Tax Hikers Are Getting More Open about Targeting the Middle Class
Tax Hikers I’ve written several times that the left wants big tax hikes on poor and middle-class taxpayers. Simply stated, that’s the only […]
Business & Economics
Obamacare Subsidies Are Unconstitutional
Obamacare Subsidies Last week, President Trump issued an executive order instructing the heads of Health and Human Services and the […]
What Is ‘Capitalism’ Anyway?
Capitalism One of the leading ideological punching bags for well over one hundred years has been the ideas, institutions, and […]
Bitcoin and Blockchain Will End Wall Street Fraud
Blockchain Caitlin Long of Symbiont sits down with Reason’s Nick Gillespie to discuss how blockchain technology can make the financial […]
Best Defense against Sexual Harassment Is a Free Labor Market
Sexual Harassment Lin Farley, the person who coined the phrase “sexual harassment” in 1975, is today deeply unhappy about the […]
You Can’t Vote Math Out of Office
You Can’t Vote Math Out of Office This year, Deficit Day – that is, the day the federal government runs […]
Trump Is Quietly Deregulating All the Things
Trump Is Quietly Deregulating Most people alive in America today have probably never had the experience of sending a telegram. […]
Sharing May Be Caring, But Redistribution Is Not
Redistribution I had to have a frank discussion with one of my sons today. I have two of them, you […]
New Zealand’s New PM is Clueless about Capitalism
New Zealand Most politicians are feckless creatures driven by their insecurities to say anything and everything in hopes of getting […]
When It Comes to Innovating, Ask for Forgiveness, Not Permission
Innovating People sometimes ask me, “What is the most important concept in political economy?” The answer is easy, but subtle: […]
Free Trade Isn’t Killing Jobs
Free Trade The economic argument for free international trade is basically that people produce in order to consume, not the other way […]
Technology Is Not Pro-Monopoly
Technology In the fourth chapter of Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom, he specifically addresses the issue of monopolies. Specifically, the […]
Economic Freedom Is the Key to Female Empowerment
Rafia Zakaria made some outstanding points in her recent New York Times op-ed, “The Myth of Women’s ‘Empowerment’” – but she also made […]
The Scandalous Truth about Obamacare Is Laid Bare
It’s not just that Obamacare is financially unsustainable. More seriously, it is intellectually unsustainable, even though this truth has been […]
The World Is Getting Freer, Faster
Earlier today, the Fraser Institute published the 21st edition of its annual Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) report. The Canadian think-tank uses 42 data […]
Tax Hells, Not Tax Havens, Are the Problem
Not everybody appreciates my defense of tax havens. A Clinton Administration official accused me of disloyalty to America. The OECD threatened to throw me […]