Problems Are Self-Inflicted
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), an investor-owned utility company serving 16 million customers primarily in Northern California, cut the flow […]
How Cronyism Created New York City’s Taxi Medallion Bubble
If one wanted to study the difference between an industry that exists in a very free market and its exact […]
About That Che T-Shirt
[Read this article in Spanish here.] Let’s say that all you knew about Adolf Hitler was that he painted scenic […]
Why a “Billionaire” Wealth Tax Would Hurt the Working Poor and the Middle Class
Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders wants to tax billionaires out of existence, or at least make them an endangered species. His […]
Medicare Hypocrisy for All
Ever since Senator Bernie Sanders made “Medicare for All” (M4A) the centerpiece of his campaign, it has attracted support, and […]
Deficit Day 2019 Just Arrived
Every year the Tax Foundation calculates Tax Freedom Day, the hypothetical day on which the average American citizen is done […]
I, Individual: Why the Individual Should Be Celebrated
If it’s a coincidence that “individual” begins with a letter that’s also a closely associated word, it’s a happy one […]
How Rent Control Threatens the American Dream
It’s no secret that many parts of the country are experiencing a housing affordability crisis. Homelessness is on the rise […]
12 Truth Bombs from Milton Friedman
American economist Milton Friedman rose to prominence in the second half of the 20th century as one of the leading […]