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Redistribution makes a mockery of the concept of equality, merely facilitating a leisure class that lives at the expense of laborers.

A new study concludes that real wages grew more than the reported 0.1%.

The program is said to have led to the forced sterilization of over 200,000 women in the late 1990s.

It's important to have a healthy skeptic's attitude.

We are witnessing in our day nothing less than the liberation of millions of Brazilian minds.

It's possible for students to disagree and still have good discussions of economic policy.

Relinquish your inner-NPC and realize you have the power to choose how you respond to events.

Unfortunately, the schools we could once rely upon to do best by their students are now putting politics over prowess and race over results.

As young people take on more and more debt to get a degree that is becoming more and more useless, perhaps it's time to revisit the tried and true process of the apprenticeship.

This all looks like a repeat of Obama-era reforms that led to a budget blowout.

For people who believe in limited government, the solution represents a substantially larger problem because political history suggests that the government will build an even more intrusive solution.

President Trump refers to the Fed as his "biggest threat," but takes credit for economic growth associated with the recent financial bubble.

This outcome is not a surprise.

While most famous for his History of England, nowhere did Lord Macaulay rebut the idea of domineering government more effectively than in his 1830 “Southey’s Colloquies on Society.”

Economics: it’s the study ofhuman action and its unintended consequences.

This top score is mostly due to our market efficiency and innovation environment.

One need only look to the quality and variety of off-the-shelf costumes to see how far the global economy has come.

The idea that making fun of accents is a kind of hate speech might sound absurd to many Americans, but it fits into Europe’s approach to free speech in recent years.

Gun owners must recognize that infringements like the GCA of 1968 must never be tolerated by anyone who believes in the right to self-defense.

If passed, Sanders’s “Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Exist Act” would dissolve the nation’s largest banks, forcing those with total assets that exceed three percent of gross domestic product to restructure and downsize within two years.

Like all issues, the problem of migrations can be approached in a collectivist-authoritarian or individualist-libertarian way.

The Magnolia State is the “perfect home” for business and investment for myriad reasons.

The Constitution established a system of government made up not only of the three federal branches but also one in which a tripartite balance of powers and authority between the federal government, the states, and the people.

The production of plenty means the average person rises, the less fortunate are not so bad off, and the vulnerable at society’s margins survive.

It's easier than ever to share our opinions, but can we act on them, too?

Global trade has dramatically changed the lives of poor people all over the world for the better, particularly in China. Our policies should be mindful not to crush their hard work and achievements.

They lived in ancient Rome and knew its traditions and shortcomings first-hand.

As long as we have taxes and imperfect competition, we have pragmatic reasons to show business some love.

Learn from these economic theories applied to modern romance to be a better person.

The UN’s pessimism doesn’t jibe with these economic models.

Economists James Gwartney and Thomas McCaleb talk about four disincentive mechanisms: the higher real benefit effect, the high implicit tax effect, the skill-depreciation effect, and the moral hazard effect.

The progressive obsession with the lack of women in STEM fields completely misses the point of female empowerment.

Compared to the size of the economy, today’s federal debt is, by far,the highestin our peacetime history.

We can only acquire so many lessons in school, and working creates other opportunities to learn.

What can America's most famous chocolate company and its most powerful shareholder teach us about mergers and politics?

Value, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.

The bottom line is that easy money—sooner or later—backfires.

In these divisive times, we’d all be wise to remember that a general, society-wide state of dissatisfaction at the “current state of affairs” is strong evidence of a free society.

You don’t need to be a libertarian to realize this is a problem.

The Drug War is responsible for a cycle that creates more violence and higher profits for drug dealers.

Get with the times, think for yourself, and realize: you don’t have to go to college to be successful.

As we eulogize this beacon of American capitalism, we should also celebrate one of its lesser-known achievements: using markets to combat Jim Crow laws.

For the UK and the US to do this together, to lead the world in a revolution of free trade once again, would be a game changer. The prize is simple: open markets across the world.

There’s a real lesson to be learned here, but it’s questionable that elected officials know what it is.

His prolific contributions to Russian literature earned him a Nobel Prize, while his bravery on behalf of freedom gained him the gratitude of oppressed peoples everywhere.

Comparing countries is never exactly apples-to-apples, but here some notable differences between the US and elsewhere.

While Marxism has largely disappeared from theworkers'movement, Marxist theory flourishes today in cultural institutions, in the academic world, and in the mass media.

Businesses live and die by the hand of the consumer in a free market society, and so goes the life of Sears, one of the giants of American retail.

Many are claiming that this time will be different than the last. This should concern just about everyone.

America’s long-run fiscal challenge is entirely the result of a rising burden of government spending.