The Economics of Gentrification
According to the mainstream media gentrification is the new monster to be fought. Why?
Protectionism and Free Trade
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Net Neutrality: Government Can’t Know the “Correct” Price for Internet Service
By manipulating markets for internet service, government agencies could be indirectly distorting markets and ruining innovation by forcing prices down.
Duties Imposed Against Chinese “Dumping” Hurt American Consumers
Democrats and Republicans all need to get over this mercantilist obsession over an imbalance of trade.
International Trade Under the Soviets: A Comedy of Errors
Economic calculation is impossible under socialism. This is as true with international trade as with domestic.
Poor Cities and Poorer Economics
It is not sweeping globalization that has kept these cities behind, but government policies.
The Eternal Struggle Between the Merchant and the Bureaucrat
Civilization, it ought to be remembered, has been created by those men who have resisted power, not by those who have exercised it.
The Chinese Exclusion Act Was An Assault on Private Property
Many private employers were contracting with Chinese workers to move to California and work. And then Congress outlawed the contracts.
Subsidies In One Place Don’t Justify Tariffs in Another
Imposing tariffs against subsidized foreign goods only swaps one bad government policy with another.
The Story that Netflix’s Heroin(e) Fails to Cover
The state provides incentives to doctors to over-prescribe opioid painkillers. An addiction crisis has followed.
3 Ways to Help Puerto Rico Right Now
Now more than ever, Puerto Ricans need easy access to global markets through unrestricted trade and unregulated commerce.
