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Banished for debasing the currency from his home city in what is now north-central Turkey, Diogenes of Sinope chose to beg in the streets of Corinth and Athens, live in a clay jar, and eschew wealth of any kind. The story is…

This week I have a question from Heath who frequently writes to me for Ask an Economist. He has a question about a specific policy out of Florida. Heath writes: Recently Florida passed House Bill 637 which requires automobile…

"From the beginning of the pandemic, there has been a persistent government effort to silence and marginalize those who questioned NIH’s policies and conclusions." ~Jon Miltimore

Profits have a bad press. Perhaps second to private property (theft, according to Bakunin) profits are the devil incarnate in the view of our friends on the left. In the star-studded movie “Reds,” the hero, played by Warren…

Why has Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) declared war on credit cards? Americans are in love with paying with plastic. Perhaps too much so — given that credit card debt now exceeds $1 trillion. But paying with plastic has become a…

Why has Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) declared war on credit cards? Americans are in love with paying with plastic. Perhaps too much so — given that credit card debt now exceeds $1 trillion. But paying with plastic has become a…

One of the very, very high points in the history of the gay community, from the libertarian point of view, was their fight against the police in New York City in 1969. This was the Stonewall riots, and the homosexuals and…

On September 13, 1970, the New York Times published an article by Milton Friedman that would become one of the most famous—and controversial—articles in all of economics. The piece was titled, “A Friedman doctrine— The Social…

"Although Fed officials were late to tighten monetary policy, their efforts over the last year appear to have worked. The risk today is that monetary policy is too tight—and will remain so for too long." ~William J. Luther