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Many critics of Bitcoin consider the fact that Bitcoin is a speculative asset as sufficient reason to dismiss it.But all entrepreneurial initiatives are speculative at the start.

The FDA should put its dog dietetics on the short leash and focus on the issues it was designed to address.

What if we're pursuing happiness the wrong way? Aurelius reminds us to “[r]emember that very little is needed to make a happy life.”

The first step in taking charge of your learning and livelihood is to shed these schooled myths and become adept at self-education.

Read’s essay is no brief for anarchy. “I, Pencil” is aplea for humility among economic central planners that is desperately needed by the utopian thinkers of our day, and every era.

It turns out that even experts sometimes lie to the public—and it’s not always in a way that’s sinister.

Politics is impossibly complicated, and a distraction from the ongoing task of being successful in life. It’s also intentionally addictive.

The Golden Rule Can Still Teach Us an Awful Lot

The minimum wage was not the only factor Restaurants Unlimited blamed for their impending bankruptcy. The company also cited a pair of soft restaurant openings and a decline in casual dining.

Some in Congress want to wrest control of trade policy back from the president. It might surprise you to learn that lawmakers ever had it.

For much of the rest of the world, liberalism remains alive and well. Let’s keep it that way.

Harvesting Psyche would not cause an economic collapse. If that much gold could cheaply be brought to market it would be a boon, not a bust.

Ross Perot demonstrated that it’s extremely difficult to run an even modestly successful presidential campaign outside the two major parties unless you are both a billionaire and a celebrity.

Libra could lead the way to easier payments, remittances, and even credit options for millions in developing countries around the world.

Populism feeds on myths about living standards that simply don't stand up to scrutiny.

The Stoics advised that you can do your “duty” without anger. There is no such thing as healthy anger, taught Seneca.

Research into the bystander effect began in earnest after the brutal rape and murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964.

Steven Pinker is one of the world’s most influential public intellectuals and a psychology professor at Harvard. He's also something dangerous: a free thinker.

As baby boomers prepare to exit the workforce over the coming years, it will be incumbent on Generations X and Y to listen to and work collaboratively with Gen Z.

Voluntary reparations should be supported by everyone regardless of their opinions about involuntary reparations.

Bill Gates has said that when it comes to understanding energy realities “we need to bring math to the problem.” He's right.

The late scholar Gerrit H. Wormhoudt's book "Opting Out" says Americans must choose alternatives to government-managed schools for their children.

In reality, supporters of integration broadly opposed busing because of its downsides.

If history is any guide to action, we would still be far better off in a world of imperfect self-regulation.

Why hasn’t Nigeria, the region’s biggest economy, signed the trade agreement?

A higher minimum wage is sold as a way to help millions out of poverty. The reality is that it only benefits a small minority to the cost of everyone else.

As of July 2, “Avengers: Endgame” had collected US$2.77 billion in worldwide ticket sales, $22 million shy of James Cameron’s 2009 film “Avatar.”

What learnings can we derive from the British and American experience with the income tax?

Rightly done, the festivities of the 4th of July are part of a modern ritual to remind ourselves and our children of the forward-looking hope and aspiration for freedom and justice that is woven into America’s DNA.

Recall those who embraced the rhetoric of liberty and continued to plant the seeds for prosperity and the document which inspired it, on this July Fourth.

In what is considered one of the greatest abolitionist speeches, Frederick Douglass presented “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” to the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in New York on July 5, 1852.

Thomas Jefferson wasn’t perfect. And neither are his critics.

The heroes of that brief moment in time who tried to make central Italy a somewhat freer place should be remembered for all time.

We are learning that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are not enough to maintain liberty.

Student debt cancellation redistributes wealth upward and changes people's incentives for the worse.

Social Security will become insolvent in just 16 years. Who says so? The people who run the Social Security Administration.

It is one thing to pick up a book and read it and a different thing to actually understand it.

Even modest improvements in growth lead to meaningful income gains over time.

The current societal obsession with college degrees frequently creates barriers to entry and heavy negative trade-offs.

Government regulations are the real threat here, not social media companies’ policies.

To find their way, schooled young people need to rebuild their rudders and develop their own “why."

No matter what your boss or HR says, it is up to you to build your toolkit.

Independence Day is an excellent time to carefully consider Frédéric Bastiat’s 1848 essay, “Government,” one of the most insightful critiques ever given for understanding the problems that beset governance.

Nationalism creates an inherent quagmire by trying to convert other cultures to that of the state and sanctioning hostilities between various groups.

South Korea’s pro-capitalists are primarily critical of what they see as a departure from capitalist principles.

However noble-sounding promises of more for you at others’ expense can be made to sound by way of sins of omission, they violate America’s core values.

Before you cheer for politicians promising medical breakthroughs, realize their actions may prevent the discovery of cancer cures.

Unrealistic, punitive child support orders and related collection laws drive parents and families deeper into poverty.

A major 2019 Canadian study found that alcohol was too cheap, its purchase was too convenient, and governments did not do enough to discourage its sale and consumption.

If we consider economics to be an objective science, its rules should also have universal significance and use, despite differences in societal order.