Economics
Why Youth Social Media Bans Are a Bad Idea
A teenage boy is scrolling through his Instagram account one night. He notices that a friend has…
Let’s Cut the Budget Nonsense
"The Biden administration’s goal seems to be to spend lots of money on new unnecessary programs…
Signs of Hope
"The happy reality that entrepreneurship and bourgeois commerce continue to flourish was driven…
How Public Opinion and Political Interests Dictated…
In Britain, The Telegraph and journalist Isabel Oakeshott obtained some 100,000 Whatsapp messages…
Why Politicians Use Force Rather than Markets
This week I have a question from Sergio from Brazil. He says (edited for clarity), I enjoy reading…
Politics, Not Markets, Makes Banking Unstable
"Banking reform should rank high on our list of policy priorities, but moving away from…
Lessons from the Phillips Curve
"The exploration of the Phillips Curve has taken many different paths and yet somehow ended up…
Mary Seacole: The British-Jamaican Nurse Who Served…
“Do-gooder” is rarely a term of endearment. A prominent dictionary defines one as “an earnest but…
Why Progressive Taxes Are Especially Harmful to…
"'Progressive' taxes impose a particularly strong disincentive for more productive…
How Does a Region Rust Away?
"Where people cannot get jobs or find homes, they pick up and leave. Where they find homes and…
