from FEE

No money source in the world has enough money to cover the US government's budget deficits. Now what?

At the G7 meeting in Canada, President Trump called for a tariff-free, subsidy-free G7 area, and that's a pretty good idea.

Libertarians can now rest easy knowing that the next time we are accosted with the infamous question about roads, we can look to Domino’s as a beacon of free-market innovation of a public good.

As with most things, to really have an impact, you need to create exceptional value for someone.

If we forswore military intervention in other countries, we could still affect the world in a positive way through free trade.

Progress? What's that?

Ludwig von Mises boiled down capitalism to the essential features that he believed every citizen needed to know.

James Walpole gives an attendee's-eye-view of a single day of FEEcon 2018.

A world of capitalism is a world of peaceful, voluntary, mutually agreed upon interactions where no person or group is politically privileged over another.

“Those who cannotrememberthepastare condemned to repeat it.”

“Those who cannotrememberthepastare condemned to repeat it.”

Tariffs make Americans poorer, not richer.

Extracting concepts and lessons from a classic educational comic.

Despite ample evidence, people still seem to believe in the unicorn of the omniscient, omnipotent, benevolent government.

Because the state of California suffers from skewed priorities and mismanagement, its citizens are being forced to ration water.

The book is an extended lesson in what happens when we focus only on what we see.

The world is getting richer, and as the economic historian Deirdre McCloskey has pointed out, the world is getting better.

That dream may have stalled, but today’s engineers want to revive it.

Instead of letting the poor die from preventable illness; let them cross the border.

When it comes to economic booms and busts, not to mention currency instability, there is no greater perpetrator than government-controlled central banking.

The motives for trade, any trade, are the same, regardless of where the participants reside.

Smith's characterization of the conceited planner reappears, this time burdening the childcare industry

It is economic development which lifts us all up out of gender inequality.

The answer is a big “no.”

Some European countries have made big changes to their welfare systems that are getting more people back to work.

On any ranking of freedom, Canada will show up higher than Mexico, but when it comes to actually living your life, Mexico is a much freer place.

The wisest course of action in a “trade war” is unilateral disarmament.

A way to free oneself from the traditional banking system sounds appealing, but what is it, actually?

An excerpt from Mises' classic work, 'Human Action'.

The fascinating link between unschooling and entrepreneurship

Inflation, wealth redistribution, and the subtle art of misdirection

The government itselfisinequality.

The fact that Hong Kong is a duty-free marketplace is a major driver of its immense prosperity.

Freedom of expression is one of the most vital but undervalued ingredients for human flourishing.

The May jobs report implies a robust economy, but there's a lot more nuance to the numbers than just the unemployment rate.

Control over money is the State’s back-door key to the storehouse of Society.

These are things one can implement fully and immediately with no permission or agreement from anyone else but are entirely in the control of any individual.

Rejecting values and responsibility leads to a life devoid of purpose.

The defenses of both Roseanne Barr's and Samantha Bee's tasteless statements are not remotely based on principle.

Often, we complain because we are taking things personally.

Land-use restrictions make it “prohibitively expensive” to build new housing in a lot of places.

It is an undeniable fact that debt, whether private or public, must, eventually, be repaid.

“No human wisdom or knowledge could ever be sufficient [for] the duty of superintending the industry of private people..."

While the Court ultimately granted that Masterpiece Cakeshop had been wronged, the majority ruling lacks any real protections for the First Amendment right of freedom of (dis)association.

The passage of a law in D.C. got most of the attention, but in truth, Congress and Trump simply smeared some icing on the cake.

California isn't the only state that's been raising taxes on fuel, and it's unsustainable.

Unschooling is often cartoonishly characterized by critics as a 'Lord of the Flies'environment, where kids run around wildly and chaos ensues.

If there is to be atrade war, it should be a trade war to see who can slash tariff barriers the most.

There was also much job creation underslavery.

School is clearly bad for children’s mental health.