from FEE

Just ask Greece how well continually raising taxes and spending works.

We've gone from "No Irish need apply" to dyeing the Chicago river green every St. Patrick's Day.

Online agencies like Uber and Airbnb open up opportunities for services once only available to the rich.

Requiring equal gender representation in any field necessarily means removing some level of personal choice.

Heath care doesn't have to be this way.

Big leaps of personal and social progress occur from chasing ends, not conforming to means.

The seeds of authoritarianism grow best in lonely soil.

We could use a president like Grover Cleveland again.

It's time for Mississippi to release its stranglehold on the alcohol industry.

President Donald Trump’s new attempt at putting America first is going to hurt the economy.

Hollywood, once again, reveals its hypocrisy when it comes to both guns and female empowerment.

It now takes 85 percent fewer man-hours to produce a ton of steel than it did in 1980.

The evidence that this is even a problem is questionable at best.

Let's define our terms.

Turns out, protectionists don't particularly care about consumers, only producers.

If you want "them" to stay "there," help make "there" worth staying in.

The negative impact of mass schooling affects a staggeringly large number of students.

Look for outcomes over opinions, and market accountability over stagnant status.

The vast majority of things deemed "public goods" and thus must be provided by government simply, well, aren't.

Muso was convinced that a small group of people could change a whole country for good.

It's not about the number of jobs. It's about what those jobs are for.

The best way of preventing a trade war is to choose peace.

Good stories are tools.

Are we really going to include peddling weed on the list of capital crimes?

Forcing an equality of outcome for disadvantaged groups requires enormous outside interference.

How many people might be saved if they had the means to protect themselves with a firearm?

People have been complaining about violence in entertainment for literally centuries.

Things are improving, and they have been for a while.

Socialism is not, and never has been, a friend to female empowerment.

By lowering barriers to market entry for generic drugs, all drug prices go down.

We would do well to remember his words.

It’s not just libertarians and conservatives who recognize that there is a problem.

We don't have to guess what will happen; we already know.

Government regulations have driven many people out of their checking accounts, but maybe innovative solutions can help.

Measures that intuitively sound sensible might turn out to produce unintended consequences.

Capitalism has done so much to liberate women.

The vast majority of the Soviet Union's technology came from Western capitalist sources.

The government seizing private property never ends well.

Luck certainly matters—depending on how you define luck.

I'd say that capitalism is at least ok, while socialism is hell on earth.

A major bear market accompanied by high unemployment, authoritarianism, and populism is a combustible mixture.

The internet may be beginning to deliver on its potential to radically change human interactions in all spheres of life.

Millennials are suffering from a distinct lack of economic education, and it shows in their opinion polling.

Only in a free-market system can we truly achieve individual liberty and human flourishing.

When you are feeling dissatisfiedwith your work and life, it is valuable to step back and think about where you are on your hero’s journey.

How do you choose to communicate with others? So many choices exist nowadays, and choosing the "right" one can be quite the challenge.

Simon was right then, and he continues to be right today.

Sure, it causes somereconfiguring of the American economy, but that has made us incredibly wealthy.

Markov vociferously opposed communism at the cost of his life.

Blaming cryptocurrencies for how they're used just doesn't make any sense.