from FEE

Our lives have only gotten better as a result of capitalism and the ability to scale.

When we finally have the full figures, total taxpayer money lost to fraud by the US federal government will likely be bigger than the entire economy of many small countries.

With a stock pricerising 600 percentsince winning the contract, Lockheed Martin shareholders could be forgiven for thinking the F-35 program has been a grand success, despite its dismal results.

While Amelia Earhart certainly deserves to be remembered for her accomplishments, so does Neta Snook.

Steven Chen was able to quit his job at age 33 thanks to six strategic money decisions.

Venezuela’s latest struggle with hyperinflation is unfolding as the United States faces its own inflationary worries.

Read the Senate testimony FEE's Brad Polumbo will give discussing the life-threatening unintended consequences of pandemic lockdown policies.

After months of scathing criticism, US media and politicians are reconsidering Florida’s response to the pandemic.

The damage we’re inflicting on children is too devastating to be waved away in the name of public health—it’s quickly becoming an emergency in its own right.

The Plymouth colonists met what were perhaps the only two English-speaking Indians on the eastern seaboard.

It’s simply naive and ignorant of human nature to expect people—especially the kind of people who become politicians—to dole out trillions of dollars without any hint of favoritism or impropriety.

Target’s decision comes less than a year after Minneapolis suffered some of the worst riots in US history.

Ironically, the government’s response to unemployment has actually prolonged and created it.

The evidence is overwhelming. Rent control laws are destructive.

For the same $6 trillion in expenditure, the government could have given every federal taxpayer a $41,870 check.

Economics is so much more than boring numbers and charts.

The new analysis underlines the perils of imposing one uniform minimum wage on the entire country.

Don’t let presentism sully a great man.

The free market, not the government, is what truly uplifts workers in the long run.

We can learn about economic recovery today by reviewing what happened during the Great Recession earlier this century and what happened at the end of World War II.

The details of Biden’s bloated spending package are so damning that even liberal-leaning fact-checkers have no choice but to agree with conservative criticisms.

A tax expert warned that IRS penalties ‘can destroy a person’s life’ and said many gig economy workers won’t be able to afford this sudden tax crackdown.

Proposed ‘Wall Street’ taxes would hurt the economy, reduce American competitiveness, and harm working families’ investments.

The congresswoman’s US-Denmark comparison is misleading in multiple ways.

They made the case for free-market capitalism by citing the vast rise in economic growth, the standard of living, and the expansion of opportunity it has brought to Americans of all backgrounds.

Here’s how parents can push back on the alarming ideology that’s infecting our children’s classrooms.

Here’s how this unprecedented restriction will backfire.

There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.

As usual, the government looks after itself first.

Almost all the higher labor costs from minimum wage hikes resulted in an equivalent increase in menu prices.

The more appropriate economic explanation is that tech companies have engineered a way to make use of previously-unused resources to create value.

No one—not me, not you, not Jeff Bezos or Warren Buffett—really knows how to spend money.

The congresswoman’s personal rise from adversity to great success is commendable, but her stance on poverty, while holding a grain of truth, is deeply flawed.

America tried the big government route during the pandemic. It didn’t go so well.

A top cryptocurrency expert and economist explains the bitcoin phenomenon.

Families that value liberalism over critical theory should be free to choose different educational options.

Purchasing influence and perks—like 600 hours of paid leave—might sound crass or even seedy, but it's one of the primary purposes of labor unions.

Workers, not ‘Big Business,’ would pay the price under Biden’s policy.

A new report from the Empire Center found a statistically significant increase in deaths in nursing homes that admitted coronavirus-positive residents.

A recent Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that a monetary shock would raise stock prices by 5 percent, raising the annual incomes of white people by as much as 300 percent more than those of blacks.

Here’s the real reason Dolly Parton’s ‘5-to-9’ Squarespace commercial made anti-capitalist critics so angry.

Louis Armstrong's imprint on Jazz, on the Harlem Renaissance, and on the broader musical scene remains immense.

The UK has the third fastest vaccination rate in the world. Within Europe, the UK takes the top spot—and it’s not even close.

Instead of mapping ideologies based on their social beliefs, we should map ideologies based on how much they seek to impose their social beliefs on others.

The only real solution to this corruption is to shrink the government itself—and leave fewer of our resources for unscrupulous politicians to pilfer away.

Wait times in Canada are indeed a problem. But Canadian lawmakers would be wise to emulate the private sector, not co-opt it.

Many have abandoned even the pretense of following George Washington’s guidance.

Economists interviewed by FEE warned that when the dust settles after COVID-19, we'll still have a major problem on our hands.

Moving crude by rail is costly, inefficient, and dangerous compared to oil pipelines. It's also incredibly lucrative.

Bitcoin could very well be the future of money. But its ultimate test still lies ahead.