Price Inflation Is a Real School Choice Worry. But Right Now, It’s More about Survival
Neal McCluskey In Iowa, Holy Family Catholic Schools announced that they would be raising prices 10 to 40 percent, depending on a families’ relationship to the parish, given the state’s new education savings account program. In Florida, St. Paul Catholic School announced
We Already Know That Harder Law Enforcement Leads to Harder Drugs. It Also Leads to More Numerous Overdose Deaths.
Jeffrey A. Singer I have written often about the so‐called Iron Law of Prohibition: “The harder the law enforcement, the harder the drug.” Prohibition incentivizes purveyors of the prohibited substance to develop more potent forms that can be smuggled more easily
The Feds Escalate the War on Crypto
On this episode of Good Money with Tho Bishop, Jeffrey Kauffman joins the show to discuss recent attacks from the SEC on major crypto exchanges. Kauffman, CEO of LBRY and content platform Odysee, shares his own company's battle with the
A Great Man Cannot Salvage a Bad Idea
When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen. —1970s TV commercial Imagine if your surname was synonymous with genius. And not just genius, but creative genius. Is there anything you could write or say that could be seriously challenged? Among your colleagues, certainly. Science
Congressional Oversight: Document Demands Edition
Patrick G. Eddington I think it’s fair to question whether or not the current House Oversight Committee inquiry into allegations against the President and his son, Hunter Biden (with respect to questionable business dealings with a Ukrainian energy company), is the kind
Charting Some of Industrial Policy’s Opportunity Costs
Adam N. Michel and Scott Lincicome In the last few years, Congress has authorized as much as $2.1 trillion in domestic subsidies for preferred industries such as steel, semiconductors, and electric vehicles—a flood of taxpayer cash that supporters have cheered
Surprisingly, the World Is Becoming More Equal
Chelsea Follett Reading the news or listening to politicians and pundits speak, one could easily get the impression that global inequality is getting worse. But is the widely held belief that the world is becoming less equal true, or is it
The Woke Cartel and Twitter’s New CEO
With the appointment of Linda Yaccarino as Twitter's new CEO, Elon Musk is trying to appease woke advertisers to bring up his company's revenues. This will not end well. Original Article: "The Woke Cartel and Twitter's New CEO"
To Avarice No Sanction
“No point in the field of political economy merits more thought and analysis than where to draw the line distinguishing the functions proper to government from the role assumed by all-out government—socialism. A good society is but a dream unless
The Drug War: An Irrational Crusade
The drug war of the last half century has incarcerated millions and created havoc. What it hasn't done is eliminate people using drugs without government permission. Original Article: "The Drug War: An Irrational Crusade"