from FEE

History has shown that experts aren’t often much better than the average person when it comes to forecasting the future.

Pittsburgh's recovery is an inspirational economic success story that others should look to imitate.

All forms of government intervention within a market economy are forms of government planning.

The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced, is to force someone else to produce it for him.

No one can accurately predict where AI will take us or what we can learn from it, so trying is, at best, pointless.

Regulations force businesses to spend money that could have otherwise been spent elsewhere in the economy.

We pour corn andStar Warsmovies into the global economy, and the rest of the world gives us steel, aluminum, and all the other things we might want.

Sectors dominated by rent-seekers are giving a bad name to markets in general.

Only the individual is responsible for their consumption of information.

It’s worth our time to reflect on the life and words of this great man born 200 years ago this year.

Seventeen years of sacrificing young people to a counter-productive effort is far too long.

If we had more free trade and less protectionism, farmers wouldn’t need this “emergency-aid.”

The need to keep human and animal waste away from human contact may seem obvious today, but for millennia that was not the case.

Why aren’t politicians working to fix this? Self-preservation.

The idea of consumer protection remains important for governments because consumers have been taught to perceive themselves as victims.

To curry favor with Nevada legislators, he offered them confidential and convincing financial advice.

I think misguided monetary policyusually deserves blamefor short-run economic instability.

The era of employee cafeterias may soon be coming to an end thanks to two San Francisco city officials.

This scene in which Biggs urges Luke to fight to defend the free market did not make it into the final film.

While no one would deny the importance of helping those in need, it’s important to tackle the idea that it is only the state that is capable of providing social welfare.

The data are clear: increases in the US trade deficit is strongly correlated with increases in US employment numbers.

The history of Rome is a case study in just how much power can corrupt a person, and Caligula is likely the case in point.

Neither Obamacare fans nor single-payer pushers seem to have any clue about how insurance is supposed to work.

Sidewalks and side streets are becoming more relevant in modern urban environments as cities become pedestrian-friendly.

When a government undertakes policies to expand the volume of exports, it cannot help but to expand the volume of imports as well.

Medical tourism may very well be how to save health care from stifling regulation.

“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.” - Milton Friedman

It makes no more sense to inflict “Buy American” protectionism on yourself than it does to endorse it when it’s imposed on you by law.

Don Boudreaux's recommended reading list for demystifying free trade.

Some argue that the big-government welfare state is to thank for the reduction in global extreme poverty levels, but they're just plain wrong.

The new restrictions on plastic straws are, at best, useless, but they have proven to be a political comedy gold mine.

Were Trump a master trade negotiator, logic dictates that he would skip any trade talks and immediately work with Congress to zero out all tariffs on foreign goods.

An internship doesn't have to mean a sentence of three-to-six months of uselessness and gophering. Here's how to make yourself indispensable.

Without Woods, golf wouldn’t be nearly as lucrative for everyone involved in the sport.

Plastic straws are not the pressing threat that environmentalists and celebrities seem to think they are.

The way toward social improvement is not through forcing what one sees as improvements on others, but through self-improvement.

Happy birthday today to a memorable Brit, the great Joseph Paxton!

Jobs and investment both decline when companies can’t protect their income from government.

I love businesses becausethey treat me the way I like to be treated.

In just four short decades, we've gone from HIV/AIDS as an untreatable pandemic to being on the cusp of a vaccine or even cure.

When a friend's overdose brought the opioid crisis home for coder Mike LeGrand, he and his students created an app to do what government couldn't.

Magatte Wade, a Senegalese entrepreneur, explores the question of why some countries are prosperous and some are not.

And guess what happens when supply is constrained and demand keeps climbing?

Platforms are changing the way we live, work, and get about.

Greece's sky-high tax burden encourages dodging and evasion, making the government's spending problem even worse.

Socialism has turned the once-prosperous nation of Venezuela into poverty-ridden hellscape.

The switch to green energy is proving so difficult in part becauserenewable energy is difficult to scale up.

Implementing tariffs for the stated goal of eliminating tariffs is just plain nonsense.

All laws are ultimately enforced under the threat or outright use of violence.

Some supporters are quick to say that Trump's tax cuts have been an unmitigated success, but tax rates aren't the only thing to have changed.