Dr. Thomas Sowell was an enormous influence early on my road to becoming an anarcho-capitalist. This is a fantastic documentary on the intellectual giant and well worth the 1hr of your time.

We've heard more in the news from the likes of Bernie Sanders and AOC that 'workers are being exploited' and 'without the people actually building the products the business owners wouldn't have any of the wealth they have' and so on. It seems plausible on its face and I was

I was reading an article recently about video game streamer Tyler "Ninja" Blevins where his manager reported he earned nearly $10MM in 2018 streaming Fortnite. That is an astounding number to me and even more impressive is that it's largely through small contributions done millions of times by his supporters.

Richard Ebeling writes an absolutely epic piece about the the free market. It is one of the best writings in defense of the morality of the free market I've ever read. I will be writing a followup to this piece soon about the single worst, in my opinion, intervention into

The Federal Reserve. Most people have no idea what it is or how it functions, but it is at the root of what's wrong with our economy. The Federal Reserve is why the pack of gum that cost a nickel when your grandpa was a child now cost $1.00.

The minimum wage is an economic and political topic I care about very much. I care  because while supporting a minimum wage is so easy to do from an emotional point of view, it's terribly destructive from a economic perspective. Perhaps if educated about the effects of the policy I

In his State of the Union address, President Obama again voiced his support for a $10.10 minimum wage. We had a fast food strike last fall calling for $15/hr. Two of the Democratic candidates for RI Governor have voiced support for a $10 minimum wage and there's legislation

[T]he real irony here is the idea that the government may need to use its antitrust rules to crack down on patent abuse, when the whole reason that there's a "trust" problem in the first place is that patents are a government granted monopoly. ~Mike MasnickWhile the US Patent

There's a lot of talk regarding price gouging and gas lines in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, and I think it's a topic that really should get more exposure and explanation as to why. I was planning on doing a post talking about how government intervention causes these shortages and

In response to the Virginia-based earthquake that rattled up the east coast on Tuesday, 8/23, we have a Nobel Prize winning economist claiming that we’d have more economic growth if the earthquake had been bigger and had broken more stuff. Despite that statement making me uncomfortable, perhaps there's