Daniel Sutter

By most measures of income, yes, but income does not account for the cost of living. 

The Business Roundtable (BR), a group of chief executive officers (CEOs) of some of America’s largest corporations, recently released a statement claiming that businesses have a broader purpose than simply making profit. 

More than three million students will begin college this year, many pursuing degrees needed for high paying jobs.

Zoning and land use regulation has largely choked off housing construction in many American cities.  This is an unintended but predictable consequence of requiring government permission for building.

The Alabama legislature lowered the minimum age for a truck driver’s (CDL) license to 18 for within-state transport to help alleviate a driver shortage the American Trucking Associations (ATA) says has existed since 2005. 

Several Democratic presidential candidates are proposing raising the top income tax rate to 70 percent. 

President Trump is creating a Presidential Committee on Climate Security to scrutinize climate science. 

Democrats are calling the newest single-payer healthcare proposals “Medicare for All.” 

I frequently extol the virtues of economic freedom, which generally produces prosperity and rising standards of living.  However, could economic freedom possibly be contributing to America’s opioid crisis and its tragic deaths?

Last October, Hurricane Michael slammed the Florida panhandle with 155 mile per hour (mph) winds. 

President Trump is reportedly considering former Godfather’s Pizza CEO and one-time presidential candidate Herman Cain for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. 

A carbon tax involves some good economics and is probably the best way to address global warming. 

Some commentators and politicians have proposed regulating Facebook, Twitter, and Google as public utilities.  To make sense of this proposal, let’s consider the economic role of public utilities.