from FEE

The Bureau of Labor Statistics expects the teen labor force participation rate to drop below twenty-seven percent in 2024.

There are consequences for declining male participation in the work force.

Is speech designed to silence others still technically ‘free’?

It's basically pointless and the inconvenience is not costless.

The market is the best system for storing reserves and easing supply shocks.

It's essentially no different from investing in the stock market.

Work is one way through which we learn to create value for others.

Ms. Biden's remedy seems much more just, efficient, and tax-friendly than what's preached.

Every one of Marx’s “predictions” has failed to come true.

You don't stimulate growth by increasing the burden of government spending.

It's deeply dangerous to wealth creation - and the whole of society - to unleash the green-eyed monster

Let's take a look at the difference between being PC and being polite.

How can maternal mortality be increasing in one of the wealthiest and most technologically advanced countries in the world?

I’ve just begun to re-read Ayn Rand’s 1,200 page behemoth Atlas Shrugged.

Reminder: the OECD’s statist agenda is financed by your tax dollars.

Pittsburghers should genuflect before all things Uber.

Apprenticeships connect young people with practical adult-world experiences.

What the congressional baseball shooting says about our political society.

Some of the most memorable examples of Reed’s real heroes are taken from antiquity, with Cicero, Cato the Younger, and Augustine being first introduced by Reed.

A $4 trillion annual budget is about $12,500 for every man, woman, and child in the United States.

At the risk of sounding hyperbolic, I would take a bullet for Taylor Swift without hesitation

Had the violence not been met with force, the results would have been ghastly

Turns out measuring poverty is more complicated than it seems, but fixing it could be easy.

Licensing restricts supply and leads to higher prices and cronyism.

An AMA with FEE's managing editor, covering peaceful parenting and more.

The Collected Works of Leonard E. Read

Herbert Spencer's libertarian theory of education.

Netflix is the squid to Amazon's – and Hollywood's – whale.

Europeans deserve the right to protect themselves.

Alemanno is pushing the image of the defenseless consumer, subjugated by large companies into buying things he or she has no use for.

The economy demands creativity; the school system demands conformity.

For one thing, we live in an ever-growing “anti-terror” surveillance state.

Government cannot create any wealth. That must come from the private sector.

Oh sure, I remember window-cleaning hell all too well, and so do you.

There is an unfortunate generalization when it comes to public opinion toward the incarcerated population of this country.

We have 42% more things we desire, all in exchange for the same 194 billion hours of work. That's not a bad thing at all.

The supply of fresh water depends on the supply of cheap energy.

“...in a democracy, the delusion that would elsewhere be poured into the ears of the prince is poured into those of the people.”

One can always change insurance policies. But there is no way to get away from government.

This quotation is translated from Bastiat’s “The People and the Bourgeoise.”

It all comes down to this: We all need to learn to love what we do.

Here are five easy hacks to fight back against those who want to tell us how to live our lives.

"It's the idea that, instead of dying for something, why not live for something?"

The future is basically here, all it takes is data – lots of data.

Technology is protecting artists and inconveniencing forgers.

Applied in the right place, small actions can have cataclysmic effects.

A baseball team, even one as tradition-laden as the Dodgers, wasn't going to transform Los Angeles, or any other city.

Employment is supposed to benefit both parties. When it doesn't, something has to change.

The FBI’s independence is an establishment tradition not a law.

We've seen the benefits of the internet on our electronics, but it's true for everything else too. Yes, everything.