Uncle Sam Is Crippling Internet Access and Affordability
Debating access to deemed “public goods” is always a messy, dogmatic, and stinky mess. From healthcare to education to retirement, […]
Business & Economics
Deregulate Taxis, Don’t Regulate Uber
A recent New York Times article discussing taxi medallion owners in New York City illustrates how innovation and increased competition can lead to […]
In Defense of Free to Choose Medicine
Introductory note from FEE President Lawrence W. Reed: On August 18, we published my article entitled “Herpes Cure Needs Free to […]
The 5 Best Explanations for Why Unions Are Anti-Worker
Union Video of the Day I. From a 1980 lecture, Milton Friedman discusses the “real world effects of unions” in […]
Economic Freedom Is the Best Weapon Against Poverty
Over the past few decades, hundreds of millions of people have risen out of poverty to grow into a powerful […]
What Most Americans Don’t Know about Extreme Poverty
766,010,000 people. That’s how many are living in extreme poverty today, defined by the World Bank as having roughly $2/day […]
Greedy Capitalists’ Are the Best at Giving Us What We Want
I’ve made very serious (and hopefully substantive) arguments about why small government and free markets are the recipe for prosperity. […]
Race Relations Are Improved by Free Markets, Not Collectivist Politics
Politically we seem to be living in trying times. The political polarization, as portrayed in the mainstream news media, appears […]
The Core of Liberty Is Economic Liberty
Since the rise during the late 1800s of socialism, New Liberalism, and Progressivism it has been conventional to scorn economic […]
Jamie Dimon Fears His Job Is Obsolete
Nothing about Jamie Dimon’s anti-Bitcoin explosion (“Bitcoin is a fraud”) made sense. The timing was weird. After all, Bitcoin has […]
Free Enterprise Is the World’s Only Successful Strategy for Reducing Poverty
In prior years, I’ve shared some videos with powerful messages with a common message. Grinding poverty used to be the […]
Equifax Hackers Demand Ransom in Bitcoin
There’s a new wrinkle in the story of one of the largest data breaches in history. The hack of Equifax […]
Professor Horwitz Explains Price Gouging In the Midst of the Storm
It takes guts to go on CNN and explain economic truth – for humanitarian reasons – in the midst of […]
Flood Subsidies Helped Harvey Do More Harm
Hurricane Harvey, which battered Texas over the past week, offers the clearest lesson why Congress should not perpetuate the federal […]
A Different Side of Mises
The writing temperament of Ludwig von Mises was precise, formal, and brilliant. Especially concerning economic theory, all the steps of […]
When Economists Are Enemies of Economic Growth
The great investor and writer Andy Kessler frequently points out that the failure rate among Silicon Valley start-ups is 90 […]