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How SpaceX Became The Dutch East India Company Of The Space Age

Free markets permit ambitious people like Elon Musk to bet on a better future and sort the winners from the losers.

Market Failure and the Market Process

Market failure, which I am defining here as a market not reaching the equilibrium condition where quantity supplied equals quantity demanded, is ubiquitous.  Every time we walk int...

Ben Fletcher: The economic debate is moving in our direction – we should seize the opportunity with confidence

The left of politics is seeking, and in some instances succeeding, to persuade voters that free markets have failed, and this failure is the cause of the very low growth in GDP per...

How Moral Panic Creates Black Markets

Nobel Prize-winning economist Alvin E. Roth discusses the moral limits of markets, how bans create black markets, and why harm reduction often works better than prohibition.

What matters: food or free markets?

Most people think the next economic crisis will begin when shortages become obvious and prices start soaring. I disagree. The battle over the next economic Read the full article...

That’s what makes a market [Members]

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The Win-Win World

In daily personal market transactions, the dynamics of mutual gain were once readily apparent. A buyer of meat from a butcher could readily see that he valued the meat more than th...

Cattle industry seeking fair and stable markets

There continues to be debate within the industry about the balance between free markets and government oversight. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says the role of the nation’s largest...

Tariffs on Forced Labor Are Free-Market

Yet another blowout jobs report this morning, with the addition of 172,000 jobs beating all expectations and the prior months revised upward as well. The unemployment rate held ste...

Really, Really Free Market: Hawaiʻi's growing free economy initiative

The Really, Really Free Market is a volunteer-run community event that provides a place for people to donate and take items at no cost, promoting sustainability, economic and food...

COMMENTARY: People are following free markets to other states

The difference between states is not ideology. It is opportunity.

Americans Still Believe in the Founding—and Want Schools To Teach Capitalism

A new report found that 82 percent of Americans want the benefits of free markets taught in high school.

Mike Newton: The markets will force Labour back into line, or the IMF will

I believe philosophically that government exists primarily to facilitate individual opportunity, and the state should not, and cannot, be involved in our lives to the extent it is....

Cuba passes sweeping free-market reforms in biggest economic shift since revolution

Observers on Friday called Cuba's new free-market reforms the most sweeping economic overhaul of the island's communist economy since the Cuban revolution, as the grandson of forme...

Independence, Uncertainty and Markets: Lessons From 250 Years

Those grounded in sound principles are best positioned to prosper.

Oklahoma Protecting Free Markets

The Oklahoma Supreme Court recently invalidated the Energy Discrimination Elimination Act, emphasizing the necessity for pension funds to prioritize beneficiaries over political mo...

Economists have long pushed for prediction markets. The reality is not what they’d hoped for

By Allison Morrow, CNN New York (CNN) — Long before the founders of Kalshi and Polymarket were even born, a handful of economists were getting amped about a novel approach to deali...

Brandon To: Why the Thames Water crisis is a failure of market accountability

Conservatives should not abandon their belief in free markets because of Thames Water. But we should remember a lesson that even Adam Smith would have recognised: capitalism requir...

Prediction markets emerge in Japan, with shopping vouchers

New homegrown startups are finding ways to skirt regulations.

Israeli right's praise of free market capitalism stops at West Bank settlements

The Fed's Obsolete Economic Models Punish Growth

Chairman Kevin Warsh should pursue a slate of reforms to rebuild market confidence.