Clark Packard In early February, the ever-protectionist Trump administration announced it would immediately eliminate the “de minimis exemption” for low-value shipments arriving from China, effectively...
Colin Grabow Citing alleged unfairness in the current trading system, President Donald Trump appears to be laying the groundwork for the adoption of a...
Chris Edwards and Yasmeen Kallash-Kyler In a seeming reversal, the Trump administration is rumored to be considering ending the US Postal Service’s quasi-independence and...
Jeffrey Miron Does a government definition of property rights promote economic progress? A recent paper suggests yes: Cadastres—records of landownership—provide governments with the information...
Chris Edwards Hurricanes Helene and Milton have now passed, leaving trails of destruction. Some politicians are using the disasters as a political football, focusing...
Ian Vásquez (Screenshot: Amazon.com) This fall marks both the 50th anniversary of economist Friedrich Hayek winning the Nobel Prize and the 80th anniversary of...
Marc Joffe As I’ve discussed in this space previously, state licensing requirements are contributing to the shortage of Certified Public Accountants (CPAs). Recently, the American...
Ryan Bourne Fifty years ago today, on October 9, 1974, Friedrich Hayek was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred...
Michael F. Cannon Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris proposes to expand Medicare by having it subsidize in-home long-term care for enrollees—paying...