Free Markets
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Entrepreneurship Requires More Than a Million-Dollar Idea
The entrepreneur’s challenge is creating value others want to buy. They don’t start with a perfect idea, but with a willingness to listen and learn.
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Does Funding Research Give Government a Claim to Tech Firms?
Public research may contribute to private innovation, but causal influence does not give government an ownership stake.
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The Unintended Consequences of Vacancy Taxes
Taxing vacant properties may be politically appealing, but they have little effect on rents while creating new economic distortions.
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States Relying on Federal Aid Face a Reckoning
Pandemic-era aid allowed many states to expand spending without confronting long-term costs. The bill is coming due.
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Hamilton’s Economic Vision Had One Crucial Blind Spot
Hamilton recognized the importance of manufacturing but overlooked the market processes that create lasting prosperity.
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Bastiat Was Right: Tariffs Make The World Poorer
Protectionism promises stronger industries. History shows it delivers higher prices, fewer jobs, and weaker growth.
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Trillionaire Entrepreneurs, Forgotten Risks, and the Politics of Envy
Once entrepreneurial success arrives, few recall the risks, ridicule, failed ventures, sleepless nights, and near-disasters that came before.
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When Congress Waged War on Cheap Groceries
Long before Amazon and Walmart, politicians targeted A&P for lowering prices with scale and efficiency. The resulting law protected competitors at the expense of grocery buyers.
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World’s First Net-Worth Trillionaire Shows Us How Markets Price the Future
Behind the headline figure lies a deeper economic story: financial markets assigning enormous value to long-duration, high-risk technological bets.
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Is ‘Ethical’ Coffee Morally Superior? Information Problems Haunt Conscious Consumers
Fair trade, organic, reef-safe, rainforest friendly, cruelty-free: are ethical labels useful signals, or simply morality as marketing?
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Entrepreneurship Requires More Than a Million-Dollar Idea
The entrepreneur’s challenge is creating value others want to buy. They don’t start with a perfect idea, but with a willingness to listen and learn.
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•
Does Funding Research Give Government a Claim to Tech Firms?
Public research may contribute to private innovation, but causal influence does not give government an ownership stake.
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•
The Unintended Consequences of Vacancy Taxes
Taxing vacant properties may be politically appealing, but they have little effect on rents while creating new economic distortions.
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•
States Relying on Federal Aid Face a Reckoning
Pandemic-era aid allowed many states to expand spending without confronting long-term costs. The bill is coming due.
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•
Hamilton’s Economic Vision Had One Crucial Blind Spot
Hamilton recognized the importance of manufacturing but overlooked the market processes that create lasting prosperity.
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•
Bastiat Was Right: Tariffs Make The World Poorer
Protectionism promises stronger industries. History shows it delivers higher prices, fewer jobs, and weaker growth.
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•
Trillionaire Entrepreneurs, Forgotten Risks, and the Politics of Envy
Once entrepreneurial success arrives, few recall the risks, ridicule, failed ventures, sleepless nights, and near-disasters that came before.
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•
When Congress Waged War on Cheap Groceries
Long before Amazon and Walmart, politicians targeted A&P for lowering prices with scale and efficiency. The resulting law protected competitors at the expense of grocery buyers.
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•
World’s First Net-Worth Trillionaire Shows Us How Markets Price the Future
Behind the headline figure lies a deeper economic story: financial markets assigning enormous value to long-duration, high-risk technological bets.
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•
Is ‘Ethical’ Coffee Morally Superior? Information Problems Haunt Conscious Consumers
Fair trade, organic, reef-safe, rainforest friendly, cruelty-free: are ethical labels useful signals, or simply morality as marketing?