Perhaps the greatest example that good policymaking intentions go awry is the minimum wage. Proponents of increasing the minimum wage argue that doing so will help the poor. If we could snap our ...

While many watch the battle for Congress, state-level ballots are where some of America's biggest economic experiments unfold ...

As machines take over routine tasks, work might actually become less robotic. When production is cheap, people can be much more entrepreneurial — and more p ...

The entrepreneur behind the peanut butter cup once worked at Hershey's. In his own basement, he discovered the power of ...

With prices rising and nominal spending running hot, the Fed's own projections and policy rules suggest further tightening ...

The recent scandal at Cambridge revealed how invested the academy is in pushing an ideology — even punishing dissenters who insist on telling the truth. The dust has largely settled on the story of ...

Several weeks ago we asked Starbucks, at its annual meeting, about whether this shift away from straws actually created value for shareholders. Their response? “We have not disclosed the financial ...

On October 14, 1976, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Milton Friedman “for his achievements in the fields of consumption ...

The White House announced last week that it is “taking steps” to ban large institutional investors from buying single-family homes. It’s unclear whether the President has legal authority to do this ...

In January 2002, shortly after the launch of the Starbucks Card, Michael Casey was its CFO and he reportedly gave a novel description of how Starbucks would use those funds. According to Allen Eslekin ...

Washington’s deficit addiction is imposing severe costs on the American people. As investors demand greater compensation for holding federal debt, higher Treasury yields put upward pressure on ...

When Jonathan declares his artistic ambitions are anti-capitalist, it clashes with everything the show has relied on for five seasons. The finale demonstrates better jobs, bigger dreams, and ...