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Cutting Coal Could Mean Less Power, Bigger Bills
The President of Consumer Action for a Strong Economy (CASE), Matt Kandrach, recently wrote an article regarding the dangers of cutting coal production... Read more
The Top 1% Have 40% of America’s Wealth: Is This a Problem?
Andrew Berryhill A 2017 study found that 66 percent of Democrats view economic inequality as a “very big” problem, and 93 percent believe it to be at l... Read more
The Liberal Snowflake of the Week goes to…
I thought I would share my typical, but nonetheless “eventful” walk home from work last night. Your Liberal Snowflake of the week…Dru... Read more
San Francisco’s Protectionist Attempt to Ban Company Cafeterias
Brittany Hunter Silicon Valley is no stranger to competition. The race to produce cutting-edge tech products that set you apart from the crowd is never... Read more
Political Change Starts with Self-Improvement
Gary M. Galles The Foundation for Economic Education’s founder Leonard Read’s book Accent on the Right (1968) hits the half-century mark this year. And... Read more
3 Nobel Prize-Winning Contributions to Economic Science (From People Who Weren’t Economists)
Luis Pablo De La Horra Since it was introduced in 1968, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences has been awarded to 79 individuals for their cont... Read more
NBA Legend Claims National Anthem Is A Slave Song
The NBA’s all-time leading scorer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was featured in a California newspaper column where he compared the U.S. national anthem to song... Read more
Can you be Christian and support the death penalty?
Mathew Schmalz, College of the Holy Cross Pope Francis has declared the death penalty “inadmissible.” This means that the death penalty should not be u... Read more
The Solution to Poverty Is Opportunity, Not Charity
Brittany Hunter When we fall ill, our bodies give us symptoms to signal to our brains that trouble is afoot. A fever, for example, lets us know that ou... Read more
The Good Intentions Fallacy Is Driving Us Toward the Destructive Outcomes of Socialism
Barry Brownstein While Venezuela continues to collapse into a living hell for all but Nicolás Maduro and ruling elites, support in America for democrat... Read more
How Japan Empowered Patients with Free To Choose Medicine
Edward L. Hudgins The twenty-first century might well see medical innovations that could rid humanity of crippling and deadly illnesses, extending the ... Read more
Socialism, Like Dracula, Rises Again from the Grave
Richard M. Ebeling Many of us grew up watching Dracula movies—Nosferatu, the “Undead.” Fearful of the sunlight that could burn him into cinders, Dracul... Read more
Why California Cities Are Becoming Unlivable
Andrew Berryhill In July, the mayor of San Francisco frankly stated that poverty in the city is so bad, that “there is more feces on the sidewalks than... Read more
Seasteading and Health Care: Islands of Innovation
Brittany Hunter Mention seasteading at a party, and you will likely get the same glassy-eyed stares that the topic of Bitcoin garnered five years ago. ... Read more
Milton Friedman Put Families First
Kerry McDonald Milton Friedman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who popularized school vouchers and education choice, took seriously the idea of “the... Read more
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