Economy

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has officially taken Google to court. This trial, initiated under the Trump administration and now being brought to fruition via Biden’s bidding,...

Academic Lies about Free-Market Economists

September 23, 2023

The academic history profession has a problem with intellectual integrity. Over the past decade, a cottage industry has emerged in elite university departments that explicitly aims to...

Dark Matter and the Swimming Pool App

September 22, 2023

On July 24, at the peak of a hot summer, a local news station in North Carolina reported on a new example of the sharing economy. It’s...

A Noted Physician Advocates COVID Civil Disobedience

September 22, 2023

Famously, at the start of his 1849 essay, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience,” Henry David Thoreau observed, “That government is best which governs least.” Few policymakers...

Beware of Mistaking Artifacts for Economic Realities

September 21, 2023

America runs a trade deficit during some period – say, a month – whenever the dollar value of that period’s imports exceeds the dollar value of that...

Truck This: Why I’m Leaving the Long-Haul Industry

September 21, 2023

I’ve been a truck driver for over 20 years. I suppose I always knew I would be, ever since that career day in the third grade when...

Fed Continues to Signal Another Rate Hike

September 21, 2023

The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted to hold its federal funds rate target range at 5.25 to 5.50 percent on Wednesday. However, FOMC members...

Get Ready to Kiss Your Credit Card Rewards Goodbye

September 20, 2023

Once a year, usually late in February, my wife’s face brightens as she thumbs through our mail. “We got our Costco rewards check,” she beams. It’s not...

Thinking Harder about “Special” Benefits

September 20, 2023

America has a vast cornucopia of government welfare and assistance programs. And in most cases, they are publicly justified on the ground that the goods and services...

Orangeopia

September 19, 2023

Pretty much everyone wants a higher standard of living, the question is how do we get there? Some argue that prosperity results from a wasteful and soul-killing...