Archive: Economy & Jobs
What’s the Difference between Finance, Accounting, and Economics?
Understanding the distinctions between these three fields is an important first step to learning what they are all about.
The IRS Lied
New audits overwhelmingly target the middle class.
FCC’s New Broadband Standard Could Impact Fiber Alternatives
The consequences of playing favorites and why the FCC should not be directing the market.
The Vietnamese People Admire Capitalist Economic Systems
Although still nominally a “socialist” country, Vietnam has been moving steadily in the free-market direction, and the Vietnamese have positive feelings overall toward capitalist countries.
US Manufacturing is Doing Just Fine
Provided the US retains its open posture to the exchange of goods, people, and services, American manufacturing should continue to prosper.
Do Americans Lose If U.S. Steel Gets Sold? Far From It
To reject foreign investment is to impoverish our country—missing out on more capital, productivity, and higher wages for our own workers.
China’s Economic Facade is Cracking
Once the nation was all but expected to eclipse the United States economically, now that trajectory seems unlikely.
Why Product Safety Regulations Should Be Scrapped
Consumer protection laws may be well-intended, but they have dangerous side effects.
Congress Should Reject Biden’s $7.3T Budget Proposal
We don’t need it, we can’t afford it.
The DOE Transformer Steel Rule and its Consequences
Utilities should make the choice of which steel to use in transformers. The Department of Energy should not micromanage.
Debunking All the Main Arguments for Antitrust Laws
Antitrust laws are built on nothing but poor reasoning and misguided apprehensions.
Detroit’s Land Value Tax Experiment
The Motor City considers taxing land value more than property value. Can that reverse the long-time downturn?