Economic Freedom

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Tyler Turman

By introducing legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley is demonstrating that while Republicans like to talk about free markets, they are statists and interventionists like their Democratic colleagues across the aisle.

Phil Duffy

When Cardinal Robert Prevost was named Pope, he took the name of Pope Leo XIV. Leo XIII authored Rerum Novarum, which is the basis for Catholic social teaching and is friendlier to private property and free markets than anything the Vatican has produced since then.

Phil Duffy

When Cardinal Robert Prevost was named Pope, he took the name of Pope Leo XIV. Leo XIII authored Rerum Novarum, which is the basis for Catholic social teaching and is friendlier to private property and free markets than anything the Vatican has produced since then.

George Ford Smith

Our media, higher education, and, of course, governments tell us that our social and economic problems are due to capitalism. Yet, what we see are governments bringing us inflation, chaos, and the horror of war. It's time we abandon the fiction that governments "serve the people."

Joshua Mawhorter

America inherited the core institutional framework of Europe (especially Britain) but refined and amplified it through greater decentralization, lower taxation, and more expansive freedoms.

Łukasz Jasiński

Would medical care be available to people who might have a difficult time paying for it? In a private property order, charitable institutions would play an important role in ensuring more people have access to medical treatment.

Frank Shostak

Monetarists and rational expectations economists believe that if monetary policy is transparent, then increases in the money supply will not have negative effects. The actual results say otherwise, as introducing new money into the economy leads to economic instability.