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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

YouTube initiated a ban on commentator Russell Brand on last week that prohibits the celebrity from making money on its platform following accusations of sexual assault against the British comedian. “If a creator’s…

Once a year, usually late in February, my wife’s face brightens as she thumbs through our mail.  “We got our Costco rewards check,” she beams.  It’s not a ton of money, maybe $1,000. And the money is not actually coming from…

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is the permanent government bureaucracy responsible for enforcing antitrust laws in the United States. Accordingly, the main role of the FTC is to prevent the formation of monopolies and…

"Inflation is running above 2 percent by any measure, and a current temporarily higher rate on short-term securities can reassure markets that the Federal Reserve is aiming at a lower inflation rate." ~Gerald P. Dwyer

Leonard Read, founder of the Foundation for Economic Education, was totally committed to the proposition that liberty, and the private property that enabled it, is more moral and more productive than any alternative means…