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What the Wall Street Journal Headline about the Economic Implications of ‘Women Rejoining the Workforce’ Gets Wrong—and Right
According to a headline blaring on the front page of one of America’s leading newspapers, “Women Rejoin the Workforce, Adding Strength to Economy.” This is wrong in more ways than you can shake a stick at. Strangely enough,…
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 posted a distressing message indicating depression and suicidal thoughts. The boy tries to reassure his friend through online…
Let’s Cut the Budget Nonsense
"The Biden administration’s goal seems to be to spend lots of money on new unnecessary programs or failing existing programs, and to pay for it with yet more debt and with novel taxes likely to fall more heavily on…
Signs of Hope
"The happy reality that entrepreneurship and bourgeois commerce continue to flourish was driven home to me by my rather unremarkable remodeling project. I have reason for optimism." ~ Donald J. Boudreaux
How Public Opinion and Political Interests Dictated Covid Policy
In Britain, The Telegraph and journalist Isabel Oakeshott obtained some 100,000 Whatsapp messages exposing the then Secretary of Health Matt Hancock and other government ministers during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.…
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 the articles from FEE. I live in Brazil, a socialist country with de facto tyranny where individual rights are not respected.…
Politics, Not Markets, Makes Banking Unstable
"Banking reform should rank high on our list of policy priorities, but moving away from fractional reserves shouldn’t be a part of the conversation." ~ Alexander William Salter
Lessons from the Phillips Curve
"The exploration of the Phillips Curve has taken many different paths and yet somehow ended up in the same place. The world could have been spared much of this meandering with a more firm grounding in what theory does…
Mary Seacole: The British-Jamaican Nurse Who Served Thousands of British Troops During the Crimean War—on Her Own Dime
“Do-gooder” is rarely a term of endearment. A prominent dictionary defines one as “an earnest but often naive humanitarian or reformer.” Another dictionary defines what do-gooders do as “focusing on humanitarian causes in a…
Why Progressive Taxes Are Especially Harmful to Productivity and Harm the Poor
"'Progressive' taxes impose a particularly strong disincentive for more productive work. Depriving the economy of greater productivity curtails the alleviation of poverty, and as a result disproportionately…
