U.S. Economy

Opponents of employment-at-will speak of defending an employee's "individual freedom." Arthur Foulkes argues that this isn't freedom at all.

We went from tariffs being the major source of federal government revenue to what we have today under the income tax and payroll taxes.

Although the FairTax would eliminate the filing of all individual tax returns, writes Laurence Vance, the FairTax turns every business into a tax collector.

Blaming OPEC has been in political fashion for over three decades, writes Chris Westley.

The rich find ways around the tax eaters, writes, Kirby Cundiff, by moving income and capital around and lobbying for loopholes.

What chain of events led to "free" Americans having less in the way of health choices under some circumstances than "unfree" socialist Europe? Dale Steinreich examines the FDA.

The Federal Reserve seems determined to deny the role they and President Bush has played in creating the hugh U.S. current account deficit.

Gene Callahan argues that despite vast research and erudition, Jared Diamond has little understanding of what history actually is.

The consequences of government control over such stock-market investments would be extremely grave, writes George Reisman. But there is another way.

The Confederate government blockaded the Southern economy by bad policies like impressment and trying to run the blockade themselves. The government declared that fifty percent of all cargo space had to be for the Confederate government.