Nicholas Eberstadt Measures Longevity, Working Men, And US-Korea Relations
AEI Scholar Nicholas Eberstadt discusses worldwide trends inequality, education, and longevity on the Federalist Radio Hour.
Minneapolis’ Minimum Wage Hike Will Hurt The Workers It’s Supposed To Help
Laws can demand doubling the pay for low-skilled workers, but there’s no way to mandate how businesses will deal with unsustainable labor costs.
New Minimum Wage Study Gives Proponents A Chance To Think Better of Those Who Disagree
It matters if the worker isn’t helped, and is even hurt, by minimum-wage hikes. If there is credible research to support this notion, there’s reason to give your fellow Americans the benefit of the doubt.
Nope, The Evidence Still Says Income Inequality Is Not A Problem
Women don’t have to work to support their families, houses are not more expensive, college costs aren’t related to wage decreases, and wages have not stagnated since the 1970s.
Obamacare Debate Is Largely About Welfare For Unhealthy Middle-Class Americans
The accusation that Republicans really want to shove the inhabitants of pediatric cancer wards onto the streets to die is obscuring the health-care debate we need to have.
Reevaluating Work, Talent, And The Low-Skill Labor Force In A Modern Economy
Urbanophile Aaron Renn discusses American cities, the opioid crisis, and the changing labor force on this episode of The Federalist Radio Hour.
Globalism And Why We Hate Each Other
We shouldn’t make the mistake of thinking that the current escalations in political rhetoric and acts of violence are divorced from these broader globalist trends.
Congressman Dave Brat Talks Tax Reform, Angry Electorates, And Ethics
Rep. Dave Brat joins Federalist Radio and dispatches from the health care and budget debates taking place on Capitol Hill.
Nationalism Is Just Socialism Draped In A Flag
As anyone familiar with political history could attest, the embrace of social statism isn’t some strategy intended to serve a separate and external goal of nationalism. It is the goal.
Will More Firstborns In The Future Mean Less Economic Dynamism?
Beneath the long history of findings that sing the praises of firstborns, there’s another, interesting story to tell about their economic Achilles’ heel.
I Lived On The Minimum Wage And Don’t Want Republicans To Raise It
I want higher wages for everyone, but raising the minimum wage will not do that.
Solar Energy Jobs Are Economic Potemkin Villages
A productive sector has the fewest number of people producing the greatest number of things we need. Solar does the opposite.
The Group Of Workers Most Like Trump Voters May Despise Them Most
Their industry is under siege. Advances in technology have cut deeply into their margins. They face competition from robots and cheap, non-union labor. Many shops have been closed.
Harvard Study: Minimum Wage Hikes Cut Entry-Level Jobs, Harm Poor Minorities Most
Researchers discovered that a $1 increase in the minimum wage leads to approximately a 4 to 10 percent increase in the likelihood of any given restaurant folding.
Left Wants To Make Abortion An Economic Issue To Sideline Its Atrocities
The Left wants to convince us that abortion is about economic progressivism. But that’s a distraction—abortion is really about human rights.
Everything You Need To Know About Trump’s Tax Reform Proposal
Experts from the Cato Institute and the Mercatus Center give their reactions to the good and bad in the Trump Administration’s plan for tax reform.
Education Is A Market Whether Liberals Like It Or Not
Republians prefer fascistic education programs, and Democrats prefer socialistic ones, but both are different costumes on the same old central planning wolf.
Trump’s ‘Buy American. Hire American’ Policy Is Dangerous Nonsense
President Trump’s ‘Buy American. Hire American’ is much like ‘fighting climate change’: a comforting government-prescribed solution that people embrace in theory but rarely practice.
This Practice Shows Health Care Can Be Cheap And Personal When People Pay Cash
Direct primary care offers in reality what our political class has thus far offered us only in theory: sane, reasonable, and affordable health care.
Coffee And Markets: Economic And Political Lessons from World War I, 100 Years Later
Brad Jackson is joined by author and historian David Pietrusza to discuss the 100th anniversary of America’s entry into World War I on the Coffee and Markets podcast.
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