Mapped: Economic Freedom Around The World
By Tyler Durden How would you define a country’s economic freedom? The cornerstones of economic freedom by most measures are personal choice, voluntary exchange, independence…
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Here’s Why U.S. Supply Chain Problems Will Only Get Worse
By Brandon Smith It is an economic rule which free market philosophers like Adam Smith have tried to explain to governments and monopolists for centuries:…
Stanford Study: More Businesses Have Already Fled California This Year Than in All of 2020
By Brad Polumbo California is in decline. The Golden State lost population in 2020 for the first time in decades, and the exodus included celebrity…
Macroeconomic Data Is a Tool for Government Intervention
By Frank Shostak It is common for commentators and economists to refer to something called the “economy,” which sometimes performs well and at other times poorly….
Black Market Fridays – “Solutions Watch” with James Corbett
By The Corbett Report You’ve heard of Cash Fridays. How about Black Market Fridays? On this edition of #SolutionsWatch, James introduces the idea for setting…
Mortgage Companies Cash in on Pandemic Relief
By Doug French The nation’s billionaires are catching plenty of grief for profiting from the pandemic. All they are guilty of is providing services people…
The Labor Shortage Is a Government-Contrived Scarcity
By Richard M. Ebeling Not long ago, my wife and I decided to go out to our favorite Thai restaurant not far from our home…
Rent Control Is Making a Comeback in US Cities — Even as It Is Proving a Disaster in Europe
By Jon Miltimore Theresa Dolata’s voice broke when she urged Minneapolis city leaders to support amendments that would give council members the authority to regulate…
Historical Lessons in Prosperity vs. Poverty
By Simon Black, Sovereign Man As the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan had a lot to prove. So he set his eyes on the…
Kroger Closes Stores as Consequence of Mandated “Hero Pay” — Golden State Grocers Association Files Lawsuit
By B.N. Frank Businesses may close if they are forced to pay a higher wage than they are able to. Or they may just replace…
Government’s Money Monopoly and the “Great Reset”
By Thorsten Polleit The unbacked paper money system is an economically and socially destructive system—with far-reaching and harmful economic and social consequences beyond what most…
It’s Not Section 230 You Hate, It’s Oligopolies
By Katherine Trendacosta As we continue to hear calls to repeal or change Section 230, it appears that many people have conflated a law that…
New Exposé Shows UK’s COVID Response was Rife with Corruption and Cronyism
By Brad Polumbo The United States government’s COVID-19 policy response has proven rife with waste, fraud, and abuse at every turn. From $10 million for…
As Gov’t Shuts Down Restaurants, Guy Fieri Raises $21.5 Million for Workers “Doing More than Congress”
By Matt Agorist Thanks to hypocritical governor Gavin Newsom’s tyrannical lockdown in the state of California, 1 in every 3 California restaurants will be permanently…