These are times that try some people’s souls, while others in the next state over aren’t being tried at all. Scattered across the nation seemingly at random, a handful of...

Even graduates of government schools know that America’s first major engagement with tyranny involved taxation. Strictly speaking, though, the American Revolution was not a rebellion against high taxes. Imperial taxes...

Reprinted from RealClearMarkets It’s almost a trite assertion so basic is it, but all big businesses start small. Perhaps more important, the small businesses in the U.S. that have grown...

In the rush to allay the public outcry over rising gasoline prices (which have since fallen), President Biden is adopting the standard ploy of politicians who think that the solution...

Economics focuses on how changes in incentives facing self-interested (not necessarily selfish, but desiring command over more resources to advance what they care about) individuals lead them to alter their...

Reprinted from the Independent Institute Actually, it’s a trick question.  Google (excuse me, Alphabet) doesn’t have a monopoly.  Not by any sensible definition of the word. Is Google the only...

Islands represent a tiny portion of the worlds land mass, so, at just 5%, why are they home to a third of the worlds threatened terrestrial species? A zebra out...

In this new post, Benjamin Mueller, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, USA, discusses his recently accepted paper, “Nocturnal...

COMMENT: I thought you were just a Trumper warning what would happen if Biden won. I have come back to your site because I can see inflation approaching 10% as...

Ethically aware and environmentally conscious consumers are making up a larger market segment around the world, and this coincides with increasing wealth. It is the affluent who are able and...