from FEE

The freedom to be self-employed, regardless of starting wages, can overwhelm the benefits of a typical employment arrangement.

How do we overcome our need to make our story cohere with our preexisting biases?

Chronic absence is a ubiquitous problem in America's public education system.

Tariffs hurt oureconomy by reducing consumptionand shrinking available capital for entrepreneurs, startups, and homebuyers.

The only radical action taken by Chad Elwartowski and Supranee Thepdet was their decision to live together in such a small space at the edge of the ocean.

Hayek argued that we should embrace the idea of a society based on the liberty of its members to find fulfillment in their lives by themselves.

The powers of good policy are increasing employment and wages and decreasing wage inequality.

In his excellent new book "Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies," Kristian Niemietz describes the cycle of socialism.

The manikin of socialism was identical for the Nazis and Soviets.

With America in the midst of a slow-motioneconomic collapse, we will give storage advice. Those who own the yellow metal… should bury it six feet deeper.

The invention of a class of new, digital, uncensorable, trustful institutional technologies opens up enormous opportunities for decentralized economic development.

Peter Buttigieg's individual accomplishments are quite impressive. So why are they so little discussed?

If Thanos of 'Infinity War' is a kind of cosmic Paul Ehrlich, then the Thanos of 'Endgame' is a kind of cosmic Stalin.

There exists tangible and straightforward policy initiatives that can decrease the disparity of wealth that exists along racial lines.

In a new Reason video, John Stossel tackled the issue of income inequality.

Who knows, maybe in the next ten years we’ll see drones delivering pizzas to people’s front doors or even someday providing quick transportation!

From society’s perspective, then, Social Security acts as reverse insurance, leaving less for the future.

All of this talk about free college and student loan forgiveness should lead us to wonder why college costs and debt are rising in the first place.

How can firms motivate top sales performers without promoting them to positions for which they may not be suitable?

What is at stake here is freedom, liberty, and a basic immunity from government discrimination.

While there have been many "successful" UBI trials, few have been tested at over $12,000 per year.

In present-day Venezuela, ironically a country that boasts the most abundant oil reserves in the world, the consequences of socialist policies have become all too apparent.

The necessity of mutual gains to sellersand buyers is a simple, powerful proposition that escapes guilt-trippers’ thought processes.

The show acts almost as a thought experiment for what happens when imperfect human beings vie for control in a power vacuum and subsequently attain their goal.

Billionaires aren't quite as rich as we think they are.

There are many alternatives to the Green New Deal, which is neither green, nor new, nor much of a deal.

It seems unlikely that their new argument about AI-induced mass unemployment will turn out to be the silver bullet they are hoping for.

The legislation would destroy large swaths of the country’s consumer credit market, especially for those living on the financial fringe.

The elimination of monetary incentives can hardly have anything but a material detrimental effect on the quality of education provided in the US.

Eating insects rather than beef or porkreduces greenhouse gas emissionsand pollution.

Self-service often means better service.

The Sanders campaign is currently advertising nearly two dozen job positions on the campaign website.

Stung by Trump’s trade wars, Wisconsin’s milk farmers face extinction.

Today, mainstream economists hold the notion that inflation is an increase in the price of goods or services. The issue with this definition is that it fails to get to the cause of the increase.

Warren is so eager to jail businessmen that she wants to do so even if no crime was committed at all.

There is much firmer ground upon which to build than an imaginary social contract to which no one was ever a signatory.

Overbearing government regulations have unintended consequences, in politics and economics.

The reason this proposal would end in an accumulation of demands through public pressure is best explained by Yang himself.

Governmentcrackdowns take a heavy toll on their citizens, both economically and in terms of human rights, without offering them any additional protection or safety.

Separating reward from effort kills the initiative to work.

Americans’ trust in the federal government’s ability to solve problems is at its lowest point in decades.

If a country created more money than its economy could possibly justify, its money would mean nothing!

By every major benchmark, today is the best time in history, thanks to the triumph of free peoples, free minds and free markets.

This law has little to do with patient safety and everything to do with protectionism.

A few reflections on my time with FEE and the legacy left behind.

You either contribute to the polarization or you reduce it.

The difference is that the bullet train is still going—well, not the train itself, but the taxpayer spending on the planning—despite some optimism earlier this year that Gov. Gavin Newsom was going toput the project out of its misery.

There are many reasons to oppose raising the minimum wage, but that doesn’t mean every criticism of the minimum wage is valid.

Under current law, after the OASI trust fund is fully depleted, Social Security will revert back to its original pay-as-you-go system.

Whatever people think about firearms, important legal and constitutional issues deserve to be debated in their own right.