The Environmental Costs of Renewable Energy Are Staggering
“The Limits of Clean Energy” is the title of an article by Jason Hickel in Foreign Policy, with the sub-title […]
Economics Lessons for Bernie Sanders
It’s hard to tell at this point if Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign is faltering because his ideas have gone from […]
Zoning Laws Hurt the Poor the Most
On February 14, 2008, a Seattle Times article showed that almost 45 percent of the price of a home was […]
Technology Creates More Jobs Than It Destroys
American presidential candidates Andrew Yang and Bill de Blasio are very concerned about robots taking people’s jobs. Yang has been touting his […]
Drug Warriors Ignore Basic Facts to Push the Vaping Scare
August was not a good month for harm reduction advocates striving to save the lives of millions of smokers. Many […]
The Long-Term Benefits of Corporate Tax Cuts Are Undeniable
Every tax cut in recent decades has been denigrated as a trickle-down fraud (whose family tree also includes “voodoo” and […]
ISAs: The Friedman Solution to the Student Loan Crisis
In 2019, 44.7 million student loan borrowers owed a sum of $1.56 trillion, an average of more than $34,000 per […]
The US Is Burying Young People and the Unborn Under a Mountain of Government Debt
In 2018, the federal government paid $357.3 billion in interest on the nation’s fiscal operating debt—$61 billion more than the […]
5 Surprising Scientific Facts about Earth’s Climate
On the weekend of August 10–11, as if in chorus, major online news websites called on people to stop consuming […]
The Presidency Is Too Powerful
Imagine living in a world where a single individual can issue binding edicts directly controlling the behavior of every firm […]
Thomas Clarkson: The First Abolitionist
Source The brutal and cruel transatlantic slave trade lasted for more than 300 hundred years. In 1785, Thomas Clarkson, a […]
The Economic Discussion on Brexit That Isn’t Happening
Millions of words have now been expended arguing the economic case for and against Brexit. It is a sad reflection […]
Why Socialism Is the Failed Idea That Never Dies
Kristian Niemietz, Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies. Institute for Economic Affairs, London 2019, 374 pages. What would you […]
Mass Shootings Are a Horrible Way to Understand Gun Violence
After each mass shooting, there is an outpouring of emotion. Grief. Shock. Sickness. Anger. We saw all of these in […]
What Amazon, Nike, Uber, and Disney Do With Their Money
What do some of the world’s biggest and most recognized corporations do with their money? Is it true that they […]
This Mystery YouTuber Will Teach You More about the Soviet Union Than Your Professors
Your teachers gave you the boring dates and names of long-dead politicians, and all you know about communism is that […]