I'm a healthy 48-year old anesthesiologist. At least I was healthy until an unintentional 20 pound weight loss over the summer, accompanied by unquenchable thirst, insatiable appetite, blurry vision, and the bathroom frequency of an elderly prostatic. My lab workup...
Economics
Lyft’s Job Access Program Shows How the Market Provides Help Government Can’t
by Chloe Anagnos | Nov 5, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
A new initiative launched by Lyft is helping people in low-income communities find jobs, highlighting the main difference between private and government-backed charity. The Jobs Access Program, a partnership between the ride-share company and other organizations such...
The Nordic Model Isn’t True Socialism
by Paul Boyce | Nov 5, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The likes of Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Corez consider the Nordic model a socialist utopia. It provides ‘free’ healthcare, ‘free’ education, and strong social protections. These are the core goals for some of the modern-day, self-professed, ‘democratic...
The Fed Looks Increasingly Concerned About Liquidity and Growth — Even If it Says Otherwise
by Ryan McMaken | Nov 3, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
The Federal Reserve lowered its benchmark interest rate on Wednesday, cutting the target federal funds rate by 0.25 percent to a range of 0.5 to 0.75 percent. The Fed's rate-setting committee, the FOMC, has now cut rates three times this year. The committee's rhetoric...
When Billionaires Want to Get Rid of Capitalism
by Jean Vilbert | Oct 30, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
"Successful economies are not jungles, they’re gardens, which is to say that markets, like gardens, must be tended, that the market is the greatest social technology ever invented to solving human problems, but unconstrained by social or democratic regulation, markets...
Americans Aren’t Volunteering or Giving to Charity Because They’re Broke
by Chloe Anagnos | Oct 29, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Volunteering rates have been on the decline since 2003, according to a 2018 analysis of Census Bureau data by the Do Good Institute at the University of Maryland. And at the heart of this decline, the study found, is people’s own hardships, as higher levels of...
The Bogus “Consensus” Argument on Climate Change
by Robert Murphy | Oct 24, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
One of the popular rhetorical moves in the climate change debate is for advocates of aggressive government intervention to claim that “97% of scientists” agree with their position, and so therefore any critics must be unscientific “deniers.” Now these claims have been...
Economic Creationism
by Logan Chipkin | Oct 23, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Creationism has lost the argument in the public square. Any biologist working to understand life-related phenomena has no choice but to take seriously Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. That is, all of the apparent design and purposefulness that we...