Survey Finds Lockdowns Are Only Making The Ruling Class Richer While Brutalizing The Poor And Middle Class
Wall Street, Washington, D.C., and Silicon Valley are swimming in cash and prosperity. The vast majority of Americans, on the other hand, are gasping for air.
Your Future Earnings Are Quickly Becoming Other People’s Money
Every stimulus grabs control from shoppers and hands control to government people. You will pay again later by getting less for the lower-value dollars as Social Security checks.
People Who Have Nothing To Live For Destroy Everything For The Rest Of Us
Despite our civilization’s wealth and technological prowess, many among us have been dispossessed of what matters most.
Why Democrats Are Wrong About Income Inequality In The United States
Plenty of evidence has shown there are more effective ways to help the poor climb up the economic ladder, including cutting taxes, widening school choice, and eliminating ruinous regulations.
Research Finds Conservatives Are More Happy, Generous, And Purposeful Than Liberals
Despite the left telling people otherwise, research finds conservatives have happier families, find more meaning in life, are generally happier overall, and donate far more money and time to the needy than their liberal peers do.
Study: Top Motivation For Hating Capitalism Isn’t Compassion, It’s Resentment
Competing motives of compassion for the needy and resentment of the successful may play a role in dividing the Democratic primary voters approaching 2020.
Bernie Says Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist. New Survey Finds Americans Heartily Disagree
A new study from the Cato Institute shows that 82 percent of Americans believe that people ‘should be allowed to become billionaires.’
College Admissions Scandal Reveals Parents Grossly Misunderstand College And Their Children
Children rarely become what their parents imagine for them, and it’s pointless to think they will. The problem isn’t the kids; it’s the parents’ expectations.
Analysis: If America’s Poor Were Their Own Nation, They’d Be Among The World’s Richest
America’s poorest people spend more per year than does the average resident in the rest of the world’s developed nations. Where do they get all that money? Well, a lot of it is from taxpayers.
Here’s Why Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Is Completely Unconstitutional
Warren, a Harvard law professor, understands the difference between direct taxes and indirect taxes, but she’s counting on the people not to pay attention.
How To Start Restoring Dignity To ‘Back Row America’
After years of working on Wall Street, Chris Arnade’s remarkable new book caused him to venture beyond his affluent circumstances and reassess everything he thought about poverty and religion.
Bill Burr Is Right About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Socialist Tax Rates
Much like the dorm kid who thought up dollar razors, comedian Bill Burr sees a 70 percent tax rate as a fundamentally unfair prize for pushing through and making a career out of comedy.
Millennials Are Not Embracing Socialism Because They’re Poor, But Because They’re Rich
The discomfort, embarrassment, and guilt of living well in a cruel world plagues young Americans who have no framework for understanding cosmic inequalities.
Millennials Are The Most Prosperous Generation That’s Ever Lived
If the world continues on its present trajectory, millennials will have collectively lived the most prosperous lives in the history of the world.
The Green New Deal’s Job Guarantee Rests On The Lie That People Can Escape Risk
This idea reflects a complete ignorance of the fact that wealth is created, not something that exists in stagnant perpetuity, and that jobs exist to generate that wealth.
Watch Cardi B. Do A Better Job Defending Wealth Than Howard Schultz Does
In a Twitter video posted on Tuesday, the ‘Money’ rapper stated explicitly that people who worked hard for their wealth should be able to spend it.
Why The Labor Market, Not Consumption, Is Central To Economic Prosperity
Oren Cass joins the Federalist Radio Hour to discuss wage stagnation, universal basic income, and why we need to reevaluate the importance of work.
In ‘All Happy Families,’ Jeanne McCulloch Tries To Learn From A Family Full Of Bad Marriages
In Jeanne McCulloch’s new memoir, ‘All Happy Families,’ the former managing editor of The Paris Review picks apart the failed marriages in her family with recollections that are at once potent and imperfect.
Why Everything Is Wonderful But Nobody’s Happy, And What To Do About It
Never before in human history have so many, with so much, been so miserable. See, happiness requires the risk of unhappiness. The alternative to loneliness is the risk of heartbreak.
Debunking Socialist Myths: 90 Percent Of Scandinavia’s Wealth Is Privately Owned
The Bruenig standard indicates Scandinavia is less socialist than the average non-Scandinavian country, including the United States under the most conservative presidency of our lifetime.