Living standards are increasing, even though they should be rising faster.
Daily Analysis
Story about German “Poverty” Features World’s Most Dishonest Headline or World’s Most Clueless Headline
The real story is the statist campaign to redefine poverty to mean unequal distribution of income.
Hillary, Bernie, and the Fixed-Pie Fallacy
The left’s failure to understand the economy leads to policies that make inequality worse.
OECD Pushing Big Government in South Africa
What does the OECD have against South Africa?
Report Documents Benefits from Fracking Boom
American energy is booming, but more can be done.
Canada Shows How to Eliminate the Tax Bias against Saving
What we can learned from our northern neighbors.
Whether Looking at Policy or Politics, Growth Trumps Fairness
Why is President Obama so fixated on a class-warfare agenda of higher taxes on the rich and government dependency for the poor? Is it because a tax-the-rich agenda is good politics, as determined by clever pollsters who have tapped into the collective mind of American…
The Simple Lesson We Should Learn from Global Economics
I very rarely feel sorry for statists. After all, these are the people who think that their feelings of envy and inadequacy justify bigger and more coercive government. And I get especially irked when I think about how their authoritarian policies will hurt the most…
Lower Tax Rates vs. Targeted Tax Credits, Part II
I wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal last week about the policy debate over whether it’s better to lower tax rates or to provide targeted tax cuts for parents. Since this meant I was wading into a fight between so-called reform conservatives (or “reformicons”)…
Statists Propose to Punish Success as Inequality Fix
Thomas Picketty has received a lot of attention for his attack on capitalism. His new book Capital in the Twenty-first Century has breathed new life into old Marxist critiques of capitalism, and been elevated to the status of very important book by the designated…