Stockholm fired a shot across the Establishment bow by recognizing Hayek, but it was an honor the great man from Vienna richly deserved.
https://fee.org/articles/remembering-hayek-s-remarkable-nobel-lecture/
Antitrust laws are built on nothing but poor reasoning and misguided apprehensions.
https://fee.org/articles/debunking-all-the-main-arguments-for-antitrust-laws/
Did you know that two of the most famous samurai in history were not Japanese?
The fiscal burden of the United States is getting seriously out of hand.
Any efforts to control new school startups or create “guardrails” around them will only slow educational progress and stymie entrepreneurship and innovation.
https://fee.org/articles/a-robust-education-marketplace-means-some-schools-will-fail/
Non-compete clauses get a lot of hate, but the arguments against them don’t have much merit.
https://fee.org/articles/there-s-nothing-wrong-with-non-compete-clauses/
Many more people in Sweden are alive today because Anders Tegnell understands the economic lesson of secondary consequences better than many economists.
Ask an Economist #27
https://fee.org/articles/do-traffic-tickets-make-us-drive-more-safely/
Consumers need free competition, not misguided regulations.
https://fee.org/articles/regulating-junk-fees-is-not-the-way-to-help-bank-customers/
Conscription is forced labor, and a particularly egregious type of forced labor at that. It has no place in a free society.
https://fee.org/articles/myanmar-junta-s-decision-to-impose-a-draft-shows-how-not-to-run-a-military/
Even if the “surge pricing” fears were true, would that experiment really be such a bad thing?
Meiji Japan was not a liberal paradise. But the country in 1900 was notably freer, more industrialized and prosperous, and substantially more modern than it had been just three decades earlier.
https://fee.org/articles/why-the-meiji-restoration-was-pivotal-for-japan/
Ask an Economist #26
https://fee.org/articles/breaking-down-mmt-s-guaranteed-jobs-scheme-for-fighting-inflation/
The British government is funding leftist activist organizations that are lobbying against the government's own policies.
https://fee.org/articles/how-radical-leftist-activist-groups-have-captured-the-british-government/
Minnesota lawmakers are at best offering a “solution” to a problem that doesn’t exist. At worst, they are weaponizing the law to benefit special interests.
https://fee.org/articles/why-painting-without-a-license-could-soon-be-illegal-in-minnesota/
In a free market, schools that focus on socialist ideology and “radical politics” could exist.
https://fee.org/articles/schools-with-radical-politics-must-be-tolerated-in-a-free-society/
The proposed wealth tax is just the latest in a series of attacks against productive entrepreneurs.
https://fee.org/articles/california-s-politicians-appear-determined-to-bring-atlas-shrugged-to-life/
Exploring the existential crisis behind the fear of AI.
The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a major win for free speech and police reform by awarding a Louisiana man $205,000 in compensatory and punitive damages for an unlawful 2020 raid.
The revelation that Argentina has done something the US government hasn’t done in more than two decades—run a budget surplus—seems like a newsworthy event. So why the silence?
We are thrilled to begin our next chapter with Diogo at the helm.
https://fee.org/articles/diogo-costa-named-12th-president-of-the-foundation-for-economic-education/
The outcome of New Jersey’s ban on single-use plastic bags is a perfect illustration of an economic truth.
https://fee.org/articles/new-jerseys-plastic-bag-ban-backfire-explained/
What Putin said about Poland cries out for rectification.
https://fee.org/articles/breaking-down-tucker-carlson-s-interview-with-vladimir-putin/
Ask an Economist #25
The sun may be setting on the dollar’s global hegemony.