The “affordability crisis” is arguably shaping up to be the top issue for this election season. One can barely go five minutes on social media or television without hearing a…
John Puri writes for National Review Online about an interesting economic development. We heard a lot about eggs in early 2025. The average price per dozen reached an all-time high…
Many progressives include in their critique of free-market capitalism the notion that employers have so much power over workers that they can set wages at subsistence levels. Workers, according to…
Editors at Issues and Insights examine misguided political attacks against so-called price gouging during emergency conditions. Government officials waste no time threatening to crack down on “price gouging” during catastrophic…
Edward Pinto explains why Vice President Kamala Harris’ housing ideas are misguided.
Edward Pinto detects significant problems with Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris’ federal housing policy proposals. A signature feature of Kamala Harris’s housing plan is providing first-time home buyers with $25,000…
Basic Econ 101 tells us: to lower the price of a good, all else being equal, either the demand for the good needs to fall, or the supply of it…
Lewis Dovland writes for the American Thinker about an “economic balloon” that threatens the progressive left’s future. The Laws of Economics are as immutable as the Law of Gravity, but…
Brian Albrecht writes at National Review Online about a problem plaguing a particular branch of economics. While universities exist to teach knowledge that stands the test of time, professors invariably…
The future belongs to the cities that can keep affordable housing growth properly matched to job growth. And that’s proving too difficult for some city governments, especially in states with…
Americans are voting with their feet and many have chosen to migrate to North Carolina thanks to her beautiful economic climate. We have grown so much that we’ve even added…
Richard Vedder writes for the Martin Center about the need for major reform of the college student loan system. A recent defense of student loans by Jason Delisle of the…