The minimum wage debate is littered with examples of second‐order consequences that tend to get ignored.
Governments can’t simply mandate higher wages into existence without imposing significant unintended consequences.
The Senate cannot confirm individuals more committed to partisan politics than to the Constitution and the proper role of agency rule-making in our government.
A person falling into a black hole and being stretched while approaching the black hole’s horizon. Leo Rodriguez and Shanshan Rodriguez, CC BY-ND Leo Rodriguez, Grinnell College and Shanshan Rodriguez, Grinnell College Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it … Continue reading Could a human enter a black hole to study it?
No matter how trapped we young people feel in our own lives, how insecure we feel about our futures, there is always reason to have faith in the goodness of others and to have optimism for the future.
Two of the loudest interest groups in the economic policy world these days have an oddly similar approach.
New York Times writer Kevin Roose recently surveyed “our truth-challenged information ecosystem” and found a proliferation of “hoaxes, lies and collective delusions.” As he put it, that limits the Biden administration’s ability to “unite a country,” because “millions of people have chosen to create their own version of reality.” In response, he called for the … Continue reading No, We Don’t Need a ‘Reality-Czar’: Let Truth and Falsehood Grapple
Decentralized currencies could help to break down the grip of the state and let Venezuelans finally breathe free.
The PRO Act won’t help independent workers. It will eliminate their jobs or strip them of the flexibility that attracted them to the gig economy in the first place.
Import taxes on washing machines have cost Americans over $800,000 per job created.
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