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Cuba Implements Food Rationing as Its Economy Enters Crisis Mode | José Niño
While it is fashionable to talk about Venezuela and its notorious shortage of basic goods such as toilet paper, flour, and milk, Cuba is now implementing a rationing program to combat its very own shortages of basic goods. A CBC report indicates this program would cover basic items such as chicken, eggs, rice, beans, and soap.
The Campus Counter-Revolution against Liberty | Richard M. Ebeling
Much has been rightly said about recent attacks on conservative, libertarian, and other non-Leftist speakers on college and university campuses around the country. We should also appreciate that this is the renewed counter-revolution, which we have seen for a century, against the philosophical individualist and market-based foundations of the modern world.
This Explains Man's Fatal Attraction to Communism | Paul H. Rubin
"Dan hears the screaming, rushes in, wrestles Alex into the bathtub, and seemingly drowns her. She suddenly emerges from the water, swinging the knife." (Wikipedia summary of the 1987 movie, Fatal Attraction) Favorable views of capitalism were 47% among Gen-Z; 42% among Millennials; and 45% among Generation X.
The Soviet and Nazi Inception: A Married Ideology | Joshua Hofford
The economic practice of the Nazis and Soviets was very similar. Doomed shawls of Soviet Marxism can be replaced with cursed vests of National Socialism, but each hid the rotten mask of the utopian paradise-one created from the hammer-and-sickle and swastika.
For Affordable Housing, Let Supply Meet Demand | Charles Blain
There's a common misconception that conservatives are hostile toward affordable housing. While it's true that the rhetoric surrounding housing and the plight of urban areas can, at times, be downright off-putting, free-market policy prescriptions are the way to make affordable housing a reality for those who need it most.
Why a 15% Interest Cap on Loans Would Hurt the People It's Intended to Help | Anne Fleming
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez want to cap consumer interest rates in an effort to curb "sky high" credit card charges and other forms of predatory lending. Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez should rethink their proposal or risk emboldening the type of lending they hope to stamp out.
"Free" College Would Depreciate the Value of College Degrees Even More | Paul Boyce
For US citizens aged between 18 and 24 years, college enrollment rates reached more than 40 percent in 2017. Of those, nearly one in three (31 percent) drop out entirely. Why should the average taxpayer subsidize this? There is no conclusive evidence to prove that societal gains are worth the cost to the taxpayer.
Don't Blame Capitalism for Surging Student Debt and High Tuition | Doug McCullough, Brooke Medina
American college graduates are suffering financially under the weight of $1.5 trillion of student loan debt. The bulk of that debt stems from worrisome federal student loan practices and ballooning state tuition costs. Approximately 75 percent of college students attend a state university or college with tuition rates set by legislatures or state institutions.
- - George Washington, May 9, 1753
Data Show Poorest Americans Are Benefiting Most from Strong Economy | Adam Michel
In the past year, wage growth was 6.6 percent for the 10th percentile of workers with the lowest incomes, according to the Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers. That's double the 3.3 percent growth rate for workers at the top of the income distribution.
The Myth That the Poor Get Poorer When the Rich Get Richer | Daniel J. Mitchell
I wish my leftist friends understood the Laffer Curve. I also wish they understood the downsides of artificially low interest rates. And the Rahn Curve. And comparative advantage. But perhaps more than anything else, I wish they understood that poor people aren't poor simply because rich people are rich.
My Campaign to Raise the Voting Age Got Me Shadowbanned on Twitter | J.K. Baltzersen
Are social justice warriors at Twitter afraid of my movement to raise the voting age? I debuted as a FEE writer on the first Sunday of March-expressing the contrarian position that the voting age should be raised. I am not alone in my desire to go in that direction.
The Original Jurassic Park and the Hubris of Central Planning | Tyler Curtis
Michael Crichton's techno-thriller Jurassic Park teaches us that no matter how advanced technology becomes, we will never be able to completely control nature. At first, it seemed like a wonderful dream: a park where once-extinct prehistoric beasts would roam as astonished visitors watched in awe.
Economist: Venezuela Is "Atlas Shrugged" in Real Life | Daniel J. Mitchell
I listed the collapse of Venezuela's socialist dictatorship as one of my "hopes" for 2018. That didn't happen, so I included the same hope in my list for 2019. But will it happen? David Asman seems very confident in this clip from a recent interview. I was a bit less hopeful.