by Peter C. Earle | Dec 20, 2024 | MARKETS
If Bitcoin is someday supplanted by another digital asset offering indisputable improvements, its foundational role in seeding and anchoring the cryptocurrency asset class — and in driving trillions of dollars of investment into similar and related assets and enterprises — will remain as significant, if not more so, than its contributions to the present.
by Peter C. Earle | Dec 20, 2024 | Healthcare
Critics who applaud violence against executives like Brian Thompson misunderstand how the healthcare system operates — and seem content to wallow in those adolescent misapprehensions.
by Jay Greene | Dec 20, 2024 | Education
The department is designed to provide material and political benefits to the teachers’ unions, not to improve student outcomes.
by Jaana Woiceshyn | Dec 20, 2024 | Journalism
What should be the purpose of the news media?
by Jon Miltimore | Dec 19, 2024 | Europe
Ayn Rand’s story is fiction, of course. But what is happening in Norway is real. Wealthy entrepreneurs are abandoning the country because they are tired of being looted by parasitic politicians.
by Michael Chapman | Dec 9, 2024 | Price Controls
California’s minimum wage law for fast-food workers is, like any such law, a price floor; it is a price control on labor.
by Alan Dershowitz | Dec 4, 2024 | LAW
Lawfare involves the targeting of defendants based primarily on who they are rather than what they have done.
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Nov 27, 2024 | Regulation
It was called “Interim Operational Considerations for Implementing the Shielding Approach to Prevent COVID-19 Infections in Humanitarian Settings.”
by Institute for Energy Research | Nov 26, 2024 | Climate
President Milei is now considering announcing a formal withdrawal from the Paris Agreement and has referred to the so-called climate crisis as “another Socialist lie.”