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President Trump recently signed a G-20 statement that supports international regulation of U.S. financial institutions, something that flies in the face of his domestic political positions.
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The Trump and Obama administrations agree on at least one point: occupational licensure harms Americans both as consumers and as producers.
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Trends in crowdfunding and cryptocurrencies are converging into a mechanism catapulting cash-poor young companies and fashioning a new financing landscape.
READ MOREWhat is a market economy? We often talk about it as though it were a thing, perhaps a machine or a vehicle. Business reporters say it heats up or cools down. Sometimes it even gets stuck in a ditch. But it’s not a thing subject to heating or cooling or …
READ MORESome of Europe’s biggest electricity operators plan to start trading on a blockchain platform before the end of this year, although a collision with the European Union’s regulatory apparatus remains a possibility. E.ON, Enel, and Engie are among the co …
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The free market — indeed, a free society — is founded on individual rights, including the right to one’s justly acquired property. If the government’s rules regarding the use and disposal of property are “flexible,” a free society is doomed.
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The American Revolution is still being fought, and the Washington-based administrative state is the biggest enemy.
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Uncertainty surrounding Obamacare and the Republican effort to reform its health-insurance rules has given an opening to those who want the government to be the sole payer of Americans’ medical bills.
READ MOREHistory is something you can try to escape, but sometimes you can’t, as millions of train riders find out every day. They can’t escape Penn Station falling apart along with Amtrak, New York City commuter railroads, and the New York City subways. Every …
READ MORETexans’ writing checks as good as gold is just a few months from reality. In June, Texas state authorities selected the builder/operator and administrator for a depository that will store gold and other precious metals. The builder/operator, Austin-bas …
READ MOREThe movement to raise the national minimum wage to $15 an hour has suffered a blow with a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper evaluating the recent experience in Seattle, Wash. The paper by Ekaterina Jardim and four other University …
READ MOREBorrowing for education has more than doubled in the last 20 years, from $42.6 billion for the 1995–96 school year to $106.8 billion in 2015–16, although that figure has fallen from the $124.2 billion peak in 2010–11 (all reported values in 2015 dollar …
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