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Labor Department’s New Rule Is Bad News for Contractors
The Department of Labor’s new worker classification rule is a blatant power grab designed to make it more difficult for people to work as independent contractors.
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The Housing Crisis Explained—with Mini Fridges
Economics shows up everywhere in life, which means lessons learned in one domain can often be applied to others.
Upzoning: Only Part of the Housing Affordability Fix
Various other regulations hold back production, making upzoning bills useless or even counterproductive.
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Taylor Swift Shows Us Why We Need to Shake Off Intellectual Property
There’s nothing wrong with using a phrase someone else came up with. But there is a lot wrong with coercively preventing such use.
The Tricky Business of Branding
How a brand is perceived by consumers can influence not only market structures, but also culture and even government policy.
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Big Firms Are Hardly Invincible. Just Ask Blackberry
As Blackberry’s story shows, being big is hardly a guarantee of prolonged success in the market.
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Government Funded Science Has a Major Fraud Problem
The system of “checks and balances” in scientific research is completely off-kilter.