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Ask An Economist—Year in Review
In 2023, FEE supported a series of articles by me titled Ask an Economist. Over the course of the year, I answered 16 questions. In this article, I wanted to highlight a few of the questions and answers I received throughout…
Facui Admits to Multiple COVID-19 Missteps during Closed-Door Hearing
Dr. Anthony Fauci sat down last week with the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic. During a 14-hour session, the former head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases was grilled by…
New Bank Regulations Will Hurt Small Businesses and Middle-Class Borrowers the Most
The rapid succession of bank failures last spring clearly spooked federal regulators at the FDIC, the Federal Reserve Board and bank depositors. The bad decision-making at Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and First…
Will America Choose Javier Milei or Hugo Chavez?
In January 2007, the newly reelected Hugo Chavez sent what the New York Times described as a “chilling message to foreign investors.” “Let it be nationalized,” the Venezuelan president said of CANTV, the country’s largest…
Why Established Brands Often Struggle with Marketing
Unlike startups that are expected to take risks, get messy, and challenge the status quo, larger established firms inherit what could be considered golden handcuffs, given that success can make change a challenge. Indeed,…
Rare Diseases May Be Unprofitable to Treat, but That Doesn’t Mean Government Intervention Will Help
What is an orphan drug? It is one that will address a disease that negatively impacts only a few people. Why is the orphan drug perennially in the news? This is because it can be and is used to constitute a very serious…
Science Has a Major Fraud Problem. Here’s Why Government Funding Is the Likely Culprit
President Biden’s 2024 budget includes over $210 billion directed toward federal research and development, an approximately $9 billion increase from 2023 funding. That might not sound particularly bad—after all, who doesn’t…
Blue States Just Can’t Stop Taxing
The latest Census Bureau data on population changes in America should have been a wake-up call to lawmakers in blue states and cities. The Census data provide even further evidence that "soak the rich" tax policies…
Indians, Property Rights, and Ayn Rand
At Lincoln Hall in Washington, D.C. on January 14, 1879, a remarkable Native American delivered a speech in which he implored, Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose,…
Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Education For the Better—If We Let It
It’s hard to believe that it was only a bit over a year ago that ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI) bot, was introduced to the general public, giving us a taste of the transformative power of AI technologies. Today,…
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