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Free markets improve productivity and increase prosperity.

California is hardly the first state to realize that transitioning to renewable energy is easier said than done.

The last thing we should be doing in the face of record-breaking inflation is giving the government more authority over the market.

The price of American Independence was steep, but one Dr. Joseph Warren believed was worth paying.

Signaling allows for the sorting of transactors without employing courts or any form of law enforcement.

“The framers believed that a republic—a thing of the people—would be more likely to enact just laws than a regime administered by a ruling class of largely unaccountable ‘ministers.’”

We have less freedom to celebrate and thus fewer goods and services to celebrate with.

Student loan forgiveness is already here. And it’s already helping the rich at the expense of the poor.

Banning TikTok would defeat the purpose of national security.

The education disruption over the past two years has re-energized parents and taxpayers alike.

Unlike most, Beavis and Butt-head are not offended or ashamed when they are told they have "white privilege." They are excited—but things quickly go awry.

Pushing for gun control ignores the root causes of gun violence.

Proponents of tariffs often say “free trade” is impossible because other countries would never agree to it, but that view misses the point.

In total, more than 100 millionhave been killed under communist regimes in the past 100 years.

People who suffer from mental illness are far likelier to be victims of gun violence than perpetrators of it.

Unsurprisingly, the move was first proposed by the board’s Enhancing Equity Task Force.

Even though Friedman home-unschooled his own children, he believes "unschooling schools" are preferable.

This is a big win for liberty.

The CNN Index invites a simple question. “What emotion is driving the market now?”

"Don’t Tell Me I Can’t" by Kevin Cooper (aka Cole Summers) deserves a place in the alternative education canon.

Poorer markets can still clear. So why won't they?

President Biden isn't entirely to blame, but his anti-market policies have contributed to the problem.

As fuel prices rise, so too does the cost of goods and services.

In the end Dr. Fauci was no more successful in avoiding the virus than Prince Prospero, the villain from Poe's imagination who believed his castle could protect him from the plague.

President Biden could learn a lot from “the Great Deregulator.”

And they are the ones who made it so.

More young people are recognizing that the conveyor belt to college, and the debt they assume along the way, may not be the best option.

The time bomb on our national debt will start counting down even faster.

The longer the Fed postpones it, the worse it will be.

Companies haven’t jacked up prices to even fully match the increase in their costs, let alone exceed them.

Francis Fukuyama is a respected political scientist, but his ambitious new book "Liberalism and its Discontents" suffers from a few notable flaws.

Why are restaurants adding "inflation fees" to their checks?

Burdening food aid budgets with cargo preference to support the U.S. commercial fleet is ineffective, inefficient, and morally dubious.

People are more generous when they’re more prosperous, which means abolishing antiquated tax schemes is a better way to boost volunteerism.

Playing with free trade and movement Trade improved my productivity by 266x over Swampletics.

There is no ethical or moral reason why somebody should work tirelessly to support a bunch of bureaucrats, and the 1998 Pixar hit seems to grasp this.

An immigrant herself, Luma Mufleh decided to take action by creating the first American school designed specifically for the distinct needs of refugee and immigrant children.

The new rule is pretty egregious, but the owner makes one good point.

Where are all the child prodigies in economics?

Here’s hoping policymakers in Washington heed these warnings.

Shrinkflation is getting real.

Muslim scholar Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) understood economics and human incentives in a way many modern-day politicians do not.

On-time arrivals are down, baggage is being mishandled, and complaints are through the roof.

Food and beverages have been an important source of revenue for cinemas amid falling attendance. But we would miss the true economic point if we focus solely on the direct effects of this shortage.

Chileans voted for socialist candidate Gabriel Boric in last year’s elections and will vote on a new constitution in September 4. Axel Kaiser, holder of the Friedrich Hayek Chair at Adolfo Ibáñez University, discusses the implications.

The move has reignited the debate over the War on Drugs in Canada.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase wrote a paper in 1974 that implicitly predicted the increasing popularity of censorship among the intellectual class.

The Biden administration is finally talking the right game on inflation. But their hesitancy to lift steel tariffs shows they are still more concerned about politics than lowering consumer prices.

Other studies, including two published in 2020, reached similar conclusions.

The simple truth is, there are fewer people who want to bring kids into the world. Though the reasons are diverse, 44 percent of non-parents between 18 to 49 say it is not to or not at all likely they will procreate.