Ryan Bourne In Empowering the New American Worker, Chris Edwards summarized what economists have learned about occupational licensing laws. These state‐imposed barriers to work reduce employment in...
Forget the other mainstream explanations for interest. Time preference explains this phenomenon and gives a true picture of why interest exists in the first place. Original Article: Time...
Are the chickens coming home to roost for the US Treasury? As Ryan McMaken noted in a recent Mises Wire article, the United States is in a...
The traditionalist author Álvaro d’Ors emphasized in his work that the political thought of Rome was essentially stateless as it had a personalistic character. In contrast, Greek...
Walter Olson Two weeks ago I noted that one principle of fair elections, transparency, can be in tension with another, the secret ballot. The tension plays out in...
Marc Joffe Transit policy analyst Brad Thomas recently ranked US streetcar systems by the number of passengers they carried per hour of service in September 2023. Occupying...
As this author previously has noted, the ideology of statism is responsible for much of the violence that plagues the world. We see this played out in...
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the problems with Joe Manchin’s argument that Congress needs to reject the “extremism” in its ranks if it’s ever going to...
Romina Boccia Members of Congress say they want to be in the driver’s seat on correcting America’s rapidly deteriorating fiscal situation. Recent fiscal commission bills, such as...
Vanessa Brown Calder So‐called junk fees have become a popular topic this year, and rental housing is a particular area of interest as US markets struggle with affordability challenges....