When political progressives address topics like inflation, taxes, or corporate wrongdoing, they claim to speak for the people. Whether it’s the working
“Milton Friedman’s shareholder doctrine is dead.” Such was the headline of a 2020 Fortune magazine article critiquing Friedman’s famous New York Times opinion piece which, fifty years earlier, had
Reprinted from the Cato Institute Swiss Medtech, a trade association representing the medical technology industry, issued a press release on November 28 praising the Swiss Parliament
On Nov. 17, US District Judge Mark Walker struck down Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ signature Stop WOKE Act, which bars Florida’s higher
Total nonfarm payrolls posted a 263,000 gain in November versus a 284,000 rise in October (revised up by 23,000), while September had
The latest inflation report reveals that inflation is slowing, but it remains at a 40-year high. The stock market rose, as softer-than-expected inflation
The US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is a colossal institutional failure. Since its founding in 1973, the DEA has intercepted a fraction
Reprinted from the Future of Freedom Foundation Like the long line of school children who mindlessly marched into Pink Floyd’s meat grinder in The
The Institute for Supply Management’s Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index fell to 49.0 percent in November, the first reading below neutral and lowest
One of my favorite teaching lessons in economics is the division of labor. It’s one of those ideas that reminds me of
In 2016, I described what Congress could have done with the then-astronomical $1.5 billion Powerball winnings. With the recent $2.04 billion Powerball
Initial claims for regular state unemployment insurance fell by 16,000 for the week ending November 26th, coming in at 225,000. The previous
Reprinted from the Independent Institute The US is still in a state of emergency for Covid-19 and monkeypox. However, the country has another
The latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the total number of job openings in
