Updates
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November 2026
AI may benefit ordinary people more than its critics assume.
Nov 8
Free-market capitalism has created extraordinary material progress because it gives…
Nov 7
High prices are often symptoms of policies that restrict supply and weaken competition.
Nov 6
More healthcare spending does not automatically mean better health.
Nov 5
Ayn Rand saw the businessman as a symbol of something larger than commerce…
Nov 3
Production is more than the mechanical combination of labor, land, and capital.
Nov 2 · ♥ 67 · Government
October 2026
The biggest problem with US health insurance is that it distorts prices.
Oct 24 · ♥ 37 · Full
Capitalism should not be blamed for privileges created by government.
Oct 23 · ♥ 1.1K · Foundation for Economic Education Essentials
Wall Street makes an easy villain in the housing crisis.
Oct 22 · ♥ 99 · Explores
France’s economic troubles run deeper than the rising cost of living.
Oct 21 · ♥ 950 · Foundation for Economic Education Essentials
During World War II, the US government imposed wage controls to contain inflation.
Oct 20 · ♥ 91 · Full
Free-market capitalism motivates you to serve others on their own terms…
Oct 19 · ♥ 353 · Explores
Why is Michael Woodford’s “New Keynesian” model so different from old Keynesianism?
Oct 18 · ♥ 367
Europe wants technological sovereignty.
Oct 17 · ♥ 115 · Explores
Rushing to regulate AI out of every hypothetical danger may create real ones.
Oct 16 · ♥ 56 · Explores
Housing subsidies become far more expensive when government refuses to let housing supply…
Oct 15 · ♥ 30 · Full
What did Robert Hall change about modern macroeconomics?
Oct 14 · ♥ 369 · Topic
A tariff born from a 1960s dispute over chicken still makes American trucks more…
Oct 13 · ♥ 124 · Full
Thomas Sowell understood that consumers are often protected most effectively when…
Oct 12 · ♥ 744 · Foundation for Economic Education Essentials
No matter how advanced AI becomes, economic coordination requires more than computing…
Oct 10 · ♥ 91 · Topic
Data centers are essential to modern life, storing everything from personal photos and…
Oct 9 · ♥ 67 · Explores
Milton Friedman understood that the way we spend money changes our incentives.
Oct 8 · ♥ 991 · Foundation for Economic Education Essentials
You can’t have your cheap burger and a higher minimum wage too.
Oct 6 · ♥ 244 · Topic
Trade creates a web of mutual dependence that strengthens rather than weakens our ability…
Oct 5 · ♥ 112
What does the Fed’s latest rate hike change?
Oct 4 · ♥ 75 · Full
Socialism fails because planners cannot replace the information created by markets.
Oct 3 · ♥ 262 · Explores
Criticizing capitalism is easy when capitalism is defined by its critics.
Oct 2 · ♥ 203 · Explores
The reasons for regulating AI are far weaker than one could expect.
Oct 1 · ♥ 567 · Explores
September 2026
Ludwig von Mises was a superb economist.
Sep 30 · ♥ 271
A country can be rich in natural resources and still be poor in opportunities.
Sep 29 · ♥ 20K · Foundation for Economic Education Essentials
Innovation is inherently rebellious.
Sep 28 · ♥ 278 · Topic
People are having fewer children.
Sep 27 · ♥ 133 · Topic
America’s healthcare system is often blamed on “the free market,” but much of it is…
Sep 26 · ♥ 135 · Full
If more efficient tires save drivers money, why make them mandatory?
Sep 25 · ♥ 107 · Explores
Why have home prices soared when construction costs haven’t risen nearly as much?
Sep 24 · ♥ 146 · Full
Can government-owned grocery stores really make food dramatically cheaper?
Sep 22 · ♥ 527 · Full
Ayn Rand saw capitalism as more than an economic system.
Sep 21 · ♥ 646 · Explores
PISA 2025 should worry anyone who cares about prosperity.
Sep 20 · ♥ 137
Thomas Sowell challenges one of the most persistent economic myths…
Sep 19 · ♥ 1.7K · Foundation for Economic Education Essentials
AI may change education less by replacing learning than by forcing us to ask what is…
Sep 18 · ♥ 43 · Explores
Adam Smith’s ideas changed the world.
Sep 17 · ♥ 124 · Markets
AI is developing at breakneck speed.
Sep 16 · ♥ 57
Economist Mark Perry’s “Chart of the Century” tells a striking story about prices.
Sep 15 · ♥ 121 · Topic
Value begins in the human mind.
Sep 14 · ♥ 350 · Explores
Hopping on the ’80s trend, but Milton Friedman was actually spending the decade bringing…
Sep 13 · ♥ 578 · Government
Panic over AI can make us forget how innovation actually works.
Sep 12 · ♥ 62 · Full
There’s invisible coordination behind the things we buy.
Sep 11 · ♥ 160
Ayn Rand understood that communism often advances through the moral weakness of those who…
Sep 10 · ♥ 427
“Greedflation” is an easy story to tell because it gives people a villain.
Sep 8 · ♥ 108 · Explores
There is a strange inconsistency in attacking capitalism while celebrating the abundance…
Sep 7 · ♥ 571 · Explores
Why the arguments for AI-socialist planning fail.
Sep 6 · ♥ 704 · Foundation for Economic Education Essentials
AI has revived an old socialist hope: maybe central planning can finally work.
Sep 5 · ♥ 91 · Full
Old television rules are colliding with 21st-century streaming.
Sep 4 · ♥ 91 · Explores
Rent control sounds like an easy way to make housing affordable.
Sep 3 · ♥ 110 · Full
AI may be revolutionary and still disappoint investors in the short term.
Sep 1 · ♥ 49 · Full
August 2026
Rent control represents a classic economic paradox…
Aug 31 · ♥ 448
New York City is in a massive housing crisis, yet up to 50,000 apartments are sitting…
Aug 30 · ♥ 486
Housing costs are high because cities let too little get built.
Aug 29 · ♥ 106 · Full
Big investors make convenient villains.
Aug 28 · ♥ 233 · Explores
Economics has always been a challenge to political conceit.
Aug 27 · ♥ 545 · Full
Nobel laureate Kenneth Arrow shows how health policies drive up costs.
Aug 26 · ♥ 155 · Government
Free economies do something rare in human history…
Aug 24 · ♥ 172 · Explores
Washington just handed taxpayers and their children a $40 trillion bill.
Aug 23 · ♥ 135 · Government
Mamdani’s Delivery Protection Act promises to protect delivery workers…
Aug 22 · ♥ 302 · Explores
Gas prices make politicians impatient, but threats do not create fuel.
Aug 21 · ♥ 93 · Explores
The country that once stunned Soviet politician Boris Yeltsin with grocery abundance is…
Aug 21 · ♥ 120 · Full
How one supermarket visit connects Soviet scarcity to today’s grocery debate.
Aug 19 · ♥ 242 · Full
Why did grocery prices rise so much?
Aug 18 · ♥ 198 · Full
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