Economy

One thing I teach my students in business ethics is that the focus of a business should not be on making money, but…

Reprinted from EconLib Many cities across the nation are facing a fiscal crisis. While pandemic-related problems that were self-induced or otherwise play a…

Earlier this year, Shawnee, Kansas, banned “co-living,” meaning “renting to four or more people who are all unrelated.” It reminded me of David…

Reprinted from DC Journal Every year, global climate summits feature a parade of hypocrisy as the world’s elite arrive on private jets to…

Ivory netsuke of the Hare with Amber Eyes, held in the collection of Edmund de Waal (Wikimedia Commons) Roger Scruton, in his wonderful…

Reprinted from Alt-M On October 10th, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig won the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences, sharing it with Ben…

Roughly one century ago, “progressives” set out to take over American education. They wanted to extirpate the individualism that had always been the…

Last year around this time I wrote an article entitled “The Horrors of a Noninflationary Thanksgiving.” In it I showed that consumers seeking…

Reprinted from the Institute for Faith & Freedom On October 3, 1789 George Washington signed the first Thanksgiving Proclamation of the newly constituted…

Reprinted from the Independent Institute Feast and football. That’s what many of us think about at Thanksgiving. Most people identify the origin of…