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 […]
Business & Economics
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 […]
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 […]
Stossel: Inequality Myths – ReasonTV
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The 5 Counties with the Highest Median Household Income All Reside in the D.C. Area
I periodically will make use of ‘most depressing‘ in the title of a column when sharing bad news. And new data from […]
Universal Basic Income Is a (Costly) Socialist Pipe Dream
Universal basic income has had a phenomenal year in 2018 when it comes to publicity. Silicon Valley billionaires, academics, and […]
Venezuela Shows What Happens When Planners Pretend Prices Don’t Matter
The disastrous state of Venezuela’s health system is yet another example of the calamity that has befallen that country under dictatorial socialism. […]
Central Banking Is Central Planning
By Richard M. Ebeling Wednesday, April 24, 2019 Central Banking At a time when the appeal of and demands for […]
The National Debt is the Most Serious Crisis America Faces
A generation ago, the national debt stood at just a smidgen over USD $4 trillion and a young presidential candidate […]