Economy Interest Rate Caps Keep Coming Back — Bastiat Explained Why They Fail by March 19, 2026 by March 19, 2026 Compare this argument from President Trump on Truth Social, in January 2026, to another (perhaps the same?) made by Pierre… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Congress Knows It Has a Spending Problem, But Won’t Fix It by March 19, 2026 by March 19, 2026 At a recent Senate hearing on the fiscal outlook, legislators and budget experts said the quiet part out loud: the… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Reflections on Saturday Morning TV—and The Regulations That Ended It by March 18, 2026 by March 18, 2026 My childhood (metaphorically speaking) ended in the early 2000s, when traditional, kid-focused, Saturday morning broadcast television was fading away. Being… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Free Speech in the Digital Age: From Natural Right to Digital Credential by March 18, 2026 by March 18, 2026 Freedom of speech is a natural right, not a privilege dispensed by governments when convenient. It precedes the state itself.… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Monetary Policy Rules Suggest Fed Should Hold Steady in March by March 17, 2026 by March 17, 2026 The Federal Open Market Committee is widely expected to leave its federal funds rate target unchanged at 3.5 to 3.75… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Can Immigration Address America’s Fiscal Nightmare? It Depends by March 17, 2026 by March 17, 2026 On February 11, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its latest Budget and Economic Outlook. It made for grim reading.… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy The Long Shadow of COVID School Closures by March 17, 2026 by March 17, 2026 On the morning of March 12 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the campus scene was simultaneously typical and surreal. Students and… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Fed Officials Face Diverging Mandates by March 16, 2026 by March 16, 2026 Inflation ticked down in January, the latest data released Friday from the Bureau of Economic Analysis shows. But it still… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy China’s AI Paradox: Can Innovation Thrive in a Captive Mind? by March 16, 2026 by March 16, 2026 In the technology arms race between the United States and China for dominance in artificial intelligence (AI), we are often… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
Economy Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Ditches Seattle After Wealth Tax Vote by March 16, 2026 by March 16, 2026 I recently used economist Albert Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty to explain why Jacinda Ardern, the former prime minister of… 0 FacebookTwitterPinterestEmail
