The Cryptoeconomy Is Flowering Before Your Eyes
A statue in front of the Federal Trade Commission shows a horse (the market) being restrained by a man (government). […]
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From Bitcoin to Ether: Today’s Blockchain Basics
Bitcoin and its underlying technology blockchain are game-changing technologies that are reshaping and revolutionizing the world economy. (1) Often hidden […]
The Market Is More Unanimous Than Democracy
The quotation of the day is from page 270 of my late Nobel laureate colleague Jim Buchanan‘s insightful and deep 1984 […]
How Capitalism Makes Us Less Wasteful
It has always bothered me to go to a sporting event or get on a plane and see lots of […]
5 Reasons Marxism Has Nothing to Offer Millennials
For millennials looking to shake off a dull weekend with a good economics or philosophy book, Marxism is one topic […]
Health Costs Are Rising Because of Price Controls
When discussing government involvement in the health sector, I usually focus on the budgetary implications. Which makes sense since I’m […]
Milton Friedman Was Right to Call Them “Government Schools
Today is Milton Friedman’s birthday. He was the 1976 Nobel-prize winning economist who promoted free-market ideals and limited government. The […]
Friedman vs. Sanders: Democratic Socialism Debunked
Socialist rhetoric changes very little over time. It turns out to be rather easy to juxtapose refutations from decades ago […]
Bankers Gone Bad – Full Measure w/ Sharyl Attkisson
Source Full Measure News Twitter @SharylAttkisson Twitter @FullMeasureNews Follow 2VNews on Twitter In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, […]
Only Free Markets Will Liberate Russia
Recently, Russia has been experiencing a positive trend in support of more political freedoms. While this move undoubtedly signals significant […]
Government’s $15 Minimum Wage Advocates Aren’t Paying Their Interns
Almost all of the lawmakers who co-sponsored a bill to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour also […]
Jay-Z: The Great Modern American Capitalist
Jay-Z may have a reputation for his unapologetic support of the Democratic Party and his family’s cozy relationship with the […]
Tax Apologists Don’t Even Believe Their Own Rhetoric
Whenever I debate my left-wing friends on tax policy, they routinely assert that taxes don’t matter. They argue that we […]
Why Experts Get the Gold Standard Wrong
Many mainstream economists, perhaps a majority of those who have an opinion, are opposed to tying a central bank’s hands […]
Blockstack: A New Internet That Brings Privacy & Property Rights to Cyberspace
Meet the developers behind Blockstack, who are using blockchain technology to reconfigure the web. Subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/reasontv […]
To Whom Does This Thing Belong? And How Do We Know?
What’s the single greatest invention in human history? I would argue that the answer is private property. If you understand […]