Jeffrey Tucker

Trump is exactly right that problems trace to preposterous government regulations designed to save water that actually end up using more, and not dealing with the real problem which has nothing to do with domestic water use. 

A few days ago, it was my pleasure to spend two hours listening to the ideas and concerns of a well-educated and politically informed – dare I say socially privileged – self-described socialist.

On Tuesday, Disney will release an amazing thing that no one on the planet could have anticipated 10 years ago: a service that streams Disney programming on the Internet available to subscribers for $7 per month.

Here’s the word of the day: viscoelastic. It is a substance that seems solid but slowly drips into a puddle over time. The same substance if pulled quickly snaps and breaks. 

The latest survey of small business contains a surprise. Or maybe it is not a surprise if you are or know a small business owner.

If you subscribe to Netflix and care about the future of human liberty, I urge you right now to search and find the documentary called The Pursuit, newly on the lineup of this subscription service.

Earlier this year, Pope Francis again blasted capitalism as “a fallacious economic model that has been followed for too long.”

Generations of Americans have taken the ideal of free trade for granted – until the Trump administration, led by the self-described “tariff man,” turned on it and replaced it with a mercantilist strategy.

You can believe that socialism is wonderful, as apparently many people do, and no one will stop you.

That socialism as an idea could survive hundreds of years — even back to the ancient world — is a tribute to the capacity of the human mind to imagine it can create that which reality will forever decline to make possible.

It’s a cornerstone of political economy that producers and traders need stable rules.

That copyright today favors publishers and not authors is not inconsistent with its long history.

The number one problem of all public debate about politics and economics is the failure to name the state. If this would change, so would public opinion.